Bisi Bele Bath Feast
A hearty Karnataka one-pot rice dish where rice and toor dal simmer with carrot, peas, and potato in a tangy tamarind-spiced masala, finished with ghee.
Ingredients
Garnish
- Coriander Leaves (optional) (garnish) — 2 tbsp (chopped)
Main
- Toor Dal — 100 g
- Tamarind — 20 g
- green peas — 36 g
- rice — 200 g (ground)
- coriander powder — 1 tsp (ground)
- Potato — 120 g
- Turmeric Powder — 0.5 tsp (ground)
- salt (optional) (whole)
- Carrot — 80 g
- Ghee — 60 g (whole)
- Red Chilli Powder (Lal Mirch) — 1 tsp (ground)
Tempering
- Cumin Seeds — 2.65 g
- Coconut Oil — 2 tbsp (whole)
Method
- Heat the Coconut Oil in a heavy-bottomed pot and add the Cumin Seeds, letting them splutter for 30 seconds.
- Add the Carrot, Potato, and green peas, and sauté for 3-4 minutes.
- Add the rice and Toor Dal, and stir for a minute to coat with the tempering.
- Add the Turmeric Powder, Red Chilli Powder, coriander powder, and salt, and mix well.
- Add water (about three times the volume of the rice and dal) and bring to a boil.
- Cover and cook on medium-low flame for 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the rice and dal turn soft and mushy.
- Soak the Tamarind in warm water for 10 minutes, extract the pulp, and stir it into the pot.
- Simmer for another 5 minutes so the tamarind flavour infuses through.
- Finish by stirring the Ghee through the top.
- Garnish with Coriander Leaves and serve hot.
Common questions
- What is ಬಿಸೀ ಬೇಲೇ ಬಾಥ ಭೋಜ in English?
- ಬಿಸೀ ಬೇಲೇ ಬಾಥ ಭೋಜ is written Bisi Bele Bath Feast in English.
- How many calories in one plate of Bisi Bele Bath Feast?
- 522 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 50 min — 20 min prep, 30 min cooking.