Making time:

• 25 minutes
• For four people

Ingredients:

• 1 cup broken barley / jou dalia
• 4 cups of water
• 1 cup mixed vegetables (peas, potatoes, carrots, beans, finely chopped onions, tomatoes)
• 2 finely chopped green chilli
• ¼ tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp oil / ghee for seasoning + 1 tsp ghee for adding in the end
• 1 pinch Asafoetida (hing)
• ¼ tsp cumin
• Coriander washed and finely chopped
• ½ tsp ginger paste
• salt to taste

Method:

Firstly, roast the cracked barley in a heavy pot on low heat for 5 minutes. Now put oil or ghee in the cooker. When oil / ghee is bit hot, add cumin and asafoetida. Now add onion and sauté it well. Then add all the vegetables and green chillies and stir fry for 1or 2 minutes. Now add tomatoes and stir fry for another 1 minute. Add turmeric, salt and ginger paste as well. Then add the roasted broken barley and stir fry for 1 more minute. Now add 4 cups of water and let it cook on medium heat for 10 minutes in the cooker. Turn off the gas after two whistles. Serve with chopped coriander leaves and ghee once cooker cools down. Eat it hot. It should not be very solid.

You can make corn or jowar dalia/porridge in the same way.

The jowar/barley should be a little wet, not very solid. Hot food as soon as jowar/barley is made You need it. Cold jowar/barley doesn't look good It is.