Bread Upama

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Chatpati Chat

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Khichdo

Ingredients

400 grams wheat
150 grams tur dal
30 grams dates (dry) (cut into four pieces)
grams peanuts
coconuts(dry) (cut into long chips)
8 to 10 kajus (cashew nuts)
50 grams val beans
50 grams fresh tuver beans
50 grams green peas
A pinch of soda
1 ½ table spoons raisins
Cloves-cinnamon powder
Sugar and jaggery to taste
Ghee accordingly
8 to 10 almonds
½ nutmeg
1 tea spoon cardamom powder
A pinch saffron strands
2 table spoons ginger-chilli paste
Oil
green chillies
½ tea spoon mustard seeds
1 table spoon red chilli powder
½ tea spoon turmeric powder
¼ tea spoon asafetida
¼ cup finely chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste

Instructions

Soak wheat for 6 to 8 hours in sufficient amount of water. Then wash and stain it. Boil in cooker or in a vessel. Grease the vessel, add water, when the water starts boiling, add wheat grains. Stir constantly.
Wash tur dal.
Add dates and peanuts and boil.
Boil tuver and val beans in pressure cooker with out the weight on. Add little citric acid and salt to it, to maintain its colour.
Mix wheat grains , dal and beans. Add cashewnuts, raisins, ½ tea spoon cloves- cinnamon powder.
Remove the desired quantity of mixture to make sweet khichada.
Add sugar and jaggery to it.add saffron(dissolved in water), nutmeg powder, cardamom powder. Heat little ghee, add clove-cinnamon powder(2 to 3 cinnamon and 4 to 5 cloves) to it. Add this seasoning to the khichado.
For spicy khichado add salt chillies and ginger paste.
Heat oil for seasoning and add kashmire chilles,(whole), mustard seeds, turmeric powder, asafetida and cloves-cinnamon powder(2 to 3 cinnamon and 4 to 5 cloves). Khichado should be semi liquid. Decorate with finely chopped coriander leaves.
1 kg wheat khichado can serves 12 persons.

Further Details

Enough for 5 people.

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