Sabudana Khichadi

Sabudana khichadi, a dish made of tapioca pearls, potatoes and groundnuts. It’s a dish I grew up eating as fasting food!

Now when I say fast food, that doesn’t mean it’s like burgers, sandwiches and chips. In India, there are some religious days we have a concept of observing a fast but in a nutshell, it’s a concept of a pure feast.

Sabudana Khichadi, an utterly delicious, carb-loaded feast on a fasting day!

On these fasting days we are not supposed to eat wheat, rice instead we eat potatoes, sweet potatoes and tapioca. Things which are utterly delicious and loaded with carbohydrates. Hence I call the fasting day,  A FEASTING DAY! 😉 😀

My mum and dad are very religious and they do observe a lot of fasts, albeit they don’t eat this fasting food on all those days.

However, growing up my mum did cook an amazing spread on fasting days and one of them was always this Sabudana Khichadi the other was Ratyala Cha Khees amongst other delicious treats.

I don’t observe fasts that often and when I do I don’t eat anything because it’s fasting right! 😉 But I do make these delicious dishes mostly on weekend brunch or as an early supper.

This dish is gluten-free, has a crunchy n soft texture and oh it is absolutely delicious.

How to soak Sabudana for Sabudana Khichadi?

The key to good Sabudana Khichadi is how you soak the tapioka and that is always a tricky thing. It also depends on the variety. The way I soak might not work for everyone but do try it because I have lived in 3 different cities and used a lot of different varieties of tapioca pearls. So far this method hasn’t disappointed me.

So this is how you make this dish.

Ingredients:

• 250g tapioca pearls/ sabudana
• 250g boiled potatoes cut in cubes
• 3 tbsp roasted crushed groundnuts or peanuts
• 2 or to taste green chillies finely chopped
• 2 or to taste green chillies sliced
• ½ lime
• 1 tsp sugar
• Salt to taste
• ½ tsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp ghee
• 1 ½ tbsp oil
• Coriander for garnishing