Bisi Bele Huli Anna | How to make Bisi Bele Bath
Bisi Bele Huli Anna or Bisi Bele Bath is a traditional rice dish from Karnataka. This makes a delicious complete healthy meal on its own as it has rice, lentils and vegetables.
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
For the Rice
- 1 cup Rice
- 1/2 cup Toor Dal
- 6 cups Water
- 50 gms Shallot / Sambar Onions
- 2 tbsp Tamarind extract / size of a lemon
- A Pinch Turmeric powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp Ghee
Vegetables used:
- 1 cup Mixed Vegetables Beans, Carrot, Potato and Peas each
Masala to be ground
- 4 tbsp Coconut grated
- 4 to 5 nos Dry Red Chillies
- 2 tsp Coriander Seeds
- 1/4 tsp Pepper Corns
- 2 inch Cinnamon
- 2 Maretti Moggu (if you don't have, not use cloves)
- 1 tsp Urad dal / Black gram
- 1 tsp Chana Dal / Bengal gram
- A Pinch Asafoetida
For Seasoning
- 3 tbsp Ghee
- 1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds
- 2 sprigs Curry Leaves
- 10 nos Cashewnuts
Instructions
- Wash the Toor dal and cook with 1 cup of water in a cooker with turmeric and a drop of oil. Pressure cook for 2 whistles, let the pressure fall down.
- Wash and soak the rice for 10 mins.
- Cut all the vegetables and keep aside.
- Heat a pan and with little oil, roast the all the ingredients listed for powder and let it cool. Grind to a fine powder.
- Once the pressure is released from the dal, add all the ingredients along with rice. Pour the remaining water and add salt. Pour 1 tbsp of ghee and cover it with lid and put it for 3 whistles.
- Remove the lid when is pressure has gone down. Put it on high flame if its little watery.
- Heat a kadai with ghee and fry the seasoning.
- Pour on the Bisi Bele Huli Anna and serve hot.
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