Carrot Khichdi Recipe | khichdi recipe for toddlers
Carrot Khichdi Recipe | khichdi recipe for babies & toddlers with detailed photos and video recipe. khichdi is one of the first baby solid foods that one will tend to try. carrots being most important vegetable for babies, I prefer making this carrot khichdi at least once or twice a week for my son.
along with carrots, we can also add sweet pumpkin, pumpkin, or any other vegetables. Just 1 or two vegetable which you have tested with your baby. choose vegetables that is mashable. vegetables like beans, drumstick cannot be mashed completely and may cause choke.
In this recipe, i have not mashed the rice so much as my son is now 2 years plus and can eat solids. If for babies, mash it well. DO NOT GRIND THE FOOD after cooking. this was suggested by a doctor not to grind the food after cooking. mash it well with masher or with your hands.
Not only for kids, adults can also have. I love this khichdi recipe very much. whenever my husband does not turn up for lunch, it is khichdi for me and my son. we both love it. i make it mildly spiced, sometimes very little spicy so that he takes it comfortably.
also, Check out the recipes for babies and toddlers. apple suji halwa, papaya puree, wheat apple porridge, apple oats porridge, sweet pumpkin palak khichdi, apple egg puree, apple banana puree, carrot banana wheat pancakes and many more recipes, green gram rice, pink rice, palak rice, ragi milk porridge, chicken biryani for babies, sprouted ragi flour for babies.
Carrot Khichdi Recipe – Quick video recipe:
Carrot Khichdi Recipe | khichdi recipe for babies & toddlers
carrot khichdi recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice
- 1/4 cup tur dal
- 2 tsp ghee
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 spring curry leaves
- 10-15 nos shallots
- 1 large tomato
- 2 no carrots sliced
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp chilli powder
- 1 pinch asafoetida
Instructions
- wash and soak rice and dal in water for 30 minutes
- Heat ghee in a pressure cooker, splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds. Add curry leaves, chopped shallots, chopped tomatoes
- Add sliced carrot to it
- fry for 2 minutes in medium flame.
- Add the soaked rice to this. add turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt needed
- Add water in 1:4 ratio
- Close and pressure cook for 4-5 whistles. If making it for babies, cook for more whistles. Open and mash it well
- serve warm with a dash of ghee.
Carrot Khichdi Recipe – Step wise description
- wash and soak rice and dal in water for 30 minutes
- Heat ghee in a pressure cooker,
- splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds. Add curry leaves, chopped shallots, chopped tomatoes
- Add sliced carrot to it
- fry for 2 minutes in medium flame.
- Add the soaked rice to this
- add turmeric powder, chilli powder, asafoetida and salt needed
- Add water in 1:4 ratio
- Close and pressure cook for 4-5 whistles. If making it for babies, add 5 glass water and cook for more whistles.
- Open and mash it well
- serve warm with a dash of ghee.
