Khichdi Mahaprasad Recipe of Puri Jagannath Temple
Khichdi mahaprasad recipe of Lord Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha. Divine khichdi recipe cooked in clay pot in the Jagannath temple of Puri as a part of 56 bhog and offered to the deities daily in the Jagannath temple.
Equipment
- 1 Clay pot for cooking It is optional. In the Jagannath Temple kitchen, clay pots are used for cooking the mahaprasad.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Ambemohar or Gobindobhog Rice
- 1/2 cup Split Yellow Moong Dal
- 1/2 cup Grated Coconut
- 1 tsp Jaggery
- 1 tsp Cow Ghee
A
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- Rock Salt as per taste
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp Black Pepper Powder
- 1 tsp Grated Ginger
- 1 tsp Cow Ghee
Instructions
- Take the Ambemohar or Gobindobhog rice and Moong dal in a mixing bowl. Rinse the rice and dal with water for 2 to 3 times. Drain the water.
- Keep the rice and dal soaked in water for 15 minutes.
- Heat a clay pot for cooking of this Khichdi mahaprasad. In Jagannath temple kitchen, the daily 56 bhog is cooked in clay pots. If you do not have a clay pot, you may use any utensil available in your kitchen.
- Add 5 cups of water to the clay pot. Once the water starts boiling, add the soaked rice and dal without the water.
- Add the ingredients mentioned under "A" one by one
- Gently stir to mix all the ingredients with the rice and dal. Cook till rice and dal are almost cooked.
- When the rice and dal is 90% cooked, add the grated coconut to the khichdi. Give a good stir and cook the khichdi on low flame for 10 minutes more.
- Once the khichdi is completely cooked, add jaggery and cow ghee. Mix well with the khichdi and it is ready to be offered to the lord Jagannath for bhog.