Recipe- Perfect For Fasting Sabudana Khichdi

Sabudana khichdi a popular Indian Fasting / Vrat / Upvas recipe made with sabudana pearls (also known as sago or tapioca Pearls), potatoes and roasted peanut powder.
Apart from being a fasting dish, this sabudana khichdi is often prepared in Indian household for breakfast or as an evening snack.

The recipe that is shared here is of Traditional Maharashtrian Style Sabudanayachi Khichdi made in ghee.

Their are only three basic ingredients that goes into making this delicious recipe, those are soaked sabudana (sago / tapioca pearls), potatoes and roasted peanut powder which is called Shengdanyacha kut in Marathi.

Ingredients

1 cups Sabudana (Tapioca/Sago seeds)
2-3 tablespoon Ghee
2 teaspoon Cumin seeds
2 green chillies finely chopped
2 Potatoes thinly sliced
1/2 cup Roasted peanut powder
1 teaspoon Sugar
Salt to taste

Method

- In a kadhai heat ghee, you can even make use of oil.

- Once ghee is hot, add cumin seeds and let them sizzle. Add finely chopped green chilies & thinly sliced potatoes.

- Add a pinch of salt to potatoes. Cover the kadhai with lid and let them cook on low flame.

- Incase you are using boiled potatoes, no need to cook just add potatoes followed by sabudana and other ingredients.

- Once potatoes are cooked, add soaked sabudana (sago seeds), salt, sugar, roasted peanut powder and mix well.

- Cover and let the sabudana (sago seeds) cook for 5-7 minutes on low flame until the pearls becomes translucent. Keep on stirring occasionally.

- Traditional Maharashtrian Sabudana khichdi is ready.

- Serve with yogurt on the side or squeez lemon juice over the khichadi.