Khichdi is the favorite comfort food of Indians. It is a soft, pillowy pilaf made of rice and yellow, hulled, split mung bean. Despite the vast culinary diversity of India, khichdi is made in almost every state in myriad forms - with vegetables, without vegetables, with spices, with minimal spices, with tadka (tempered oil) or without tadka. The very basic recipe follows. It is a quick meal, which my mother churned out every time we arrived home from a trip.

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