Bisibele Bhath - 534 Calories in 1 cup of Bisibele Bhath

Cuisine Style: Karnataka | Cooking Time: 20 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Take with: Picke/Pappadam | Type: Main course, Breakfast/Lunch/ Dinner

‘BISI BELE BHATH’ literally means ‘hot rice and daal mix’. Obviously it’s delicious when it is consumed hot, as the flavour and aroma is lost when it cools down or if it is reheated. It is a very wholesome food and can be consumed without any side dishes. Hence it deserves all the attention it gets during its preparation. You can really make a mess of it if you are careless while preparing it. So read on…

Method 1

Ingredients

• Rice -2 cups
• Toor Dal- 1 cup
• Mixed Vegetables [Potatoes, Carrot, Brinjal and beans]- 1 cup [cut into cubes]
• Small Onion – 12 small
• Mustard - 1 tbsp
• Asafoetida-1 tsp
• Urad Dal-1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder-½ tsp
• Tamarind Extract- 2 tbsp
• Curry leaves-1 spring
• Kara boondi – 3 tbsp
• Jaggery - 1tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil – 2 tbsp
• Water as needed or Apr 5 & 1/2 cup to 6 cups

Ingredients

• Urad Dal & chana dal - 1 tbsp
• Bay leaf - 1
• Coriander Seeds-1 tbsp
• Dry Red Chilli-5
• Cumin and fenugreek - 1 tbsp each
• Cinnamon- ½ stick
• Cloves-3 to 4
• Kasa kasa - 1 tbsp
• Dry roast all ingredients then grind to fine powder
• You can keep it for 3 months and use it instantly

Preparation

• Heat another pan, add oil then add asafetida & onion sauté till soft.
• Then add vegetables, ground paste, tamarind extract, & turmeric powder sauté for 1 min.
• Add water & salt let it boil.
• Then add 1 tbsp of ginglley oil or ghee.
• Add jaggery boil for 3 min
• When boiling, add rice, toor dal mix well, cover it & cook till soft.
• Heat oil in a pan seasoning with mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves.
• Add seasoned ingredients to the cooked bisibele bhath.
• Sprinkle Kara boondi over Bisibele Bhath & serve hot.

Note

• You can add chopped tomatoes
  

Tip

• You can add 1 tbs of sugar or Jaggery.

Method 2 (By Shivshankar, shiv_sn@yahoo.com)

Ingredients

• Locally available good quality rice - 250 grams
• Tur daal - 200 grams
• Vegetables -potatoes, fresh beans, cauliflower, carrots,(diced in convenient sizes and a mix as per your choice), green peas About 250 grams together
• Cooking oil ( refined) -6 tablespoons
• Pure ghee -6 tablespoons
• Tamarind pul - about the size of a lemon
• Black small mustard seeds -One teaspoon
• Kadi patta/ curry leaves - about 20 leaves
• Turmeric powder - ¼ tablespoon
• Potato wafers - chips

For Masala

• Urad dal - 2 table spoons
• Chana dal - 2 tablespoons
• Dry coconut powder[koppara thengai]- 2 tablespoons
• Dry chillies hot variety - 6 long ones(If you like the dish coloured, use 4 ‘byadgi’ chillies or kashmiri chillis and 4 hot chillies)
• Asafoetida powder - half teaspoon
• Dal chini/ cinnamon - 3 inch long
• Marathi Moggu/ maretti moggu - 6 numbers (very essential for the dish)
• Coriander seeds - 3 tablespoons (do not use powder)
• Salt to taste

Preparation

• Use a five liter capacity pressure cooker as the dish is likely to fill it at the end of the
  preparation.
• Wash the rice, add a half a spoonful salt and 6 teacups of water and pressure cook. until
  the second whistle on high heat, remove from fire and let it cool. De-steam pressure
  cooker after 5 minutes and empty the contents to another vessel. Repeat the same process
  for the Tur daal also and keep aside separately. Next, boil the vegetables with some salt
  and turmeric powder in the same pressure cooker and remove after the first whistle ( if
  you are using cauliflower, it is better to boil them separately and not pressure cook, as it
  may get mashed)..
• Roast udad daal and chana daal separately in a kadai (pan) with a drop of oil until they
  are brown. Similarly roast coriander, dry chillies, cinnamon and moggu individually.
  Powder the roasted cinnamon and moggu separately in a grinder or a pestle Put all these
  in a mixie jar along with asafetida and coconut powder, add a little water and grind to a
  watery paste.
• Mix boiled tur dal and vegetables in the pressure cooker and put on heat. Add the masala
  and allow to boil together on a low flame until the ingredients are cooked to the right
  consistency. As the mix is likely to thicken due to the presence of the daals, keep adding
  water so that it is fluid. Add salt by tasting the mix. It is important to keep stirring the
  mix as otherwise it may burn at the bottom. After 10 minutes of stirring, pour the boiled
  rice into the mixture and keep stirring. Once the rice is fully boiled, squeeze tamarind in
  a cup of water and pour the water into the mix. Cook for 5 more minutes, ensuring that it
  does not stick to the bottom.
• Heat the oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds when it gets heated. Add the curry leaves
  and allow them to fry completely. Remove from the heat and add the ghee into it. Pour
  the oil when hot onto the bhath. Remove the dish from the stove. The consistency of the
  dish should be such that it should easily spread when poured into a plate.
• At the time of eating, crush a few potato wafers over the dish in the plate. Relish the dish
  when hot but don’t burn your tongue!

How this Bisibele Bhath recipe is Unique?

• Sambar or ready made Bisibele Bhath is not used here.

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