Bisi bele bath recipe – bisi bele bath is a tasty, flavourful dish from Karnataka, prepared using rice, toor dal, vegetables and a special spice blend. The name Bisi bele bath itself means hot lentil rice (sambar rice, Karnataka style)

• Prep time – 30 mins
• Cook time -30 mins
• Serves – 2

Ingredients needed: 

• Raw rice or sona masoori – 1/2 cup, heaped
• Toor dal – 1/4 cup
• Water – 4 cups
• Tamarind – 1 tsp packed
• Small onion, shallots – 10 nos
• Tomatoes – 1
• Potato – 1
• Beans – 8 strings
• Carrot – 1/2
• Turmeric – 1/4 tsp

To dry roast and Grind:

• Red chili (baydgi variety/shrinked one) – 5
• Red chili – 2 (Optional)
• Coriander seeds – 1 tsp
• Urad dal – 1/2 tsp
• Chana dal – 1 tsp
• Black pepper – 1/2 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds – 1/4 tsp
• Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp
• Asafetida – 1/2 tsp
• Cinnamon – 1/2-inch piece
• Clove – 1
• Star anise – 1/4
• Dry coconut – 1 tbsp.

 To Temper:

• Ghee – 1 tbsp
• Cashew nuts – 10
• Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp
• Fenugreek seeds – ¼ tsp
• Dry chilies – 2
• Coriander leaves
• Curry leaves

Method:

• Peel shallots and chop veggies of your choice
• Heat ghee, fry cashew nuts until golden and keep aside for garnish.
• In the same kadai, add all the ingredients under “To dry roast and Grind”. Make sure to roast in low or medium flame to avoid burning.
• Powder the roasted ingredients once cooled, into a fine powder.
• In a pressure cooker, add some ghee or oil; Saute onions for sometimes and add veggies one by one and saute.
• When the veggies are half cooked add turmeric powder, roasted masala powder and tamarind extract. Bring it to boil. Check for salt
• Once boil, add water: Rice+Dal is 3/4 cup. So add 4 cups of water and bring it to boil. Make sure the water is little salty so that it will be fine cooked with rice and dal
• When boiling, add washed Rice and Dal together. Give a stir.
• Pressure cook in a medium flame for 3 or 4 whistles.
• Garnish coriander leaves, fried cashews and ghee

Serve hot with onion raita, or appalam vadam or some crispy potato chips. Enjoy hot!

Notes:

• You can add any vegetables of your choice like avarakkai, vazhakkai, mochai payaru, peas
• Adjust red chili as you prefer
• Add enough water to attain perfect consistency. If you are using raw rice, add extra water, as raw rice gets thicker.

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