Mixed Lentils & Vegetables Khichdi is a healthy, wholesome, one-pot dish with lentils, rice, and vegetables, cooked in ghee, turmeric, and red chili powder makes an amazing comfort food!
Turn the Instant Pot to Saute Mode and heat ghee. Add cumin seeds and ginger.
Cook for 30 seconds. Add all the vegetables - carrots, beans, peas, tomato, potato, cauliflower, cabbage, and spinach.
Add turmeric, red chili powder, and salt. Mix well.
Next add the rice and mixed lentils. Add 6 cups of water. Give a quick stir and close the Instant Pot lid with the pressure valve to Sealing.
Press the rice button (12 mins) followed by natural pressure release. Open the Instant Pot and garnish with cilantro. Serve hot with roasted papad and pickle.
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Notes
Substitute the 4 different lentils I used with any lentils you may have on hand. It could be just 1 cup of moong daal or ½ cup of moong daal and ½ cup of chana daal. Just make sure you take 1 cup of lentils.
You can use any combination of vegetables. Just make sure to add about 4 cups of chopped veggies. Frozen mixed vegetables also work well in this recipe.
To make this khichdi with brown rice, simply increase the pressure cook time to 20 minutes.
To make this recipe vegan, simply substitute ghee with cooking oil.
The water ratio in this recipe is 3 times the rice and lentils together which makes a soft, porridge-like consistency for the final dish. To make dry-ish khichdi reduce the water to 4 cups.