Northeast Indian
Galho (One Pot Rice, Greens and Chicken Porridge)
Galho (One Pot Rice, Greens and Chicken Porridge) is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the carb everything else is eaten with. 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
- 1 cup rice
- 1/4 cup split yellow moong dal
- 1 lb chicken, bone-in pieces
- 3 cup mustard greens, chopped
- 1 tbsp ginger, sliced
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 green chili
- 5 cup water
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Rinse the rice and moong dal together and set aside.
- Put the chicken pieces in a heavy pot with the ginger, garlic, and water, and bring to a boil.
- Skim off any froth, then cover and simmer until the chicken is nearly tender, about 15 minutes.
- Stir in the rinsed rice and dal and cook uncovered over low heat, stirring occasionally so it doesn't stick, until the grains break down into a thick, soft porridge, about 20 minutes.
- Add the chopped greens and slit green chilies for the last 5 minutes and season with salt.
- Serve hot straight from the pot; this one pot rice porridge is genuinely quick, everyday food in Naga and Arunachali homes alike, not a special occasion dish.
Serve it with
A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Galho (One Pot Rice, Greens and Chicken Porridge), 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
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. Galho (One Pot Rice, Greens and Chicken Porridge) 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Pulses, Meat or fish, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Galho (One Pot Rice, Greens and Chicken Porridge) takes about 40 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.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on rice, chicken, and moong dal.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from Northeast India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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