Ingredients
½ cup rice or millet of your choice
½ cup red lentil (masoor dal)
1 cup chopped spinach
1 small tomato, chopped
1 inch ginger, grated
¼ tsp turmeric
½ tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp ghee or oil
Salt
curry leaves finely chopped 1 tsp
How to make it:
Add the rice, lentil, tomato, ginger, turmeric, salt and enough water to a pressure cooker or saucepan. Cook until soft. Stir in the spinach and cook for another few minutes. Temper the cumin in ghee or oil, once it splutters add curry leaves, mix well and pour it over the khichdi. Serve it with amla pickle or amla raita to get most of the iron from spinach, you need Vitamin C, which amla provides.