Simple Urad Dal Kichidi

Recipe source: Friend

Easy too cook and comforting dish.

Ingredients:

• Rice: 1 cup
• Split Urad dal(with skin): 1/2 cup
• Hing: a pinch
• Red chilli powder : 1/4th tsp
• Cumin seeds: 1/4th tsp
• Ghee
• Salt: as need

Procedure:

• Wash rice and urad dal. In a pressure cooker add 1 spoon ghee.Once it is hot add cumin seeds and hing.
• Now add 3 cups water, rice and dal, enough salt and chili powder.
• Pressure cook for 3 visils.

Once pressure goes off, serve hot with chutney and few drops of ghee..

Note: You can add chopped green chillies instead of red chilli powder.

Phool Makhana Kheer

Ingredients:

• Phool Makhana : 1 cup
• Milk: 1/2 litre whole milk
• Ghee: 3tb sp
• Sugar: as needed
• Elachi powder
• Almonds , Cashews: 4 no  each 
• Raisins: 7

Procedure:

• In a sauce pan let milk boil till milk becomes half in the quantity. Take care milk does not burn at the bottom
•  In another pan add ghee, phool makhan and fry it for few min .Take that off and almond and cashews.. Fry them till they are completely done .Now in the same pan add raisins and fry them till they turn into golden color.
• Once phool makhana cools down take half of the phool makhana and half of dry fruits and grind them in to a fine powder.
• Add this powder and remaining phool makhana to the milk and mix well so that no lumps are formed. Boil 5-7 min.
• Add desired quantity of sugar, elachi powder, and remaining dry nuts and mix well and boil it for 2- 3 mins.
• Serve it hot in individual bowls.

Note: Grinding makhana gives thickness to kheer, grinding almonds and cashews gives richness.