BISI BELE BHATH l BISI BELE HULIANNA l MASALA BHATH

Bisi bele bhath is a spicy, rice-based dish with origins in the state of Karnataka, India. Bisi bele bhath, which translates to 'hot lentil rice dish' in Kannada language, is a wholesome meal. It is said to have originated in the Mysore Palace and from there spread across the entire state.
  
I love this dish  as one of my neighbour used to give me this.  It is a dish which includes the dals and vegetables along with rice.

I have used the masalas of my version and not the original one.  If anybody is not finding time to prepare the authentic masala, then they can opt for my method of preparing it.

I shall give below the original version also.

I love to eat this rice along with Pappadams, Appalams, Karuvadam and Onion Raita.

Bisibele Bhath

When I was carrying my daughter, I was craving for this dish.  I told one of my colleague to make it because she was from Karnataka, she said she does not know how to make it.  Finally, before my delivery, I  happened to be to my  family Doctor's house in the night when she was ready to eat her dinner.  She just asked me casually, Raji, Bisibela bhat khayegi, before she could finish the sentence, I  ran to her kitchen, pulled out a plate and took out some rice out of the cooker.  She gave me some karuvadam, vadiyum, papad etc. to eat along with it.  Piping hot from the cooker, I really enjoyed it.

When I checked with her the recipe, it was a long process.  Today, I wanted to make it as I was running short of time and everyone was hungry.  So I decided to make it and the recipe is here.  I adopted a simple method and it was lovely.

If you see the ingredients of the recipes in any of the sites, you will get a long list.  All those ingredients are included in the Garam masala except one or two.    So I decided to make  this way.

While preparing in the cooker, must ensure that it does not get burnt from the bottom.  or you can cook the same directly on a thick bottom vessel which you can check very often.


Let us look at the recipe now:

                                      
                                     Bisibele Hulianna l Bisibele Bhat

                                  Broken wheat Bisibele bhat l Lapsi Bisibele Bhat

COCONUT RICE, THENGA SAADAM, NARIYAL BHATH

As I have already briefed in my post of Thayir saadam or curd rice, many varieites of rice are prepared for Aadi Perukku.  Coconut rice is one among them.  It is a flavourful dish for tiffin box as well as sitting at home you can enjoy with papad or karuvadam or kurudai.  Baiscally rice is mixed with the coconut and tempered with mustard seeds and urid dal and fried kajus especially in coconut oil, i love this.

Coconut rice, thenga saadam

CURD RICE, YOGHURT RICE, THAYIR SADAM

To day is Aadi perukku or Pathinettam perukku. festival of Tamil nadu.  I do not have to elaborate much about this festival as all the Tamilians are aware of the importance of this festival.  However, for others, I  have to brief little bit about it.

During this festival varieties of rice  are made for the neivedyam out of which one is curd rice.   Curd rice is cool and any time it is good for the stomach.

South Indian meal is incomplete without Curd Rice.  After having the sambar, rasam rice and the payasam (Kheer), we await for the curd rice to relish with some pickle or puli inji (inji curry).  It is good in summer as it has got a cooling effect in the stomach. 

In olden days, people used to keep the left over rice in water and next day morning, they add some salt and asafetida and curd  or butter milk in it and with hand nicely smash the rice.  This is watery and they drink a glass or two of this before setting out for their work.  Normally,  we  consider it  as a good breakfast.  Even I remember, my mother used to give to us before going to school.  It is really filling and tasty especially of the brown rice.

Now coming to the point of making curd rice.

CORIANDER RICE (KOTHAMALLI SADAM, KOTHMIR BAATH, CILANTRO RICE)

Coriander rice is made with  coriander leaves, cashews, white sesame seed, green chilli etc.  It is a tasty and healthy rice , easy to make and can be served with raita, papad and pickle.  Coriander leaves provides minerals, vitamin A, C and is good for the people who are  suffering from  cholesterol and diabetes.

Coriander rice with raita

INDIAN GOOSEBERRY RICE (AMLA RICE, NELLIKKA SADAM, AVAL BAATH)

Gooseberry is rich sourc of vitamin C.   It controls diabetis as such one gooseberry in a day is given to my husband in the morning.  It can be preserved in salt water and start using it within a week.  pickles, chutney, sweet pickle, candies etc. can be made with this.    It also has gallic acid, tannic acid, sugar, albumen, calcium, protein, phosphorus, carbohydrates, irons etc.  It has got several medicinal values.

Gooseberry rice is another variety of rice preprations.  If you have cooked rice, then the process of making the rice is easy.  Otherwise, you need little extra time to cook the rice.

health-benefits-of-indian-gooseberry.html     refer the link for health benefits.

PUMPKIN PARIPPU PODI SADAM (RICE

Pumpkin parippu podi sadam is  made with plain rice and mixed with the parippu podi in it with seasme oil or ghee.  Parippu podi is normally made with tuvar dal, red chilli black pepper asafoetida etc.  There are variation in making this podi.  Some peope also add kollu i.e. kulith or horsegram it is known as.

Here I tried thesame with pumpkin seeds as it has got many health benefits.  Parippu podi is handy when you are lazy to cook sometimes.  Just make plain rice and add the podi in it with ghee or oil and serve with roasted papad.

The pumpkin pariuppu podi sadam is given below.  You can relish this any time. 

TOMATO RICE

Tomato rice is prepared with plain rice and the tomato paste.  tomato paste is made with onion and tomato with red chilli powder in it.   How to make tomato paste: tomato paste.  We make various kind of rice  - lime rice, coconut rice, puliyodare, etc.

Tomato rice is one of the favourite dish in my house as my children prefer it any time.  It is very easy to make even if you do not have the tomato paste with you.

We need fully ripe red tomatoes for this then only the colour of the same will look beautiful and attractive.  So while choosing tomato for the tomato rice, kindly keep this in mind.

Tomato rice

LIME RICE (ELUMICHAI SADAM)

Lime rice or nimbu bhaath or elumichai sadam is flavoured rice with lime juice.  This is also known as one of the Chitrannams.

We make lot of rice preparations with lovely flavours viz. vegetable pulao, kichadi, okra rice, curd rice, lime rice, the list is endless.  In South side, varieties of rice are being made specially for the Aadi Peruku or Pathinettam Perukku during the month of Adi i.e. Mid July to Mid August.

 Lime rice is  very easy to make, can be served with papad, wafers etc.  If you have left over rice, it can be made easily.  what you need is green chilly, lime and curry leaves  in your hand.