Mong Khetchir
January 15, 2013
A healthy dish cooked with rice and green lentils served with pickle or dry vegetable.
Cuisine
Kashmiri
Course
Main Course
Serves
3
Method
Pressure Cooker
Difficulty
Easy
Cook Time
20 minutes
- Cuisine Kashmiri
- Course Main Course
- Serves 3
- Method Pressure Cooker
- Difficulty Easy
- Cook Time 20 minutes
Ingredients
green moong dal
1 cup
mustard oil or cooking oil
4 teaspoon
cumin seeds
1 teaspoon
rice
2 cup
turmeric powder
1/2 teaspoon
ginger powder
1 teaspoon
water
4 1/4 cup
salt
2 teaspoon
Instructions
1. Put 4 teaspoonful of cooking oil (preferably mustard oil ) in a pressure cooker and let it heat, add cumin seeds and roast them well.
2. Add moong dal to the cooker and stir it properly for 2-3 minutes and keep the flame on medium heat
3. Now add 2 cups of rice to the cooker and stir well.
4. Add turmeric powder, ginger powder and salt to it and mix again.
5. Add water.
6. Pressure cook it on high flame, when 1 whistle comes then change to low to medium flame for another 5 minutes. Turn off the heat. Don't release the pressure. Let it come out of its own. Mong khetchir is ready. Serve with pickle, chutney or Aulo Mond (see my Aulo Mond recipe for this).
HEY THERE!