Name: Rava Kichadi (Sooji Kichadi)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Semolina (Sooji / Rava) (1 cup = 250 ml); 3.5 cups Water; 1 tsp Salt (adjust to your taste); 1 pinch Turmeric Powder; 1 sprig Curry leaves; 1 handful Coriander Leaves (chopped); 2 tbsp Ghee; ½ cup Beans (finely chopped); ½ cup Carrot (finely chopped); 1 nos Onion (small or medium, chopped); 1 nos Tomato (small or medium, chopped); 2 nos Green chili (adjust to your spice level); 1 inch Ginger (finely chopped); ½ tsp Mustard seeds; 1 tbsp Oil; 1 tbsp Split Bengal Gram (Channa Dal / Kadalaparuppu)

Healthy, Colorful and Flavorful Kichadi which melts in our mouth

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Rava Kichadi is one of the popular South Indian Breakfast. It's a perfect culmination of Rava (Sooji), Vegetables and Ghee. It's colorful, soft, slightly mushy and melt in the mouth. Goes very well with Coconut Chutney and Tiffen Sambar. Let's learn how to make Rava Kichadi with step by step pictures and recipe video.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

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Rava Kichadi is one of the most popular breakfast dish in South India. It’s easy, quick to make but also very healthy and colorful. Its very aromatic and melt in mouth. It’s very popular in South Indian marriages where it’s served as the evening tiffen. We can add the vegetables of your choice to make this yummy kichadi. It goes very well with Coconut Chutney and Tiffen Sambar.

Recipe card for making Rava Kichadi (Sooji Kichadi)

Method with Step by step Pictures:

Finely chop the vegetables and keep it aside. Heat the pan and add the rava and fry it till the raw smell goes off and take it separately. If you get the fried rava in the market then you can skip this step.

In the pan, pour the oil and add the mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds begins to sputter add the channa dal and green chilies and fry it till it becomes light brown color. Add curry leaves as well.

Now add the chopped onions and fry till it becomes transparent. Add Tomatoes and fry for about 2-3 minutes. Add all the chopped vegetables and fry for a minute. You can also optionally add 1 teaspoon of Ghee for better taste.Also add the salt and turmeric powder and mix them well. Keep in a medium flame for 5 minutes so that the vegetables are half-cooked

Now add the roasted rava/semolina and mix well with the vegetables. In a separate pan, add 3.5 cups of water(1 : 3.5 ratio) and heat it till the water starts to boil

Keep the flame in low and add the boiled water to the rava and vegetables and stir well to avoid lumps. Keep in low flame till the rava and vegetables are cooked completely. After 5 minutes, when the rava and vegetables are cooked completely, switch off the flame.