Sabudana Khichadi | Authentic Maharashtrian Style Khichadi | Sabudana Khichadi recipe

Cooking Time: 20min (Prerequisite - soak the Sago at least for 7 hrs)

Ingredients for Vada:

Item	Quantity
Sago or Shabudana	1 Cup (before socking)
Potato	2 In Quantity
Cumin seeds	1 Tablespoon
Roasted Peanuts	1/4 Cup
Coriander	3  Tablespoons finely chopped
Green chili or Red Chili Powder	5 in quantity or 1 Table Spoon
Oil or ghee or butter	5 Tablespoons
Sugar	1 Tablespoon
Salt	As per test

Recipe: 

1. We need to wash the sago once and then, we need to start the procedure of socking the sago in water. We need to add 2 cups of water in one cup of sago, keep it with water for one hour, after that strain it and remove the excess water from sago, cover it and keep it aside for about 6 hours.
2. It's lot more simple recipe, we just need to peel off the potatoes and make the small chips out of it. We need to cut the chips into small potions, its optional step, we can skip it and cut it in the pan itself, how? when it gets cooked.
3. Let's start to make the khichadi, heat up the pan and add oil or ghee or butter in it. If we are using butter try to add half oil half butter, it will prevent the butter from burning.
4. Add some cumin seeds, potato chips, finely chopped green chilli and mix it well. Cover it and cook it for a min, again mix it and cook it till potato get cooked. How do we get that? take a slice and try to break it. We don't want any crunch in a single slice of potato.
5. Now we can break the slice of potato, if we want and if we didn't do it previously. It's totally optional, if we want to do that, we can use the spoon from which we are mixing it currently.  Just break the slice in 2 pieces. 
6. Now add the sago or shabudana, which we soaked for 7 hrs. Add a spoon of sugar, salt as per test and 4 tablespoons of crushed roasted peanuts.
7. Mix it and cover it for a min on lower flame, again mix it and cover it for a min. And the good news is here our khichadi is ready to eat. Have fun! 😍

Tips:

1) Try to remove the cover of peanuts before adding it into the mixer. It reduces the test of Khichadi.

2) To increase the test of khichadi try to add a pinch of salt at the stage of cooking potato. The potato will get salted and tests very nice.

           

Sabudana khichadi is a traditional lunch or dinner item on the fasting day having about 220 calories in a dish. In other parts of India, Sabudana Khichadi is going to serve on the day of fasting.

 Sabudana Khichdi is one of the main fasting dishes from western India, especially from the regions of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. Isn't that so easy to make?

By the Tradition of Maharashtra before having it needs to serve it to god as Bhog, then only we can have it. Mostly food which we have on the day of fast must 

It is often served with curd and is best eaten fresh. Some people are used to eat the curd with having sugar in it. Sago is considered an instant energy booster as they contain high carbs.

As per the tradition, people used to have it during Navratri, Janmashtami and Ekadashi. During fasting days, many ingredients like lentils, certain spices, garlic and onion are not consumed. So sabudana khichadi is the most likely option in India.

There is a variety of other food, which we have on the day of fasting like sabudana khichdi, Sabudana Vada, varicha bhaat, potato chips, milk, fruits etc. So try this simple recipe at your home and enjoy. Comment us your experience of this recipe.