Spinach Khichdi: Easy, quick, one nutritious pot meal made with a pressure cooker. Its ideal for babies from 10 months after introducing rice, toor dal and spinach separately. It's effortless to make when you pressed for time but makes a healthy wholesome meal for your baby & whole family as well. Do check out other healthy moong dal Khichdi (with veggies) & spinach rice for babies from my archive.
Here is how to make an easy spinach khichdi recipe for babies, toddlers, and kids.
Spinach Khichdi Recipe for Babies, Toddlers, and Kids
Spinach Dal Khichdi - A quick, comforting meal made with rice, lentils, and spinach. Nutritious and iron food for kids.
Calories
Ingredients
- Rice - ½ cup
- Toor Dal - ½ cup
- Spinach - 2 cups chopped
- Big Onion - 1 small sized
- Green chilli - ½ optional
- Ginger - ½ inch
- Garlic - 4 cloves
- Garam masala powder - ½ tsp optional
- Pepper powder - ¼ tsp
- Turmeric powder - a pinch
- Hing - a generous pinch
- Lemon juice- 1 Tsp
- Water - 4 cups
- Salt - as required
To temper
- Ghee - 2 tbsp
- Cumin seeds - ½ tsp
Instructions
Preparation
- Slice onions chopped ginger and garlic finely. Wash and roughly chop spinach into bite-size pieces. Slit green chilies. Set aside.
- Wash rice and toor dal together and soak it in warm water for 20 minutes.
Method
- In ½ teaspoon of ghee, fry the spinach and green chili together until it shrinks. Switch off the flame once done.
- Grind spinach and green chili together to a fine paste. Set aside.
- Heat a pressure cooker with ghee. Add cumin seeds. Let it crackle. Then add onions and chopped ginger and garlic. Saute them nicely until golden brown.
- Once onions become transparent, Add spinach puree, turmeric powder, pepper powder, garam masala powder(if using) and required salt. Give a quick stir.
- Then add soaked rice & toor dal mix well. Give a quick stir.
- Add required water and bring it to a boil. Then close the lid of pressure cooker and cook everything in a medium flame for three to four whistles. Once the pressure releases, open the cooker, add lemon juice and fluff the rice with a spoon slowly, top with ghee if required.
Nutrition
Serving: 2g
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Preparation :
1. Slice onions, finely chop the ginger and garlic. Wash and roughly cut spinach into bite-size pieces. Slit green chilies. Set aside.
2. Wash rice and toor dal together and soak it in warm water for 20 minutes.
Method:
1. In ½ teaspoon of ghee, fry the spinach and green chili together until it shrinks. Switch off the flame once done.
2. Grind spinach and green chili together to a fine paste. Set aside.
3. Heat a pressure cooker with ghee. Add cumin seeds. Let it crackle. Then add onions and chopped ginger and garlic. Saute them nicely until golden brown.
4. Once onions become transparent, Add spinach puree, turmeric powder, pepper powder, garam masala powder(if using) and required salt. Give a quick stir.
5. Then add soaked rice & toor dal mix well. Give a quick stir.
6. Add required water and bring it to a boil. Then close the lid of pressure cooker and cook everything in a medium flame for three to four whistles. Once the pressure releases, open the cooker, add lemon juice and fluff the rice with a spoon slowly, top with ghee if required.
Serve the spinach khichdi with curd. Tastes delicious!
Notes :
- You could make this spinach dal khichdi with your choice of vegetables too.
- You can replace toor dal with moong dal.
- Make sure to introduce everything separately before you try this khichdi.
- Always serve spinach khichdi hot or warm. Otherwise, it will become dry.
- Any regular cooking rice can be used to prepare this rice.
- Skip salt for babies below one year.
- For 1 cup of rice and ½ cup of toor dal, 4 cups of water are sufficient with the prior soaking of rice and dal for 20 minutes. Add 5 cups of water if you want it too mushy.
- Skip green chili, garam masala, and ginger for small babies if they can't tolerate them.
- Always check with your pediatrician before introducing any new food.
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