Bisi Bele Bath for your Lunch

This is a rice dish whose birth is from Karnataka. This South Indian dish Where “Bisi” means “Hot” , ” Bele” means “dal” and “Bath” means “rice” is a combination of vegatables, peas , dal and rice. It comes out be sour and spicy. One bowl of Bisi bele bath has all nutrient content and a complete food, especially for growing children.

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Ingredients required:

MTR Bisi Bele Bath powder
One bowl Cooked rice
Carrot, Beans, Potatoes
Tomatoes( not more than 2)
Peas, Soya, Groundnuts
curry leaves
Sesame, jeera
Urad dal, Toor dal
Cashews
Green chillies
Grated coconut
Jaggery
Tamarind
Ghee
Salt to taste

Preparation time: 45 minutes

You have to soak peas overnight or soak them early morning with hot water.

Recipe:

Cook rice in your normal way using a pressure cooker and keep aside.

Take a mixer jar and make a fine paste of grated coconut.

Chop carrots, beans and potatoes. The amount of vegetables depends on the amount of rice. Let them be almost of equal quantity.

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Now Pressure cook toor dal , soaked peas and soya seeds and vegetables separately .

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Take a kadai and keep in low flame. Add two spoons of ghee, sesame seeds, jeera, urad dal , curry leaves and groundnuts. Fry till sesame splitters.

Now add chopped tomatoes and fry for 5minutes. Add tamarind, jagerry , cashews and two cups of water to it. Let them boil together.

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Once the water is boiled, add boiled vegetables, peas, soya seeds , green chillies , 2 spoons of MTR bisi bele bath powder and salt to taste. Let it boil for 10minutes.

Now add boiled toor dal and fine paste of coconut to kadai. Let them mix for 5 to 10 minutes till the thickness in water is found.

Now add cooked rice and stir them well for 10 minutes.

Add water if required. The consistency should be maintained bit watery.

Serve Bisi Bele Bath with a spoon full of ghee.

You might feel the recipe to be long way, but it’s really not. Simply boiling rice , dal and vegetables separately and mixing them together with sourness , sweetness and spice.

Serve it for you family and see the smiles in them :)

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