Ingredients

• 2 cups - rice
• 1/2 - coconut
• 2 tsp - coriander seeds
• 1.5 tsp - channa dhal (Bengal gram dhal)
• 1 tsp - urad dhal (black gram dhal)
• 2 - cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp - cumin seeds
• 6 - pepper corns (dried)
• 8-10 - red chillies
• 2 - onions (big)
• 1 tsp - turmeric powder
• Tamarind - as per taste
• 2 tbsp - ghee

How to Make Bise Bela Bhath

• Wash rice and dhal properly and cook in a pressure cooker, adding little turmeric powder and salt.
• Cook the vegetables separately with salt.
• Fry small onions until they are light brown in colour.
• Extract tamarind pulp and boil it till raw flavour is lost.
• Now, fry all the ingredients for grinding [adding grated coconut in the end] in a tablespoon of ghee.
• Grind them into a fine paste adding little water.
• Take a thick bottomed big vessel and put in the cooked rice and dhal, cooked vegetables, fried onions, ground paste and the tamarind pulp.
• Keep it on medium heat mixing it now and then.
• When well blended adjust salt and remove.
• Now take 1/4 cup ghee in a pan and let it heat on low flame.
• When hot add broken cashewnuts and curry leaves. As the cashews become brown pour them over the Bise Bele Bhath.
• Serve hot with potato raita and crisp chips.