Theme: Course Wise Meal from any State - Maharashtra/ Lunch Dishes Dish: Vaal Dal Khichdi Day 2 of BM# 29 and I’m doing ‘Maharashtrian cuisine-Lunch dishes’ theme. Today’s dish is also another one-pot meal, but this time its a legume and rice combination, Vaal Dal Khichdi. Nupur @ One hot Stove is one of my favorite bloggers and she happens to be a Maharashtrian. So I have perused her blog a lot for this week’s theme 🙂
When I saw her post for Vaal Khichdi, I went out and bought Vaal dal to make the dish. Vaal is slightly bitter, but the addition of tamarind and jaggery tames it a little bit in this dish. My 5 year old didn’t dig the bitterness, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. So thanks to Nupur for introducing a new legume. Here’s the picture of Vaal dal.
I changed the proportions a little bit to suit my taste and I made the khichdi in an open pot instead of the pressure cooker. Nupur suggests soaking both rice and dal for 30 minutes. But I used jasmine rice and I soaked it only for 10 minutes and soaked vaal dal for about 2 hours.
