Krisara

Krisara (Khichdi) is a porridge-like preparation made from rice and mung dal (or other lentils) cooked together with ghee and spices. It is sweet, heavy, unctuous, nourishing, strengthening, and alleviates Vata. Mung dal Khichdi is considered the best and is widely recommended during illness and convalescence. When prepared with more ghee and less spice, it is suitable for pacifying all three doshas. It is one of the most commonly recommended food preparations in Ayurvedic therapeutics.

• Brumhana (nourishing)
• Balya (strengthening)
• Vatahara (alleviates Vata)

ा यमांसरसा तेषु, पेया वा नेहभिजता ४० तलचण ू च स ने हफा णतः, कृशरा तथा ीरपेया घ ृता यो णा, द नो वा सगुडः सरः ४१ पेया च प च स ृताः स तैते ने हैः त डुलप चमैः नेहनाः स यः Juice of meat prepared from more quantity of meat, Peya – gruels, fried with more quantity of fats, powder of Tila mixed with fat and half boiled molasses (Phanita), Krisara – rice cooked along with green gram, mixed with the same things as above, Ksheerapeya – gruel prepared from milk, mixed with more quantity of ghee – but

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Snehavidhi oleation therapy

Alternatively, with warmed fish flesh, or krisara (rice-lentil preparation) with saindhava salt, or with sandalwood, lotus, kushtha, and well-ground pippali.

— Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 26: Chapter 26