Bisi Bele Bath

Eating Bisi Bele Bath in winter or rainy is really an enjoyable moment and this recipe is very suitable in that weather. In this we will intake less fat and more dal and few vegetables at once so as health wise also very good to eat.

Ingredients:

1 cup normal white Rice

3/4^th cup Toor (Thogari bele) dal

200gm Beans (cut into 1 inch long)

1 big carrot (cut into 1 inch long)

1 big green Capsicum (chop into cubes)

1 big Tomato (chop into cubes)

1 big Potato (peel and chop into cubes)

½ cup Groundnut

½ cup fresh Green peas or frozen baby peas

½ cup grated fresh Coconut

3 tsp Sambar powder

2 tsp Poppy seeds

1 tsp Coriander seeds

10 Red chillies (byadagi)

1 inch Cinnamon stick

6 Cloves

 1 tsp Mustard seeds

½ tsp Asafoetida (Hing)

2 tsp Tamarind paste

3 tsp Jaggery

5 tsp Ghee

10 Curry leaves

3 tsp coarsely chopped Coriander leaves

Salt

Water

Procedure:

1.     Wash rice and toor dal cook this with beans, potato, groundnut, peas and carrot in a pressure cooker (Add 2 cups more water compare to normal rice cooking) for 2 whistles and keep aside to cool.

2.     Fry capsicum in 1 tsp of ghee and keep aside.

3.     Keep a frying pan to heat, fry 6 red chillies, cloves, cinnamon into light brown and add poppy seeds at the end.

4.     Grind coconut, sambar powder and fried items into fine paste and keep aside.

5.     As the cooker cooled, open lid and add capsicum, tomato, salt, tamarind paste, ground paste and jaggery, mix well (You can add little water if the bath is too thick) and cook for 10 mins by stirring continuously.

6.     Keep a kadai to heat add ghee followed by mustard seeds as it splutters add hing followed by 4 red chillies, curry leaves and saute. Pour the seasoning on the contents in cooker and add coriander leaves.

7.     Bisi Bisi Bele Bath is ready to eat.