Bisebela Bath: In easy 4 steps

A famous dish from Karnataka has come to serve your tummy with awesome and classy ingredients, in just 4 easy steps!!

 It’s a kind of sambar variety, that adds some magic to the default taste and makes it more yummy.

There are many varieties and variations of ingredients used for this sambar in and around, but so far this particular recipe, ingredients and measurement gave the best taste and got me many many appreciations from my dears!!

So pleaseeeeeeeeeeee don’t miss it and enjoy your bisebela bath with your loved ones!!

Tasty Bisebela bath in 4 easy steps:

·         Rice & Dhall

·         Bisebela bath special powder

·         Chopped Vegetables

·         Tamarind and Tomato extract

RICE AND DHALL: [Toor dhal/thuvaram paruppu, asafetida/perungayam and rice]

·         3/4 th : 2 is the ratio—where 3/4^th is toor dhal and 2 is rice. Wash and soak rice and dhal together for 15 mins and pressure cook it with 1/2 tspn turmeric powder, straightly on cooker for 4 whistles. NO NEED TO ADD SALT.

BISEBELA BATH SPECIAL POWDER: [roast and grind with 1 tspn of oil]

• Coriander seeds/dhaniya: 2 handfull 
• urad dhal: 2 tspn; 
• jeeragam/cumin seeds: 1 tspn; 
• black pepper/milagu: 1 tspn;
• methi seeds/venthayam: 1tspn; 
• kashmiri mirch/kashmiri red less hot chilly: 4-5nos; 
• regular red chilly: 2 nos; 
• pattai/cinnamon: 3 medium pieces; 
• shredded coconut: 1 small cup

CHOPPED VEGETABLES: [I prefer only small or big onion and tomato/ you can also add other sambar veggies]

·         Onions: 3-4 big size ; chopped [or] small onions/ shallots: 150 gms / 1 small bowl ; washed and peeled.

·         Tomato: 3  medium ; chopped

“If you are using other veggies like beans, carrot, small onions/shallots, brinjal/kathirikkai, pumpkin/parangikkai/manjal-poosani, drumstick/murungaikkai etc, reduce the onion to 1 [big size]. Don’t reduce the no. of tomato.”

TAMARIND AND TOMATO EXTRACT:[gooseberry/nellikai sized tamarind and 2 big tomatoes]

·         Soak a gooseberry sized tamarind in 3 tumblers hot water and extract its juice.

·         Either, using hands, extract the tomatoes by adding a tumbler of water or make the tomatoes into paste using mixie and mix the paste in 2 tumblers of water and keep them ready.

OTHER INGREDIENTS:

·         Gingelly oil: 4-5 tbspn

·         Ghee: 4-5 tspn [if u like ghee, you can add more as per your taste]

·         Turmeric powder: 1/2 tspn

·         Regular sambar powder: 1.5 tspn

·         Salt: as required

·         Mustard seeds/ kadugu: to temper

·         Curry Leaves: a few; for tempering and for garnishing.

·         Coriander leaves: a few for garnishing.

METHOD:

1.       Keep the above 4 basic things ready.

2.       YOU NEED TOTALLY 2 TO 2.5 LITRES OF THIS SAMBAR. SO MAKE IT ACCORDINGLY. My measurements would give you 1.5 litres or so. For the rest you need to dilute accordingly. This sambar should not be very thick. It should be in a diluted state only. 2 to 2.5 litres of this sambar is enough for given rice.

3.       Take your regular sambar vessel/kadai. Heat it, add 3 tbspn gingelly oil and 2 tspn of ghee. Temper mustard seeds and curry leaves.

4.       Add chopped onions, sauté for 2 mins, add chopped tomatoes, sauté for 2 mins. Add turmeric powder. Add 1 tumbler of water to it and let it boil.

5.       After 2 mins, add the tamarind and tomato extract to it, Add salt [for entire dish, remember you have unsalted rice and dhal on the other side]. Add your regular sambar powder. And add the “bisebela bath special powder”. Keep about 2 spoons of this powder to sprinkle it lastly in rice.

6.       Let it boil for 5-7 mins or until the raw smell goes off.

7.       Add curry leaves and coriander leaves to garnish.

8.       Open the cooker that contains cooked rice and dhal, by this time pressure would’ve released. Mash the rice and dhall.

9.       Add this sambar little by little to the rice and dhal. Mix them well, rice and dhal must be hot, so it will absorb more sambar, so let it cool after mashing for 2-3 mins under fan. Then add sambar and mix them.

10.   At last, add the remaining measures of ghee and gingelly oil to it and mix well. Now add that 2 spoons bisebela bath special powder to this as mentioned in step 5. Serve hot with potato curry or appalam.

Tasty tasty Bisebela Bath is ready!!!