Bisi bhela Bhath

Description

Saturday being all veg day, wanted something spicy and comforting. So asked amma to make sambar rice (bisi bhela bhath). Few of my dad’s relatives in Bangalore use whole garam masala whereas my mom doesn’t use it.

Ingredients-1
2 cup	Rice
1 cup	Tur dhal(boiled with a pinch of turmeric and asafoetida and mashed well)
1 cup	Sambar onions
4 nos	Tomatoes (chopped)
	Chopped vegetables – 2 carrots, 1 chow chow, handful of beans, 4 brinjals.
2 nos	Drumstick (boiled and the pulp extracted)
7 nos	Green chillies slit lengthwise

Ingredients-2
1 tsp	Mustard seeds
3 nos	Red chillies
1 tsp	Cumin seeds
3 stks	Curry leaves

Ingredients-3
2 tsp	Channa dhal(kadalai paruppu)
10 nos	Red chillies
3 tbsp	Dry coconut /coprai thengai
2 tsp	Dhania
	Fry the above in little oil and grind to a coarse powder

Instructions

Take a heavy bottom vessel or a pressure cooker and heat oil. add the items to temper.Now add the sambar onions, green chillies and tomato and fry till tomato is soft. Add the cut vegetables and fry for a while till the raw smell goes followed by the drumstick pulp.Finally add in the soaked rice, boiled and mashed tuvar dhal and the masala powder and mix well and check for salt. Add in enough water (1 : 4 rations is also ok as we need it real mushy) and close the cooker lid and wait for 3 whistles.