Healthy Indian Risotto (Multigrain Khichdi)

Recipe From Health Food Desi Videshi

PS: My notes are in the underlined portion

9 whole grains in one dish and many more vegetable included ... Wild rice/ Black Rice + brown rice broken basmati (tukda), pearl barley, chana daal (split chickpea), split black gram with skin, whole mung bean, horse gram and masoor dal (Can basically add any kind of dal or grain you have on hand)

Ingredients.

(5-6 servings) 

• all the above stated grains and lentils mixed in equal quantities ...2 cups (I used half a cup/choti katori but that too made 5-6 servings. So change the quantity of all the ingredients below accordingly) 
• broccoli and cauliflower cut in florets 4 cups each (I didnt use cauliflower)
• green peas 2 cups
• freshly made coarse paste of tomatoes 2 cups
• carrots medium sized 2 nos.
• medium sized celery sticks 3-4 nos. 
• spring onions lower halves 3-4 nos.
• garlic cloves 5-6 nos.
• cumin seeds 2+1 tsp
• freshly crushed black pepper corns 1 tbsp
• red chilly powder 2 tsp
• turmeric powder 2 tsp 
• whole black cardamom 2 nos.
• bay leaves 2-3 nos.
• ghee or any oil of choice 2+1 tbsp
• salt to taste 

procedure...

• First of all chop the celery, carrot, spring onions and garlic finely.
• (I soaked the dals and grains for about 8 hours. If you do not soak them then you will need to add a lot more water when cooking) 
• Heat the ghee in a pan and throw in the cumin seeds and wait till they crackle. Add the black cardamom and bay leaves and cook till they all become wilted and aromatic. Add the above chopped celery-carrots-garlic mixture...stir fry for a while ...(Do not overcook it. Just cook for 5-7 mins on medium heat.)  
• Now add the tomato paste, salt and turmeric powder, the crushed black pepper corns and the red chilly powder too.. and add this mixture to the cooker and and then add more water, and gave it a quick whistle or two.

• Meanwhile , place a kadhai on the other side of the stove for the broccoli and the peas to be stir fried ... while the khichdi is cooking in the pressure cooker. 
• The cooked grains and pulses should look plump and soft when cooked ..not very mushed up but cooked thoroughly . 

• So heat just a tbsp of ghee in a kadhai , add a tsp of whole cumin seeds and dunk in all the cut florets into it to fry ... add the green peas too, I also added some more chopped garlic and red chilly powder to this mixture as it makes the khichdi very flavorful....

• Add the stir fried vegetables to the cooked khichdi and mix well .

Just mix well and serve immediately ... a nice raita and some roasted papad is all that is needed . But i liked it by itself , with plain curd.