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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Sabudana Khichadi

Friends,

Lets start today for how to make another fasting food item Sabudana/SAGO Khichadi./ साबुदाणा  खिचडी.
Sabudana Khichadi

In India,Specially in holy days like Shravan (Hindu Calender) ,No of people ritually follows  fasting  all over India.Every state has its specific fasting food..

In India Festivals and fasting walks like hand in hand.Indian household people usually named fasting as Upvas (उपवास ) or Vrat (व्रत ).In state like Maharashtra, fasting food like sabudana , rajgir flour (राजगिऱ्याचे  पीठ ), fruits are largely consumed by people.

The sabudana is largely used by Indians in fasting days.
Sabodana is made from raw tapioca roots, an underground potato like variety. These tapioca roots (shakkarkand) are crushed in a tank and its milk/juice is extracted and stored for few days which changes its nature and turns into light paste... It is then poured into machine or hand sheets or big steel sheets with holes to produce white granules from the paste. Thus the white granules or small white balls are formed, which are dried and these dried granules/balls are called as sabudana.

So lets start with our basic ingredients                      
for two people
soaked sabudana 2 cup
3 green chili , 2 potato
2 tsp cumin
6 tsp roasted grated peanuts ( शेंगदाण्याचे कूट )
salt oil and for garnishing yogurt (दही )
procedure:-
Soak Sabu overnight.Mix it with peanuts and add pinch of salt.Keep it aside.
Further Take 1 tsp oil in pan and Cumin seeds to it.Then add chopped green chili.keep it cover for 5 to 6 sec. In tadka , add finely sliced potato's.Saute them .Put pinch of salt and cover pan with lid near about 10 min till potato cooked n hence became soft n golden brown in color.



Potato ,chili,cumin,salt
 Now after 10 min , remove cooked potato's in small bowl ,in same pan ,add 1 tsp of oil and mix sabu in it. Heat and saute the mixture till sabu turns whitish to lil bit of off white in colour.

Grains are still white in color
Add potatoes too.Now continuously saute mixture untill sabu grains turns off whitish.
This indicates your Khichadi is ready.


Dish is ready
Serve hot with ice cooled yogurt.








In stead of green chillies you can add red chilli's too or red chill powder also.

Or if you do not have yogurt ,serve this with lemon.


Hot khichadi with chilled yogurt...Hmmmmm !!!!!!!!!


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