How to Spring Delicious Sabudana Khichdi

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Sabudana Khichdi. How to make Sabudana Khichdi?-Ideal for fasts this preparation of soaked sago tossed with spices and boiled potatoes is an all-time hit. Sago pearl khichadi is one of most widely preferred and delicious Indian breakfast and fasting food for festivals like Navratri and Shivratri. Sago khichdi can be prepared using two types of sabudana (sago), large and small.

It is an easy snack and is a good recipe to be made during fasting days but it requires little experience to get the perfect nonsticky texture in the sabudana pearls.

Sabudana khichdi, which loosely translates to "tapioca mixture," is a delightfully chewy Maharashtrian pilaf studded with the crunch of toasted peanuts, creamy bits of potato, and the occasional cumin seed A hit of sweetness is balanced with salt, lemon and the alternating flames of ginger and green chile, and then everything is showered with a generous amount of chopped cilantro The.

Sabudana khichdi, with tapioca, peanuts, potatoes and spices.

You can have Sabudana Khichdi using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sabudana Khichdi

1. Prepare 1 cup of sabudana pearls.

2. It’s 2 of potatoes small medium size   chopped.

3. It’s ½ cup of peanuts roasted and corsely broken.

4. It’s 8 10 of / curry leaveskadi patta (optional)-.

5. You need 1 tsp of ginger grated  (optional).

6. Prepare 1 of green chili red chili or   chopped.

7. It’s 1 tsp of cumin seed.

8. You need 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.

9. It’s 2 tbsps of oil.

10. You need as required of salt.

11. It’s ½ to 1 tsps of sugar as required.

12. You need ½ to 1 tsps of lemon juice or as required (optional).

13. Prepare ¼ cup of corriander chopped (optional).

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Sabudana Khichdi is a dish commonly made in India during the fasting season of Navratri.

Sago/tapiocal pearls are tossed together with spices, potatoes to make a comforting and flavorful meal.

This khichdi is best enjoyed with a side of yogurt.

Sabudana Khichdi step by step

1. Soak sabudana 4-5 hours. Drain the sabudana very well and keep aside in a bowl..

2. In a pan dry roast the peanuts till browned and when cooled coarsely break them.

3. Mix the coarsely roasted peanuts, salt and sugar with the drained sabudana..

4. Now heat the oil. Fry the cumin till they crackle and add the curry leaves, chilies and turmeric powder fry for half a minute and then add the grated ginger..

5. Add potatoes and stir till the raw smell of the ginger goes away and till potatoes are cooked. You can add a few spoons of water if required..

6. Add the sabudana and keep stirring the mixture..

7. When the sabudana loses their opaqueness and starts becoming soft, they are cooked. Dont overcook as they might become lumpy and hard..

8. Lastly add grated coconut, mix well. Close the fire..

9. While serving garnish sabudana khichdi with coriander leaves and drizzle with some lemon juice and serve sabudana khichdi hot..

Sabudana Khichdi is one of the most popular comfort foods in India.

It is often served with crunchy roasted peanuts and sautéed with potatoes using spices with generous squeeze of lemon.

It has a chewy texture and takes on the taste of its accompaniments.

It is known as Sabudana Usal in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.

Sabudana Khichdi is one one those Indian comfort food recipes that I could eat ALL DAY.