Friday, July 20, 2012

Cornmeal Khichadi

Whenever i get bored of our usual rava upma, i wont even hesitate a minute to make rava khichadi with roasted rava along with plenty of veggies. Some may call this khichadi as khaarabath, for a change this time, i quickly and simply prepared this wonderful looking cornmeal khichadi for our yesterday dinner. You can add any sort of veggies to make this delicious khichadi or else cook just with onions and tomatoes. Serve this colourful khichadi with thick coconut chutney, i can have it anytime.

An excellent,quick and easy breezy breakfast or dinner to enjoy without any hesitation.My mom used to make this khichadi with garlic cloves instead of ginger garlic paste and temper it with whole spices like clove,cinnamon stick,bayleaf and fennel seeds instead of usual tempering spices, this will give definitely a fabulous masala flavour to this simple khichadi.


1cup Yellow cornmeal
1no Onion (chopped)
1no Tomato (chopped)
2nos Green chillies (slit opened)
3nos Garlic cloves (chopped)
2cups Mixed Veggies (carrots,greenpeas,capsicum & zucchini )
Few curry leaves
1no Whole spices (bayleaf,clove,cinnamon stick)
1/2tsp Fennel seeds
Oil
Salt
1/4tsp Turmeric powder
1tsp Ghee

Dry roast the yellow cornmeal until they get warm. Heat enough oil,fry the whole spices,fennel seeds until they turns brown.

Add the chopped garlic cloves,curryleaves and fry for few seconds, add the chopped onions,chopped tomatoes and cook until the onions turns transculent.

Add the mixed veggies immediately,add enough salt,turmeric powder and cook everything until the veggies gets half cooked.

Add two cups of water to the cooking veggies, bring to boil. Once the water starts boiling, add the roasted cornmeal to the boiling water, stir continously and cook until everything gets well cooked.

Finally add the ghee and put off the stove. Serve hot with coconut chutney.

30 comments:

R.Punitha said... Reply To This Comment

Hi Priya ,

Kichadi Looks Delicious !!!

Neat presentation:))

Keep up this GooD work...

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Vimitha Durai said... Reply To This Comment

I make this too and we luv it. Yummy one priya

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

yummy and delicious..

Divya A said... Reply To This Comment

Have had it in hostel during working days, but haven't tasted then!! Must try this home-made version, you know how hostel food must have tasted :)Looks colorful :)

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Shanthi said... Reply To This Comment

colorful dish..good..keep it up.


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Nadji said... Reply To This Comment

Une sorte de polenta indienne avec beaucoup plus de goût et de saveurs.
J'en mangerai avec plaisir.
A bientôt

Julie said... Reply To This Comment

Very delicious & yummy !!

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Mélange said... Reply To This Comment

Super healthy and tempting recipe.

radha said... Reply To This Comment

I do not remember seeing cornmeal here. It really looks good.

Magia da Inês said... Reply To This Comment

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Delicioso!
Bom fim de semana!
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Lifewithspices said... Reply To This Comment

simply love it..

Harini R said... Reply To This Comment

good idea!

Pushpa said... Reply To This Comment

Comforting and delicious.

vrinda said... Reply To This Comment

Looks n sounds delish..I usually make upma with cornmeal

halal foodie said... Reply To This Comment

who would have thought of using cornmeal for khichdi Priya :) nicely done

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Very nutritious khichdi.

Sahasra Recipes said... Reply To This Comment

Looks yummy...nice recipe...

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

The upma/ khicadi look yumo..
Never tried it with cornmeal though.
Love Ash.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

I love this for breakfast, your looks just perfect :)
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hotpotcooking said... Reply To This Comment

Wow!! Cornmeal khichdi. Did not even had a thought of this. Looks interesting

Swathi said... Reply To This Comment

The upma looks delicious Priya.

Torviewtoronto said... Reply To This Comment

kichdi looks wonderful lovely meal

Nisa Homey said... Reply To This Comment

khichidi during monsoons...YUM

Raksha said... Reply To This Comment

wonderful khichdi

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

very nice color and learned new dish with corn meal from you priya....

anjana said... Reply To This Comment

love this upma variation..looks delicious..

Archana said... Reply To This Comment

Love this.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Very healthy breakfast priya:)

Vidhya said... Reply To This Comment

Would love to have this any time.Yummy and filling.

Jaya M said... Reply To This Comment

Cornmeal khichri looks delicious..hugs