Indian Cooking Recipe: Bisibele Bhath
The following are the instructions on how to cook delicious Indian food: Bisibele Bhath
Ingredients:
1. 1 cup rice, washed and drained
2. 2 cups toor dal
3. 1/2 tsp turmeric
4. 1 tbsp oil
5. 1 1/2 cups chopped, mixed vegetables (beans, carrots, bell pepper, ridge gourd, turnip, peas)
6. 1 onion, chopped
7. 1 tomato, chopped
8. 1 1/2 tbsp tamarind juice
9. 1 small piece jaggery
10. 6-8 curry leaves
11. 2 tbsps ghee or butter
12. 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
13. Salt to taste
14. 1 tsp ghee
15. 1 tbsp bengal gram
16. 1 tbsp black gram
17. 1 tbsp coriander seeds
18. 1 tbsp poppy seeds (gasagase)
19. 1/2 cup grated copra (dry coconut, kobbari)
20. 8-10 dried red chillies
21. 3 cloves
22. 1 cardamom pod
23. 1 small piece jaikai
24. 1 cinnamon stick, broken
25. 1 tsp oil
26. 1 tsp mustard seeds
Method of Preparation:
Heat ghee in a pan, add all the masala ingredients (except dry coconut) and roast until lightly browned. Remove from the heat and mix with dry coconut. Then grind to a smooth paste with water. Set aside.
Wash dal and put it in a heavy based sauce pan with water, 1 tbsp oil and turmeric and cook. After the dals are cooked add onions, vegetables and allow it to cook. After the vegetables are half cooked add rice.
Keep on stirring, add water if required. After the rice is almost cooked add the ground paste, tomato, tamarind juice, salt, jaggery, curry leaves. Let all the ingredients mix well while you keep stirring.
Add ghee and simmer until the mixture blends. Remove from the heat.
Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, and allow spluttering and pouring it over the rice mixture and mix well. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot with raita.
