Bisi Bele Bhath - Brinjal

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Do you know how to prepare Bisi Bele Bhath. Today I'm going to tell about how to prepare this wonderful dish. It is a simple dish and one of my favourite dishes too. Bisi Bele Bhath means hot lentil cooked rice. This rice is cooked by using the lots of spices and vegetables. Especially, brinjal is really very important for preparing this dish. This is one of the nutritious foods which are good for your health. You can see that, this is been cooked in Maharashtra, Chennai and many other areas.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups mixed vegetables (carrots, beans, radish, shalots, tomatoes, drum sticks, onions)
• 1 Tsp Cumin seeds or some use fennel
• 2 Tsp Broken cashew nuts
• 2 Cardamoms
• 1Tsp Chana Dal
• 1 inch piece Cinnamon
• 2 Cloves
• 1 Tsp Coriander seeds
• 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
• 1 cup Rice
• 4 Dry red chillis
• Few springs few curry leaves
• Ginger Garlic Paste
• Pinch Hing (Asafetida)
• 20 grams Tamarind juice
• 1 tbsp Dessicated coconut
• 1 Tsp Oil
• 1tsp Urad Dal
• 1 to taste Salt
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric
• 1/2 cup Toor dal

Preparation method of Bisi Bele Bhath:

Next coming to the preparation method, add three tablespoon of oil, mustard seeds, jeera, red chilies, broken cashew, small pieces of onions, curry leaves, green chilli, pinch of hing. You can even add all the vegetables along with brinjal, pinch of Turmeric, soaked toor Dal. Now add the rice and enough water to it. Cover it with a lid and let it boil till the rice is cooked, dal is smashed up and vegetables cook well.

In the meantime, we can prepare the spice powder for Bisi Bele Bhath. For preparing spice powder, you need to dry roast some of the ingredients which are as following: take a pan, add dry red chilies, fenugreek seeds, pinch of mustard, whole garam masala( cloves, elachi, cardamom), dhanya (coriander seeds), Chana Dal, urad dal, finely chopped coconut pieces. Here you don't need to add any oil to it, as you're going to dry roast it. When they get slight golden colour remove it from the flame and grind it into a coarse paste.

When the rice is three fourth cooked, at the time you can add this tomato pieces, salt, spice powder and Tamarind juice. Tamarind juice can be added according to you. Just garnish it with coriander leaves and serve it to your family. You can serve them with the Kara boondi and curd raita.