Bisi Bele Bhath

*Bisi Bele Bhath recipe*

Ingredients:

1. Rice - 1cup
2. Toor dal - 1/4 cup
3. Mixed vegetables like carrot,beans,potato,peas,beetroot ,Tomato,green chillies ,
4. onions - 1 cup
5. Tamarind - 1 (small marble size)
6. Turmeric powder - 1 pinch
7. Sambar powder - 1/4 tsp
8. Chopped coriander leaves - 3tsp
9. Butter or ghee - 3tsp
10. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
11. Curry leaves - 8 count
12. Oil - 4tsp

To Grind:

1. Coriander seeds - 2tsp
2. Dry red chillies - 5
3. Jeera/cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
4. Whole pepper - 1/4 tsp
5. Chana/Bengal gram dal - 1tsp
6. Urad dal -1tsp
7. Methi seeds - 1/2 tsp
8. Cloves - 3 small
9. Cinnamon stick - 1 small piece
10. Cardamon - 1 count
11. Asafoetida - 1 pinch
12. Shredded coconut - 2tsp

Method:

• First boil rice with two cups of water and all the vegetables(without water) separately.
• Cook Toor dal with water,pinch of turmeric and little oil in a pressure cooker.
• Take 1/2cup of juice from tamarind piece by soaking in warm water.
• In a pan take half tsp of oil and fry coriander seeds ,dry red chillies,jeera,pepper,chana dal,urad dal,methi seeds,cinnamon,cloves ,asfoetida and the shredded cocount .
• Cool it and grind it like a paste adding little water.
• Now to the cooked dal add tamarind juice,salt,the ground mix,sambar powder and all the cooked vegetables and boil for 2 mins. To this add cooked rice and season with jeera,mustard and curry leaves at the end.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.
• This tasty bisi bele bhath is ready to eat with chips.