India seeks to enter record book with over 800kg khichdi dish

New Delhi, November 4 : A team led by renowned chef Sanjeev Kapoor on Saturday cooked about 800 kg khichdi–a traditional dish–at the World Food India event here in an attempt to enter the Guinness World Records and promote the dish as Brand India superfood.
Yoga guru Ramdev put crowning ‘tadka’ in the dish which was steam-cooked in a giant wok weighing around 1,200 kg. Officials from the Guinness World Records were yet to ascertain if a record had been made.“Khichdi is a healthy and superfood. It is a solution to those depending on food supplements. It is rich with all nutrition,” Ramdev said after putting tadka in the dish.
Promoting khichdi as a ‘Brand India’ food is a good step towards promoting healthy superfood in not only domestic but also international market, he added.
Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who also lent a hand in the cooking of khichdi, said: “It is a wholesome food as it contains most of the nutrients. It also symbolises the country’s unity in diversity.”The dish was prepared using multigrains like rice, pulses, coarse cereals and vegetables. The night-long preparation was supervised by chef Sanjeev Kapoor.
The khichdi will be distributed to orphans by Akshaya Patra Foundation, and to about 60,000 people.Other leading chefs, including Imtiaz Qureshi, Ranveer Brar, Sudhir Sibal, Rakesh Sethi, Akshay Nayyar and Satish Gowda, helped in the cooking.