Bise Bele Bath

Authentic Karnataka dish.

First make bisebele bath powder and keep it aside. You can store this in fridge for months together.

Here is the recipe for the powder:-

Ingredients:-

1 cup-channadhal
1 cup- uradh dhal
2 cup-dhaniya seeds
1cup- jeera
1.5 cup-Dry red chilies broken in to pieces{fry this in oil and keep it aside]
½ cup-curry leaves
1.5 cup-dry coconut powder
Fry the above items separately in a pan and keep it aside.
Salt- for taste( use 2 full tspns for this quantity)
Tamarind- 2 lemon size quantity( fry it in a pan for little while and cut it in to pieces)
Finally put all the above ingredients in a blender and make it as a coarse powder.


Method to make bath:-

Ingredients:-

veggies( carrot,aloo,beans,capsicum,)-1.5 cup
Rice-1/2 cup
Tur dhal-1/2 cup
Tomato-1
Onion chopped- 1
Bisebele bath powder:- 2 tspns


Method:-

Mix both tur dhaal and rice and pressure cook for until 3- 4 whistles.
Boil veggies,onion and keep aside.
Finally mix cooked rice and turdhaal with these veggies and add tomato.
When it is boiling, add bisebelebath powder mixed in little warm water. Add to the rice. Mix it well. Ad some water. Add little jiggery and little tamarind pulp. Salt and boil it properly. Finally add seasoning with mustard seeds,jeera and little hing and curry leaves.

Eat this bath when it is hot..bise bele bath means. HOT DHAAL BATH..its tasier if u eat with bhoondi or some raitha.