Bisi Bele Bhat

Bisi Bele Bhat

Ingredients

Rice (chawal) 1 ½ cup
Pigeon peas split (toor dal) ¾ cup
Onion (pyaz), sliced finely ½ cup
Tomatoes (tamater), chopped  ½ cup
Green chillies (hari mirch), slit 2-3 pieces
Desiccated coconut (khopra) ½ cup
Lemon sized balls Tamarind (imli) 11/2 piece
Vegetable Oil 4 table spoon
Curry (curry patta) leaves 2 sprigs
Turmeric powder (haldi) ½ tea spoon
Asafetida (hang) a pinch
Red chilli (lal mirch) powder
Salt to taste

For tempering

Mustard seeds (sarso ke dane) ½ tea spoon
Red (sabut lal mirch) chillies 2
Clarified Butter (ghee) 4-5 table spoon
Cashew nuts (kaju) 5-7  Pieces
Pea nuts (moongphali) ¼ cup

For bisi bile bhat masala

Bengal gram split (chana dal) ¼ cup
Split black gram (urad dal) 2 table spoon
Green cardamoms (chhoti elaichi) 4
Cloves (laung) 4
Cinnamon (dalchini) 1”
 Fenugreek (methi ) seeds ¼ tea spoon
Cumin(jeera) seeds                                            1/2 tea spoon
Whole Red (sabut lal mirch) chillies 4

Instructions

  1. Soak the rice and dals separately for twenty minutes and drain.
  2. Soak the tamarind in one cup of warm water for half an hour, remove the pulp, strain and keep aside.
  3. Dry roast “Bisi Bile bhat” ingredients individually on a pan. Mix all the roasted ingredients and grind to a coarse powder.
  4. Heat three tablespoons oil in a pressure cooker and sauté the onion till it turns translucent.
  5. Add slit green chillies, curry leaves and turmeric powder and stir-fry briefly.
  6. Add soaked rice and dal along with five cups of water. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally and let the rice and dal half cooked.
  7. Add tomatoes, asafetida powder, red chilli powder, tamarind pulp and salt. Stir well and add powdered huliyana masala.
  8. Cover and cook for 8-10 minutes. Open the lid carefully and stir well, check consistency.
  9. If it is too dry, moisten with a little warm water.
  10. Heat remaining oil and temper it with mustard seeds, curry leaves and whole red chillies and add this to rice.
  11. Heat pure ghee and fry the Peanuts and Cashew nuts to light brown and add to the rice, along with the ghee. Mix well and serve hot.

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