Ingredients

• 1 cup - rice
• 1/2 cup - green gram
• 1 onion, chopped
• 3 green chillies
• 1 tsp - ginger garlic paste
• a few curry leaves
• 10 to 12 cashew nuts
• 1/2 tsp - shah jeera (caraway seeds)
• 3 cloves
• 3 cardamom
• 3 (nos) - 1 inch cinnamon sticks
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 tbsp - clarified butter
• salt to taste

How to Make Moghlai Khichdi

• Wash and soak rice and green gram together.
• Make a powder of the dry spices, except bay leaf.
• Make a coarse paste of onion, chilies, ginger and garlic. Keep aside.
• Heat ghee in a pan and add the onion paste and bay leaf.
• Fry till golden brown.
• Add the spices powder, curry leaves and mix.
• To this, add 3 cups of water and bring to a boil.
• Add the soaked rice and green gram.
• Add the salt and cook till done.
• Garnish with cashew nuts fried in butter.