Bisibellebath

Read this recipe in Marathi
Servings : 2 to 3 Persons

Ingredients: 

½ cup rice
½ cup split red gram (toor dal)
4-5 cashew nuts 

¼ cup raw peanuts
1 cup finely chopped onion
1 small baby eggplant (cut it into 4 pieces)
2 okra (cut each into 2-3 pieces)
5-6 medium pices of carrots
3-4 green beans(cut it into 2” lenth)
3-4 florets of cauliflower
¼ tspn turmeric powder
½ tspn red chilly powder
4 tspn bisibelle bhat paste (I use MTR)
1 tbspn chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste
For tempering-
2 tbspn oil
¼ Mustard seeds
4-5 curry leaves
¼ tspn asafetida

Method: 

1. Cook wash and soak rice and toor dal together. Add double water and pressure cook them. Cook raw peanuts and cashew nuts with rice and dal.
2.Heat oil in a cookware. Add chopped onion and stir for 3-4 minutes. Add turmeric powder,2 tspn bisibelle bhat paste,1/2 tspn salt and other vegetables. Stir well. Cover cookware with a lid and let the vegetables cook completely.
3. Add cooked rice and dal and gently mix with all the vegetables.
4. Add ½ cup of water. Add salt if required. Add 1 tspn bisibelle paste. Add chilly powder if you want it more spicy.
5. Boil bisibelle bhat for 5 minutes. Add more water if you want it more watery.In south India people make this rice watery.
6. Heat oil in a small saucepan. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves and asafoetida and give tadka to the bisibelle bhat. Serve hot with papad and pickle.