Sabudana Kichdi

Sabudana is called as tapioca or pearl sago. It is available in most Tesco stores in Asian section or in any Indian store.

The Khichdi is a very common and well known traditional Marathi dish. It can be eaten anytime of the day- breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner. Some people have it on a fasting day.

Ingedients:-
Sabudana 1 cup
Potatoes 2 (boiled) (Optional)
Roasted peanuts 1/2 cup (do not remove the skin)
Sunflower Oil 2 tbsp
Cumin seeds (jeera) 1 tsp
Green chillies 2
Sugar 1 tspn (optional)
Coconut (grated) 2 tbspns (optional)
Lemon juice 1 tbspn (or as per taste)
Salt

Soaked Sabudana

Roasted ground peanuts

 

 

Method

Preparation:-

1. Wash and soak the sabudana in water for 5- 10 mins.
2. Drain it and keep it covered for 5-6 hours or overnight
3. Coarsely grind the peanuts in a grinder. Remember we don't want very fine powder.
4. If you are using the optional potatoes, skin them and dice them in cubes.
5. By now the sabudana should look fluffy and soft.

Cooking:-

1. Mix the ground peanuts, sabudana, salt and sugar in a mixing bowl.
2. Heat oil in a pan.
3. Add the cumin seeds, once they start spluttering, add the chopped green chillies and potato cubes.
4. Saute them for 2 mins and turn the flame off.
5. Now add the sabudana mixture into the pan and lightly mix it with the potatoes and add the lemon juice.
6. Shift this mixture into a microvaveble bowl , cover the bowl and cook it in the microvave for 3 mins on full power.
7. Keep it in the microwave for next two mins.
8. Garnish it with few coriendar leaves and grated coconut.
9. Serve hot.

If you don't have a bowl big enough to fit all the sabudana in, you can do it in two / three lots. (you might have to adjust the time based on the power of your microvave and amount of sabudana cooking )

  

Ready to eat