Moong Toor Dal Ni Vaghareli Khichdi – Pepkitchen

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup rice (any short grain rice, I had used jasmine rice)
• 1/4 cup moong dal (yellow moong dal, without skin)
• 1/4 cup toor dal (arhal dal, split pigeon pea, tuvar dal)
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tbsp ghee (clarified butter)
• 2 bay leaf
• 6 whole black pepper (mari)
• 4 cloves (lavang)
• 3 cardamom pod (elaichi)
• 1 cinnamon stick (1/2 inch)
• 1 dry red chili
• 1/2 tsp mustard seeds (rai)
• 1/2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
• 1/4 tsp asafoetida (hing)
• 5 curry leaves
• 1 onion (finely chopped)
• 2 garlic (finely chopped)
• 2 tbsp peanut (optional)
• 1 potato (chopped, optional)
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
• 1 tsp red chili powder (or more if more spice level needed. I had used kashmiri red chili powder)
• 2 tsp coriander cumin powder (dhania jeera powder)
• 2.5 cup (approximately, add more or less as per the consistency of khichdi needed)
• salt (as per taste)