Bisibele Bath

Radhika of Tickling Palates has announced a fun way to link up with bloggers with an event called the "Blog hop Wednesday". The aim is to make a lot friends who come with a recipe in tow. Sounds like fun right. I have been paired up this week with Sangeetha from Typical Indian cooking. She has a lot of recipes on the blog and a friendly person too. I chose to make bisibele bath from her blog. This is my husbands favorite recipe. I have made my version of the classic Karnataka special. So do check out the recipe.

 

Bisibele Bath

Ingredients

Rice-1 cup

Toor Dal-1/2 cup

Mixed vegetables- I used 1 carrot,2 brinjals,4-5 strings of beans)

Lemon sized tamarind-Soaked

Turmeric-1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Baby onions-10 nos

Sambar powder-1tsp

oil-for frying onions

Ghee-1 spoon

Coriander leaves for garnish

For the powder to be fried  and powdered

1-cardamom

1-clove

1-cinnamon stick

Coriander seeds-1tbsp

Bengal gram dal-1 tbsp

Red chillies-2

1-Star anise-optional

This method of mine is very simple. I pressure cook the vegetables,rice and dal with salt and turmeric powder. I use six glasses of water to be put in the cooker's container. Once this is done. I take a vessel,extract the tamarind juice,put the spice  powder and sambar powder,add the rice and other ingredients to this and let this mixture cook well. Once well done add the pearl onions(which is fried in oil) to this mixture. Garnish with coriander leaves. Add a dollop of ghee while serving. I have not used coconut, if you wish to you can use 1/2 cup grated coconut. Serve this with a raita of your choice.