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.
