Bisi Bela Bath

Bisi Bela Bath is always one of my favorite recipe .  It is a healthy dish wherein you get carbohydrate from rice, protein from daal and vitamins and minerals from vegetables. All from a single dish !

INGREDIENTS:

                      Rice - 1 Cup
                      Toor Daal - 1/2 Cup (Soak Toor daal for 10-15 minutes)
                      Water - 61/2 Cup
                      Tamarind - Lemon Size
                      Turmeric - 1/2 tea spoon
                      Ghee - 3 Table spoon
                      Small Onions - 5
                       Carrot ,Beans, Green Peas - 1 cup
                       Mustard,curry leaves, Oil- As required for seasoning

FOR GRINDING:

                       Coconut - As required
                      (You can also use coconut powder . 1 or 2 tablespoon should be sufficient.)
                       Coriander seeds -  1 table spoon                  
                       Pepper               - 1/2 teaspoon                  
                       Cinnamon         -  As required
                       Chana Daal (Kadalai paruppu) -   1 table spoon
                       Dry red chilli -4
                       Star Anise - 1

METHOD:

  1. In little oil, fry the items mentioned in the "For Grinding" section and make it into a fine masala powder.

 2.In a pressure cooker, Add  toor daal, water, turmeric powder and some ghee. Allow it to boil. Then add rice, all the vegetables (except onion), Tamarind water , Masala powder, salt and cover the lid of pressure cooker. Keep in High and count 5 whistles and then switch off .

            
 3.For seasoning, Add oil,  mustard , curry leaves and onion and fry it and add to the bisi bela bath. You can also add some ghee in the end for a nice aroma and flavor.