Bisi Bele Bhath

Ingredients

• • Rice - 1 cup
• • Thuar dal - ½ cup
• • Tamarind - lime size
• • Potatoes - 2
• • Peas (fresh) - ¼ cup
• • Onions (small) - ½ cup
• • Salt - as required
• • Ghee - 3 tablespoons
• • Cashew nuts - 2 tablespoons
• • Asafoetidas - a pinch

---

Ingredients For Masala Powder

• • Red chillies - 10
• • Coriander seeds - 1 ½ teaspoons
• • Fenugreek - ¼ teaspoon
• • Black gram dal - 1 teaspoon
• • Bengal gram dal - ¼ teaspoon
• • Cinnamon - 1 inch piece
• • Cloves - 2
• • Coconut (grated, dry) - 1 ½ tablespoons

---

Method

• 1. Fry the "For masala powder" Ingredients in half a Teaspoon of oil, till light brown, finally add dry coconut, fry for another one minute and powder it.
• 2. Dice the peeled potatoes, shell peas and pressure cook till it is three fourth cooked.
• 3. Cook dal with rice by adding six cups of water in pressure cooker till soft (10 minutes).
• 4. Soak tamarind and extract thick juice from it.
• 5. Heat oil and fry the peeled onions for 2 to 3 minutes.
• 6. Add tamarind extract and boil till raw flavour goes from it.
• 7. Mix salt, asafoetida, cooked peas, potatoes and powdered spices to this.
• 8. Pour this to the cooked rice mixture as soon as it is removed from pressure cooker.
• 9. Heat ghee, fry the cashew nuts and garnish on top.
• 10. Serve hot with crisp potato chips and onion raita.