Bisibele bath

"Bisibele bath" is nothing but "Arachuvitta Sambhar" with a lot of vegetables, mixed with rice and mashed. Growing up, this used to be one of the regular Sunday dishes that my mom used to make, with a combination of Roasted Potato Onion curry to go with :)

Bisebela Bath

Ingredients

Tamarind (Puli) - 3-4 pieces of 50 cent(paise) size

Toor Dhall (Tuvaram Paruppu) - 1/2 cup

Sambhar Powder - 1 - 2 tbsp

Salt (Uppu)- 1/2 teaspoon (add to taste)

Turmeric (Manjal Podi)

Red Chili (Kaintha cheppu milagai) - 2-3

Curry Leaves (Karuveppilai)- 4-5 leaves

Asofoetida powder(Perungaya podi) - 1/4 teaspoon

Mustard seeds (kadugu) - 1/2 teaspoon

Carrot - 1/2 cup sliced

Onion ( vengayam) - 1/2 cup diced into small pieces

Potato (urulai kizhangu)- 1/2 cup diced into cubes (2'' X 2'')

Beans - 1/2 cup french cut

Rice (arisi)- 1 cup

Procedure

1) Pressure cook rice & toor dhall and the vegetables(carrot, beans, potato, onions). Take about 1-1.5 cups extra water than you usually do to cook rice. You can use any vegetables that you like in addition to the above.

2) Boil Tamarind in 2 cups of water for 10-15 minutes and extract the juice by squeezing the tamarind(after it cools down). Remove the tamarind remains(chakkai) using a strainer(vadikatti).

3) Heat 1-2 spoons of cooking oil in a sauce pan or wok style pan. Add Asofoetida and mustard seeds and let it pop. Add the tamarind extract to the saucepan and boil it with salt, turmeric and sambar powder.

4) In another pan, dry fry red chillies, asofoeteida, coriander seeds, chana dhall and let the ingredients cool down a bit. Grind this with coconut and little water to form a paste.

5) After tamarind water boils for about 10-15 minutes, add this paste & allow it to boil. Garnish with curry leaves

6) Mash the cooked rice/vegetables. Add the tamarind mixture slowly to the rice and mix it in.

Bisebele Bath is ready to serve. Serve with potato chips/Vadam or potato curry.

Servings: 3-4