Recipes: Kichdi & Aalu vegetable

Recipe: Kichdi

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup rice

• ¾ cup moong dal

• ½ cup jaggery

• ¼ cup fresh coconut, grated

• 1 tbsp pure ghee

• Salt to taste

METHOD

• Cook the rice and dal together till done.

• Then add the jaggery and salt, followed by coconut and finally add the pure ghee just before serving.

• Serve hot.

Recipe: Aalu vegetable with hog plums

INGREDIENTS

• One bunch of aalu or colocasia leaves

• 8 ambade or Goan hog plums

• 1 pinch of asafoetida

• 1 tsp mustard seeds

• 1 cup peanuts

• 4 green chillies, slit

• 2 cups fresh grated coconut

• 2 inch ginger, grated

• ¼ cup jaggery

• 1 tsp of garam masala (optional)

• Salt to taste

METHOD

• Finely chop the aalu leaves.

• In a pan, add coconut oil and tempering of asafoetida, mustard seeds.

• Add the chopped leaves of colacasia and stir well.

• Add ginger, green chillies and peanuts. Pressure cook for five whistles.

• Once nicely cooked, add the fresh grated coconut, jaggery and salt to taste.

• Add garam masala if desired. Mix well.

• Serve immediately.

RECIPES COURTESY: Anjana Amonkar, Porvorim