Khichuri

Ingredients

• white fragrant rice (e.g Bashmati rice or short grained Pilau rice)
  1 cup
• green gram or red split lentils (rice : lentil should be 1:1)
  1 cup
• split chickpeas (preferably dried Bengal variety) (optional)
  ½ cup
• garden peas (optional)
  ½ cup
• butter preferably ghee
  2 tablespoons
• turmeric powder (to give the dish a vibrant yellow colour)
  ½ teaspoon
• green chilis slit in the middle

  de-seeded if heat is not desired
  2 whole
• salt according to taste
  1 unit
• of water for boiling
  4 cups
• bay leaves
  2 unit
• green cardamom pods
  4 unit
• cloves
  4 whole
• sticks of cinnamon 1 inch long
  2 unit
• cumin seeds
  ¼ teaspoon
• cm piece of ginger

  finely chopped
  2 unit
• or 2 small onions

  thinly sliced
  1 medium
• butter preferably ghee
  2 tablespoons
• bunch coarsely chopped fresh coriander leaves
  1 unit