Bisibelebath

Bisibelebath is a Karnataka dish and it means Bisi - Hot, bele - dal and bath - mixed with Rice. Most of my friends call it as Sambar rice :) but it is not true even though few ingredients are same. In Sambar rice, Sambar and Rice are cooked separately and then mixed. Bisibelebath is all about cooking Toor dal, vegetables, rice and spices together. So lets start cooking.....

Ingredients:

Toor dal - 1 cup
Rice - 1 cup
Potato - 2-3
Carrot - 2-3
Beans
Bisibelebath masala - 2 -3 spoons
Groundnuts or peanuts - half cup
Cashews - as per taste
Tamarind paste
Ghee
Basic tampering (tadka)


Procedure:

1) Take 1 cup of toor dal in a big vessel and add 4 cups of water and start cooking on stove.
2) Soak 1 cup of rice in 1:2 ratio in a bowl.
3) If you don't have tamarind paste, please soak tamarind in a bowl now.
4) Cut 2-3 medium sized potatoes into cubes (not too small and not too big), also cut carrots and beans (you can add different variety of vegetables but i prefer only these three)
5) After 20 mins of cooking dal (dal should be half cooked), add vegetables and peanuts and continue cooking.
6) Mix 2-3 spoons of bisibelebath powder in tamarind juice, also add chilly powder if you want it little spicy.
7) After another 10 -15 mins (dal should be 75 % cooked) add the soaked rice along with water.
8) After another 5 mins, add the mix prepared in 6th step and add salt as per taste.
9) Prepare basic tadka (with oil, mustard seeds, hing, urad dal, curry leaves, cashews, red chillies etc).
10) Once rice and dal are well cooked, add the tadka to it along with lots of Ghee ( you can skip adding ghee if you don't want calories but if you are looking for excellent taste please add ghee and work out a little more in gym :))

There it is hot, spicy bisibelebath.

Serving tip: Server Bisibelebath with Boondi, chips, mixture or Papad (my favourite is Papad)