Have you heard of the dish Beetroot kichadi? This colorful and yummy dish made with beets, and yogurt is yet another part of the delicious sadya. This dish is also very healthy and a smart way to get picky kids to eat beets. Beets as you know , is a rich and nutritious vegetable which should be included in our diets. This dish needs very few ingredients and is very easy to make.
The main effort is grating the beets .If you have a food processor , even that can be easily done. Once the grated beets are ready , all you need is yogurt grren chillies and tempering it with oil mustard and curry leaves.
Beetroot Khichadi
A traditional and delicious dish made with grated beets and yogurt usually made on festivals and goes well with rice and traditional sadya
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Ingredients
- 2 beets grated
- 3 green chillies finely cut
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 5 cups yogurt beaten
Instructions
- Take a deep bottomed pan and heat about 3-4 tsp oil.
- Splutter mustard seeds and add the grated beets and green chillies.
- Sautée for a while.Let it cook for a few minutes in the steam by closing the lid and reducing the flame .
- When it is half-cooked , add salt and curry leaves.
- Fry for 2 more minutes and switch off flame and wait for the beets to cool.
- Meanwhile beat the yogurt to a smooth fluid form.
- Add a little water to adjust consistency.
- Add the cooked and cooled beets to the yogurt and mix it well
- .Enjoy this dish with rice or rotis (wheat bread).
Megala
Interesting recipe! Looks beautiful !!
InspiresN
Thank you Megala, the color makes it look pretty:)
savvysouthindian
Looks delicious! Beautiful color!
InspiresN
Thank you so much Latha!
Liz | Bubble Tea For Dinner
Such a beautiful colour! You're sure kids will like it? OK I will totally try this on mine, mwahaha (and if they don't like it, I'll eat it all, it looks like it would make very good sandwiches)
InspiresN
My kids love it but they are not little any more 🙂 and they like beets anyway so maybe I assumed all kids will like ..yes it would go well with a sandwich !Thank you Liz!
Lavs Raj
My kids don't like beetroot though I'm a big fan.. i will give this a try... may be they'll like this.. thanks for sharing!! 😀
InspiresN
Hope they'll like it 🙂 Thank you !
chukkiskitchen
Beetroot is amazing for health. i am gonna make this some day 🙂
InspiresN
Yes it is very healthy and sure do give it a try and see how you like it !
chukkiskitchen
Yes. Will have to get beetroot in the weekly grocery
InspiresN
🙂
Sumith
Loves it's colour. Very vibrant and sounds delicious!
InspiresN
Yes that's right the color is quite vibrant.It also tastes yum! Thank you!