Tarka, Aludam, Rajma, Ghooghni, Khichdi, Dal Makhni:
- The base for all the 4 is the same. Cut onions, tomato, ginger, garlic. Add all this and red chilies and rock salt (I always use rock salt where there is some water) and grind. Then fry the mixture well. The base is ready.
Tarka: Soak pachai payar
Rajma: Soak rajma
Ghooghni: Soak white chana (aka white peas or vellai pattani) and Dal Makhni: Full black urad dal (soak overnight in water)
In each case it should be soaked in water with some (rock) salt overnight and then boiled. In case of aludam, boil potato.
- Finally add the boiled stuff to the fried and ground mixture. Add finely cut dhaniya leaves.
- In case of khichdi, add the fried mixture to moong dal and then add dhaniya leaves and vegetables (potato, peas, carrot) and boil.
Ghooghni:
Make Thayir Chadam first:
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| Boil rice. Sautee mustard, urad dal. Add green chilies (or as in this case I added red chili powder) and salt. Add butter milk or curd (yoghurt). And mix well. Curd rice goes well with any of tarka ghooghni etc. |
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| White peas (vellai pattani) being soaked overnight for ghooghni. Remember to add salt. |
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| Boiled after being soaked. Now one part of the dish is ready. It needs to be mixed with the base and fried well. We have to make the base. Note that the base is same for all dishes. |
Additional reading:
Khichdi across India: https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw35mjsjk&source=gmail&ust=1486958969822000&usg=AFQjCNHAjkuxy3tJnTFGqYe0Tz_mFgIQ2Q
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| Grind red chilies, salt, tomatoes, onion pieces, dhaniya, jeera, ginger and garlic. Add Dhaniya leaves also |
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| After grinding. - This is the base. This is the 2nd part of the dish (same for all dishes: Khichdi, Tarka, Aludam, Rajma) |
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| Add slices of grated coconut. (only for Ghoooghni). Cut the slices into small cubes. Not needed for tarka, khichdi etc |
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| Coconut slices added to ground base. Mix well |
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| Mix the two parts. Boiled white peas and the ground base. |
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| Top: Ghooghni AND Bottom: Ghoogni mixed with Curd rice |
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| Dal Makhni: May need some more water. |
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