Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Metkut

Metkut is a typical Maharashtrian recipe. This is a fine powder made from rice, dal and other spices. It tastes very nice with ghee and rice (Tup-Metkut-Bhat). It's very healthy and easy to digest. My niece 'Aadyaa' loves this Metkut with soft over cooked rice(Gurgutya bhat in Marathi) and ghee. She can just eat this at any time of the day. We generally eat this whenever we feel sick and upset stomach. My mother makes best Chivda with metkut and chatni pudi. I'll definitely post the recipe of Chivda. But for now Aadyaa's favorite "Metkut"








Ingredients
Chana dal (harbara dal) - 1 cup
Urad dal - 1 cup
Rice - 1/2 cup
Whole wheat (Genhu) - 3 tablespoon
Cumin seeds - 1 tablespoon
Asafetida - 1 teaspoon (I used LG Hing)
Turmeric Powder - 1 teaspoon
Red chilli powder - 2 teaspoons
Coriander seeds - 1 teaspoon
Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
Fenugreek Seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Dry ginger powder - 1 teaspoon



Procedure
Roast chana dal, urad dal, rice, genhu, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, fenugreek seeds separately one by one till it slightly gets brown. Cool it. Mix all the given ingredients and make a fine powder of it. It gives a nice aroma. Sieve and store it in a airtight container. You can use this for several months. Just have it with hot rice, ghee and salt as per taste. And lemon pickle along with it…. A superb combination.


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25 comments:

  1. Hi. This is still an all time favorite at my place.

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  2. Oh Wow Preeti1 sounds like a keeper powder!All the spices and the dhals add to the aroma of the powder. I can really imagine the taste with hot rice.

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  3. Wow that is awesome recipe I have bookmarked it.. I like this kind of powder with rice and ghee.. surely i will try this..Healthy too.

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  4. This is a good recipe here...cheers

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  5. New to me.I love this kind type of powder with hot rice and ghee .Sure to try .Following you for your yummy recipes
    http://padhuskitchen.blogspot.com/

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  6. Thanks to Shantiji, Pari, Lataji, Pavithra, Supriya and Padhu for lovely comments.

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  7. Hi
    First time here..beautiful space and lots of lovely recpies..New to me, looks lovely...sure to try..following you..

    cheers and do visit
    http://joyofcooking247.blogspot.com

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  8. New recipe da, different from what we usually make for rice. Thanks for the recipe, book marked!

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  9. I am ookmarking this.. was in search an authetic dish..This looks teh prefect

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  10. I love metkut and rice, it is so comforting..In my childhood we used to eat it on every sunday with nice steaming rice and along with some home made ghee..you took me back to my childhood day Preeti..

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  11. lovely and delicious powder to have with rice and ghee.

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  13. Wow the color looks very amazing hope a lil ghee and warm rice would make the magic!!!

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  14. looks delicious, yummy with hot rice and ghee.

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  15. Fantastic recipe. Thanks for sending it to the event.

    Arundhuti
    Gourmet Affair

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  16. It would be divine with rice..thanks for the entry

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  17. the name khaugiri made me peep into ur blog.. nice blog.. liked ur presentation of metkut n the container too.. delicious..

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  18. OOh yumm..And fantastic blog you have here!!
    BTW,my daughter's name is also Aadya!

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  19. Nice receipt. But one question what if I don't add wheat since my hubby can eat only gluten free food. Any alternative for wheat?

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  20. Hi,
    You can certainly omit wheat from it.

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  21. Thank you so much for sharing metkut recipe !! I so wanted to make it at home! I just twisted it a bit by using dalicha Peeth n gavhacha peeth as I did not have the whole grains but it turned out just fine! Lovely blog!

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  22. Thanks for the receipe . Just want to know what's the alternative for wheat? If I don't want to add wheat as I have problem with it.

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    1. Thanks for your response :-)
      I have never tried it without wheat but you can certainly try excluding it. Please let me know how it turns :-)

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