Recipe of bisi bela bath with video
Bisi bela bath – a delicious meal comprising of rice, lentils and vegetables. Bisi bela
bath or Sambar rice is a very popular, traditional South Indian, one pot meal from
the Karnataka cuisine. Infact, it is a signature dish of the MTR chain of restaurants.
Everybody in my family loves it a lot. I made this last week for the Singapore
food blogger’s potluck party and we all enjoyed it.
I learnt this recipe from my mother about ten years back. After several attempts, I
am not satisfied with the outcome. Cooking Bisi bela bath takes time and we need
patience to get the right consistency. An authentic Karnataka style Bisi Bela Bath
includes a few more spices like cinnamon and star anise. Since, I am not
particularly fond of these spices in the Sambar rice I have customized it to my liking.
Usually, dry coconut or kopra is added to enhance the flavor of this dish. However,
it can also be made using fresh coconut. Also check out,
Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 40 Mins |Serves: 4-5
Mixed Vegetables* 2 cups
Rice 3/4 cup
Toor dal 1/3 cup
Sambar powder 1 and 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
Salt as needed
Small onions | shallots 1/2 cup
Tamarind extract from a small lemon sized tamarind 2 cups
Oil 2 tblsp + 3 tsp
Ghee 1 tbsp
Cashew nuts few
Peanuts few (optional)
Curry leaves few
Asafoetida 2 pinches
Mustard seeds 1/2 tsp
To roast and grind
Dhaniya | Coriander seeds 2 tblsp
Channa dal 2 tblsp
Red chili 5-6
Kopra or fresh coconut 1/4 cup
Tomato 1
*I used chow chow, carrot, beans and green peas. You can use finely chopped cabbage, radish, turnip and potatoes too.
Method:
- In a pan add 1/2 tsp of oil and add the dhaniya, channa dal and red chili. Roast till golden brown.
- Switch off the flame and add the kopra and tomato.
- Let this be in the heat for a while.
- Grind this into a fine paste. You can add water while grinding.
- In a pressure cooker cook the rice and toor dal using 4 cups of water for 6-7 whisltes.
- Mash this with a ladle and keep aside.
- In a pressure cooker add 2 tblsp of oil (cooking oil + sesame oil) and add mustard seeds.
- Once it splutters add in the small onions. You can use finely chopped big onion too.
- Once the onions turn pink add the veggies. Mix well and saute for 2 minutes.
- Keep the tamarind extract ready. Add the tamarind water to this.
- Add in the sambar powder, asafoetida, salt and turmeric powder.
- Let this boil for 2 minutes.
- Add in the ground paste and the mashed rice and toor dal mixture.
- Mix well without any lumps and add 1/2 cup of water and 3 tsp of sesame oil and cover the cooker.
- Pressure cook till 1 whistle and keep in low flame for 10 minutes.
- Add ghee in a small pan and add the cashew nuts and peanuts(if adding).
- Cook till golden brown and add to the bisibelabath. Mix well.
- Add curry leaves and serve hot with appalam | vadam | raita.
- I love bisibelabath with avakkai pickle.
Note:
- You can any veggie of your choice.Generally we can add cabbage, turnip,potato.
- If you do not want to add cashew nuts add only hot ghee tin the last.
- If you want the cinnamon flavour in the bisibelabath, you can add a small piece of cinnamon stick while roasting.
BBB is our all time favorite, looks yumm!
the ultimate comfort food..looks great
Simple yet very delicious,would love to have this anyday..
Looks yum and taste too :)….
Wow looks heavenly…luv sambar rice anytime. Ur version sounds tasty…luved the first click very much!
This is my favourite dear!!! Urs look very comforting and the pics are so nice….
Love BBB anytime..looks super yummy…Nice dish for the get together's
Looks yummy, this is my favorite too…
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Got the verdict from prema,this sambar rice tasted yum..thank u for the recipe,jeyashri…
nice click jeys … BBB is my favourite too .. Gonna try ur version today 🙂
delicious tasty rice
I too follow the same way .. Looks nice .. Saw the blogger meet fotos.was nice 🙂
Wowie,it was smelling awesome Jeyashri,nice clicks of the sambar rice! I too love the BBB without the whole spices like cinnamon,cloves and all those 😉
a favourite at home..looks delicious..
wow!yummy sambar rice….all time favourite…nice click!
I love it simply….. looks heavenly and mouth watering…..
perfect comfort food!
Looks so tempting !!
Sounds great..never tried this yet..will surely give this a try.
I simply love it 🙂 yummmm.. One of the best treasured recipe of south nu sollalam.. I am a crazy fan of it.
Lovely click dear 🙂
I second nithya… love it very much and anytime of the day. Simply gorgeous looking and making me drool and mouthwatered jeyashri.
I love bisibelabath and the 1st click is really good 🙂
Present miss!!….:P
yum…perfect for the dull weather weve been having.
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Thank you friends for ur encouraging comments.
@raks,i too dont like adding cinnamon /clove in this.
@thakkudu.:Noted
@sujalTry this and sure u will love this
In a huggy burry,i missed this bisi,my fav…luks so tempting…will try this version.
Perfect texture.
Bisi bella bath is my all time fav. Yummy. love to eat it with fried appalams/papads.
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Making this now for dinner 🙂
Hi
I am doing my version today. The only difference is i am cooking the rice and Dal together. This the the traditional bangalore version. Instead of coconut we add copra, add sundaikkai roasted in ghee. It will add to the taste. Hope u like this version too.
@ Rama ji – This receipe's name itself kannada only. 'bishi bishi' in kannada means very hot. 🙂
Thanks.Going to do it.
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Done today.. Yippie after a long time.. Thnx for ds jeyshri 🙂
Thank u Jayeshree for this wonderful ,aromatic and yummy recipe….done it today as there was a potluck at my husband's office….it's tasting wow!!!! thank u for posting ..
I always keep on going through ur recipe index and it helps me various ways in kitchen to serve my husband ….we are south Indian so we both love your recipes.
tried it and coming in a very good way
ur recipes are awesome mouth watering………. and i have become my husbands fav cook only because of ur recipes
It goes well with aaviyal,we add koprai,nice clicks.
It goes well with aaviyal,we add koprai,nice clicks.
Love your blog.. especially the guest series