Red lentils and rice (Kitchuri)

My mum would make this #easy #rice with #red #lentils dish called #kitchuri whenever it was a rainy day. This is a filling recipe as the red lentils is has lots of protein. This is also a perfect recipe for vegetarians. I love eating this rice with fried eggplant, eggs, and a tomato salad.

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% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Step 1

If you have time, soak the rice and lentils for around 20 mins. But if you don’t have time you can skip this step.

Step 2

Put basmati rice and red lentils in the pot, add water and wash really well 2-4x

Step 3

Put pot on stove on medium heat and add water, sliced onions, salt, turmeric, garlic and ginger paste and a couple of bay leaves

Step 4

Give it a good stir and taste the water to make sure it’s the seasoning is right for you

Step 5

Wait for food to come to rolling boil once it comes to rolling boil stir(this should be more of a flipping motion as to not break up the rice and make it mushy) it again and then turn the temperature down to the lowest possible setting

Step 6

*if you can’t find the Indian bayleaf don’t stress, just leave it out

Step 7

*to make this recipe vegan, replace ghee with a non-dairy butter

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