Sabudana Khichdi in a plate

How to make sabudana khichdi

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Here is the step-by-step recipe with pictures for the perfect sabudana khichdi. Sabudana khichdi is famous fasting food. It is also a good breakfast item.

Sabudana khichdi is made up of potatoes, chilies, peanuts and the main ingredient sabudana, which is also known as sago or topica pearl. It can be served with sweet curd.

Sabudana Khichdi in a plate

Sabudana khichdi

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Sabudana khichdi is famous fasting food. It is also a good breakfast item. Sabudana khichdi is made up of potatoes, chilies, peanuts and the main ingredient sabudana, which is also known as sago or topica pearl. It can be served with sweet curd.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 18 minutes
8 hours
Total Time 8 hours 23 minutes
Course fasting food
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4
Calories 655 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups Sabudana
  • 1 cup Peanuts
  • 2 Potatoes
  • 4-5 Green chilies
  • 4 tablespoon oil
  • 1 teaspoon  Cumin seeds
  • 1 tbsp Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Ghee
  • Coriander
  • Salt to taste

Instructions
 

Soaking the sabudana (Topica pearl) :

  • Take the sabudana or sago in colander. Wash with water until water runs clear. 
  • Transfer the sabudana to a large bowl. Add ½ cup of water to it and cover the bowl. 
  • Let them soak overnight.
  • Next morning, test the sago or topica pearls are ready to cook or not. For that, take 1 topica pearl between thumb and index finger and mash it. If sago mash easily, it is ready to cook. If not mash easily, add ¼ th cup of water in sago, mix well and cover for 15- 20 minutes

Peanut powder:

  • Heat the pan, add 1 cup of peanuts and roast them until they turn light brown. 
  • Transfer roasted peanuts to a bowl or plate and let them cool. Once peanuts are cooled add them to the grinder jar and grind in powder.

Mix soaked sabudana with peanut powder:

  • Add peanut powder in soaked sabudana. Also, add salt to taste and mix well gently with your hands.

Sabudana khichdi:

  • Peel 2 potatoes and chop them. After chopping potatoes add them to saltwater, else they turn black after some time.
  • Take 4-5 large green chilies and chop them into fine pieces. 
  • Heat 4 tablespoons of oil in kadai or pan. Add 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds to it. When cumin seeds start crackling add chopped green chilies, potatoes and a handful of peanuts in it.
  • Mix well and cook for 7-8 minutes on steam on medium flame.
  • Once potatoes are cooked add 1 tablespoon of sugar and a mixture of soaked sabudana peanut powder in it. 
  • Mix well and cook for 4-5 minutes on steam. Add a handful of finely chopped coriander in it. Turn off the flame. 
  • Mix well.
  • Add 1 tablespoon of ghee and mix it gently.
  • Sabudana khichdi is ready. Serve it hot.

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts
Sabudana khichdi
Amount per Serving
Calories
655
% Daily Value*
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Recipe with step by step photos:

Soaking the sabudana (Topica pearl):

1. Take the sabudana or sago in colander. Wash with water until water runs clear. 

2. Transfer the sabudana to a large bowl. Add ½ cup of water to it and cover the bowl. 

3. Let them soak overnight.

Soaking sabudana / topica pearl in a bowl.

4. Next morning, test the sago or topica pearls are ready to cook or not. For that, take 1 topica pearl between thumb and index finger and mash it. If sago mash easily, it is ready to cook. If not mash easily, add ¼ th cup of water in sago, mix well and cover for 15- 20 minutes.

Peanut powder:

  1. Heat the pan, add 1 cup of peanuts and roast them until they turn light brown. 
Roasting peanuts in a pan

2. Transfer roasted peanuts to a bowl or plate and let them cool. Once peanuts are cooled add them to the grinder jar and grind in powder.

ground peanuts

Mix soaked sabudana with peanut powder:

  1. Add peanut powder in soaked sabudana. Also, add salt to taste and mix well gently with your hands.
soaked sabudana and peanut powder mixture

Sabudana khichdi:

  1. Peel 2 potatoes and chop them. After chopping potatoes add them to saltwater, else they turn black after some time.
Chopped potatoes in saltwater

2. Take 4-5 large green chilies and chop them into fine pieces. 

Chopped green chilies

3. Heat 4 tablespoons of oil in kadai or pan. Add 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds to it. When cumin seeds start crackling add chopped green chilies, potatoes and a handful of peanuts in it.

ingredients in a pan

4. Mix well and cook for 7-8 minutes on steam on medium flame.

Mixed chopped potatoes and green chilies in a pan with peanuts and cumin seeds.

5. Once potatoes are cooked add 1 tablespoon of sugar and a mixture of soaked sabudana peanut powder in it. 

Sabudana and sugar added in a pan.

6. Mix well and cook for 4-5 minutes on steam. Add a handful of finely chopped coriander in it. Turn off the flame. 

Finely chopped coriander on cooked sabudana or topica pearl.

7. Mix well.

Mix added coriander with sago.

8. Add 1 tablespoon of ghee and mix it gently.

Adding ghee on cooked sabudana or sago.

9. Sabudana khichdi is ready. Serve it hot.