INGREDIENTS
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1 cup millet
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½ cup lentils or black-eyed peas any lentils like green gram, red lentil, pigeon peas
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4 cups water
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3 potatoes small sized
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2 carrots
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12 green beans
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3 cloves optional
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2 green cardamom
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½ teaspoon red chili powder
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½ teaspoon coriander seeds powder
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¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
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salt to taste
Ingredients for making tadka for millet khichdi
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1 tablespoon oil
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¼ teaspoon mustard seeds
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¼ teaspoon cumin seeds
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2 whole red chili optional
pinch of hing optional
INSTRUCTIONS
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Take a pressure cooker or an Instant pot inner pot and add soaked and washed lobia and millet.
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Add chopped veggies of your choice, I used potato, carrot, and beans here.
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And add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder, salt, cloves and cardamom.
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Add water and pressure cook for 2-3 whistles for approximately 15 minutes. If using an Instant pot, select pressure cook mode and cook for 8 minutes on high pressure. Make sure to close the VENT.
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Let the pressure release naturally or do force release after 10 minutes.
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Make tadka with all mentioned tadka ingredients.
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Add the tadka to the cooked millet mixture, mix it well and adjust the salt.
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Add the coriander leaves and the millet khichdi is ready to serve