Shaswati Khichdi is a very popular for meal when people have less time to cook. But there are many verities of Khichdi, which certainly takes more time to cook, but has a great different taste all together. Chicken Khichdi is one of them.
Khichdi is a healthy meal, most of the cases it is a one pot meal as well. This case is little different as we have punched chicken also with this recipe.
The addition of chicken not only increases its taste but also increases its nutrition value. It is also very easy to digest food, so good for people with digestion issues.
Chicken Khichdi belongs to Bengali Cuisine. It is a very popular choice during rainy season. Don’t confuse it with Chicken Biryani, they are totally different items.
Bengali people usually likes to eat fried veggies with this dish. Fried potato, fried brinjal, fried egg are some popular combo with this recipe.
Read below for the complete recipe.
INGREDIENTS
1cup-240ml; 1tablespoon – 15ml ; 1teaspoon – 5ml;
Ingredients for marination
- Chicken – 400 gm
- Salt 1 tsp
- Turmeric Powder – 1 + 1/2 tsp
- Red chili powder – 1/2 tsp
- Coriander powder – 1 tsp
- Cumin powder – 1/2 tsp
Ingredients to make chicken
- Onion – 1 big
- Potato – 1 medium
- Green Chili – 3 pieces
- Tomato – 1 small
- Green onion – 1 cup
- Ginger garlic paste – 1 + 1/2 tsp
- Bay leaves – 1 piece
- Dried red chili – 1 piece
- Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
- Sugar – 1 tsp
- Oil – 2 tbsp
Ingredients for Khichdi
- Rice – 3/4 cup
- Masoor dal – 1/2 cup
- Salt – 1 + 1/2 tsp
- Water – 4 cups
- Ghee – 1 tbsp
- Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
Equipment
- Normal Fry Pan
- Normal Pressure Cooker
Notes
How to make Chicken Khichdi
Step 1: First we need to marinate the Chicken. For this take the chick, wash them, then add salt, turmeric, coriander powder, cumin powder and red chili powder to it. Mix them well and set it aside for at-least 30 minutes.
Step 2: Meanwhile, finely chop all the veggies, which are required for the recipe.
Step 3: Now take a pre-heated fry pan and add oil into it. Put the potato pieces into the oil and fry them into little red in color.
Step 4: Using the same oil, add dried red chili, bay leaves, cumin seeds and wait for the splutter.
Step 5: At this time add chopped onion and fry them until brown in color. Once done add ginger garlic paste and fry them for 2 minutes.
Step 6: Now add the chopped tomatoes and green onions, fry them for another 2 minutes. When all veggies are roasted properly, add the marinated chicken on it.
Step 7: Roast the chicken on low flame. Its good practice to use a lid to cover the frypan in between stirring.
Step 8: Once the oil starts coming out from the chicken, it indicates that the chick is cooked. Keep it aside for sometime.
Step 9: Take a normal pressure cooker, add 3+ 1/2 cup of water and wait for boiling. When it starts boiling add washed rice and dal together and wait for boiling again.
Step 10: Now add the cooked chicken inside the cooker, and cook it up to 2 whistle. Our chicken khichdi is now done, switch of the stove and give it some time to release the pressure inside the cooker.
Step 11: Open the lid and add 1 tbsp ghee and coriander leaves for the flavor. Mix it well and keep the lid closed for some more time to get the flavor evenly absorbed.
Serve it hot, enjoy the Chicken Khichdi with some fried veggies along with your family.
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Oh nice… I thought of doing this earlier, didn’t tried yet. Will try for sure.