East Indian
Bhuni Khichuri (Rainy-Day Rice-Lentil One-Pot)
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
- 1 cup rice
- 1 cup yellow moong dal
- 1 cup cauliflower florets
- 1 potato
- 1/2 cup green peas
- 1 carrot
- 4 tbsp mustard oil
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 dried red chilies
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 pinch whole garam masala (cinnamon, cardamom, cloves)
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 tbsp ginger paste
- 1 tomato
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1.5 tsp salt
- 5 cups water
How to cook it
- Dry roast the moong dal in a pan until fragrant and lightly golden, then rinse it together with the rice.
- 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.
- Add the cauliflower, potato, peas, and carrot and fry for 4-5 minutes until lightly browned at the edges.
- Stir in the ginger paste, turmeric, and chopped tomato, and cook until the tomato softens.
- Add the rinsed rice and dal along with the sugar and salt, and stir to coat everything in the spices.
- 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.
- Rest for 5 minutes off the heat before serving hot, ideally on a rainy afternoon.
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 | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| 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
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Pulses, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
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.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on rice, moong dal, and potato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from East 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
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.