Fasting recipe: How to make Sabudana Khichdi

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Sabudana Khichdi is one of the easiest dish to make when you're fasting.

Here's the recipe:

Sabudana Khichdi

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sabudana
• 1/4 cup peanuts
• 4-5 green chillies chopped finely
• I medium potato
• 3 tbsp ghee
• 1-2 sprigs curry leaves
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• Rock salt to taste
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp coconut grated
• A few sprigs coriander leaves, chopped

Method

• Wash sabudana and soak in one-cup water for three to four hours.
• Sabudana grains should be separate and moist.
• Roast peanuts on a hot griddle, peel off the skin and then grind coarsely.
• Peel and wash the potato and cut into cubes.
• Heat ghee in a pan, add curry leaves, cumin seeds and chopped green chillies.
• When cumin seeds crackle, add the potato cubes.
• Cook till the potatoes are soft.
• Add sabudana, scraped coconut and ground peanuts and sauté for four to five minutes, stirring well.
• Sprinkle a little water, add salt and lime juice. Mix well.
• Sprinkle chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.

Photograph Courtesy Khandani Rajdhani

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