Bisi Bele
Bath, an authentic dish from
Karnataka cuisine is delicious rice prepared with dal/lentils and vegetables are
nicely cooked with masala powder. The specially prepared Masala powder has many
flavorful and rich tastes which make this dish so special. And, in the end
adding the tempering makes this dish super special. In this recipe, I have used the instant/ready bisi
bele bath Masala powder.
Try this easy method of Bisi Bele Bath recipe and turn dinner
into a special occasion with its mouth-watering aroma and richness. Learn
how to make Authentic Karnataka style Bisi Bele Bath dish by following the
given step by step recipe.
In Kannada language “Bisi” means Hot “Bele” means dal/lentils and “Bath”
means rice. i.e Hot Lentil Rice.
Ingredients:
Rice – 1 cup
Toor Dal / Split yellow gram - ½ cup
Vegetables:
Onion – ½ cup chopped
Tomato – 1/2 cup chopped
String Beans – ¼ cup chopped
Carrot – ¼ cup chopped
Baby Limo Beans – ¼ cup
Masala
Powders:
Bisi Bele Bath Powder – 3 tbsp
(Available in Indian Grocery Store)
Red chili Powder – 2 tsp
Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp
Salt to Taste
Tamarind Juice – 1 tbsp
Seasoning:
Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp
Urud Dal /White Lentils – 1 tsp
Whole Red Chili – 2 nos.
Curry leaves – Few
Hing/ Asafoetida – a Pinch
Ground nuts – ¼ cup
Cashews/ Kaju – few (Optional)
Oil/butter for seasoning
Preparation:
Cook the rice nicely. Rice should be mushy
for this recipe. Add more water while cooking. In case, if you forgot to add more
water not to worry… I found a simple solution - Take a big mixer jar add cooked
rice and cup of water and just run it once… this makes rice mushy and bit watery. (do this process in batch wise)
Cook the dal/lentils in a pressure
cooker and allow them to cool and blend it nicely adding ½ cup of water
Cook all vegetables in pressure cooker.
Here I am using simple to fry vegetables, so I am directly cooking in a pan.
Easy tip: In a pressure cooker set the rice , dal and
vegetables in a separate utensil and cook. It saves lots of time.
Method:
Heat oil in a pan in
medium flame, once oil is hot enough
add the onion and saute them till it turns to pink color. Then add the chopped strings beans and carrot saute them for 1 or 2 minutes or till the vegetables slightly cooked
Add the baby lima beans and tomato and
cook them for 2 more minutes or till all vegetables are cooked nicely. (Lima
beans give extra taste to this dish.)
Add blended dal mixture, salt, turmeric
powder, red chili powder, bisi bele bath powder, tamarind juice and 2 cups of
water
Mix it nicely and cook them till all raw
masala powder smell disappears
Add the cooked rice in batch wise and
mix the rice with gravy.
Gravy rice should be little bit watery consistent not as dry rice. Adjust the salt, spicy and tanginess and water in this step.
Heat a butter for seasoning, add the
mustard seeds and urad dal/white lentils and allow them to crack, add curry
leaves, hing, and red chili and fry for 1 minute and add the roasted ground
nuts and mix it nicely with seasoning oil and dunk this tempering on top of
gravy rice mixture.
Serving: Serve with onion tomato raita
and roasted papad. Enjoy this simple divine dinner.
Note:
For this recipe, rice should be
nicely cooked in a mushy way. This gives nice smooth and soft texture to bisi
bele bath
You can add vegetables other than above
are like green peas, capsicum (green), chayote squash (chow chow), cauliflower florets and turnips.
If you are using raw groundnuts then cook
them with rice.
If you are good at pressure cooker
handling, you can do all above steps in cooker itself. Just make sure not to
burn the rice mixture.
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