East Indian
Bhuni Khichuri (Rainy-Day Rice-Lentil One-Pot)
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Bhuni Khichuri (Rainy-Day Rice-Lentil One-Pot) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Dry roast the moong dal in a pan until fragrant and lightly golden, then rinse it together with the rice.
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Heat the mustard oil in a heavy pot, add the bay leaf, dried red chilies, cumin seeds, and whole garam masala, and let them sizzle.
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Add the cauliflower, potato, peas, and carrot and fry for 4-5 minutes until lightly browned at the edges.
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Stir in the ginger paste, turmeric, and chopped tomato, and cook until the tomato softens.
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Add the rinsed rice and dal along with the sugar and salt, and stir to coat everything in the spices.
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Pour in the water, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the rice and dal are soft and the pot has a soft, porridge-like consistency, about 25 minutes.
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Rest for 5 minutes off the heat before serving hot, ideally on a rainy afternoon.
Watch how to cook Bhuni Khichuri (Rainy-Day Rice-Lentil One-Pot)
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Serve it with
A East Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Bhuni Khichuri (Rainy-Day Rice-Lentil One-Pot), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Bhuni Khichuri (Rainy-Day Rice-Lentil One-Pot) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 380 kcal
- Protein
- 10 g
- Carbs
- 56 g
- Fat
- 13 g
- Fiber
- 5 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 520 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Bhuni Khichuri (Rainy-Day Rice-Lentil One-Pot) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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