BisiBelaBath Rice Dish

Ingredients

Mixed Vegetables: Beans, Carrots, Potato, Eggplant, Green peas, Broccoli - 1/2 Cup
Onions -1 diced
Rice - 2 cups
Red gram lentils or the pigeon peas- 1 cup
Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup
Sambar masala powder - 6 tsp
Ghee - 3 tsp
Cashew nuts - 10 nos
Cloves - 2 nos
Tamarind juice
Cilantro leaves - As required
Coriander seeds - 1 Tsp
Cardamom - 3
Cumin (Jeera) seeds - 1 Tsp

Mustard seeds - 2 Tsp

Turmeric - 1/4 Tsp

Salt - to taste

Method:

1) Cut all vegetables evenly and steam them in a pressure cooker along with the 2 cups of rice.

2) Separately cook 1 cup of red gram (pigeon peas) in a pressure cooker.

3)Grind grated coconut with sambar masala powder and keep this paste aside.

4)Heat a frying pan and pour ghee into it. When it becomes hot, add cashews, mustard seeds, turmeric, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, Cardamom and cloves.

5)Then, add the diced onions into the frying pan and fry till lightly brown.

6)Add tamarind juice, salt and half of the ground paste and bring it to boil.

7)When the raw smell of tamarind is gone, add the steamed rice-vegetables-red gram (pigeon peas) mixture and stir well for about 5 minutes.

8)Add the remaining coconut paste at the end before removing BisiBelaBath from the flame.

9)Add some cilantro leaves and ghee on the top to BisiBelaBath before serving.

Serve BisiBelaBath hot.


Bisi Bele Bhath is a signature dish of many regions in Karnataka, South India. It is a wholesome meal-in-one and has rice, lentils and vegetables.

Channa (Chickpeas) Chaat

Ingredients:

2 cups chick peas
2 big boiled potatoes, peeled and chopped
1-3 green chillies finely chopped
2 tsp ginger finely chopped
1 - 2 medium onions chopped
3 Tbs lemon or lime juice
1 tsp fine sugar
2 Tbs coriander leaves chopped
2 med tomatoes, chopped
Sea Salt to taste
Chat masala to taste - start with about 1 spoon, and add more if you want it spicier. You can find this at any Indian store.


Method:


1. Mix all ingredients together and refrigerate for 1-2 hours. And the chaat is ready!

Chat:

The word chat or chaat means to lick and the word masala, as we have seen before, actually means spice mix in Hindi. So generally, the word chat is used for a collection of savory and highly spicy snacks that would make you lick /smack your lips – if that was acceptable in Indian etiquette.

Chat is traditionally sold by street hawkers in India and comes under a group of foods known as ‘Indian Street Foods’.