Bisi Bele Bhat – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take rice into a cooker.
• Add dal and wash it really good 2-3 times.
• You can use 1/4 cup tur dal & 1/4 cup moong dal too.
• Add water, sliced onion, tomato and close the lid.
• Cook on medium heat until 3 whistles.
• Heat up a pan on medium heat.
• Add chana dal, urad dal, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, black peppercorns, cloves, dried red chilies, curry leaves, shredded dry coconut and mix well.
• Roast on low to medium heat for about 3-4 minutes.
• Turn off the gas and add fenugreek seeds.
• Mix well and let it cool down a little.
• Transfer everything into a blender jar and blend it into powder.
• Bisi bele bhat masala is already. 
• In a bowl take water and add tamarind pulp.
• Add masala and mix well.
• Open the cooker and mix the cooked rice once.
• Add French beans, carrot, green peas and mix well.
• You can add potao and navalcol if you want.
• Add the masala mixture and mix well.
• Close the lid and cook on medium heat until just 1 whistle.
• Open the lid and mix well.
• Add salt, capsicum and mix well.
• Cook on medium heat for another 3-4 minutes.
• Heat up ghee in a tadka pan.
• Add mustard seeds and let them pop up.
• Add hing, dry red chilies, curry leaves, cashew nuts and fry for about a minute.
• Transfer the tadka on the rice and mix well.
• Bisi bele bhat is already.
• You can have this as it is.