Monday, November 26, 2007

Bisibela Bath



It is typical karnataka food.........Bisi means 'Hot',bela means 'Dal',it is tasty mixture of rice,dal and vegetables........here goes the recipe


Ingredients:

1 Cup - Rice
1 cup - Toor dal
1 1/2 cup- Mixed veggies(Carrot,beans,peas,soya seeds,potato,turnip)
1 - Onion(medium)
1 - Tomato(medium)
2 Tbsp - Tamarind paste
2 Tbsp - Ghee
2 - Green chillies
Turmeric - pinch
Chille powder
Jaggery
Salt
Bisibela bath powder

Seasoning:

Oil
Mustards
Urad dal
chana dal
cashew nuts
curry leaves
cilentro

Here it goes...........

Pressure cook the dal by adding chopped onions,tomatos for 3 whistle

Now cook the rice seprately ,once the rice is half boiled add the cooked dal along with all the veggies and let it cook on medium flame

Now take a small bowl and add 2 tbsp of Bisibelabath powder add little water and stir it properly to avoid lumps, add this to the rice

Now add tamarind paste,jaggery,salt,chille powder and finally add ghee which leaves very good smell

Take a pan add oil once oil heats add mustard seeds,uraddal,chana dal,splited green chilles,cashewnuts and curry leaves fry it of couple of seconds now pour this to the cooked rice-dal-veggie mixture and garnish with fresh cilentro........and serve hot with Onion raitha,tastes Yammi.........

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Well.. we here in Europe... tried your recipes and they are FANTASTIC!

Bisbelabath, Kakarakaya fry have become our regular menu items.

We hope that in future you will bring out more interesting recipes like these, for us.

Many thanks
EuroChef & Team