Bisi Bele Bath

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup

Toor Dal - 1/2 cup

Mixed vegetables - 1 1/2 cup (any vegetables of your choice) I used carrot, beans, potato, okra, tomato, green peas

Onion (medium) - 1, chopped length wise

Sambar Powder - 1 tbsp

Tamarind pulp - 3 tbsp

Turmeric - pinch

Salt - as per taste

Water - 3+1+1 cups

Oil - 2 tbsp

Ghee - 1 tbsp

To prepare spice powder:

Chana dal - 2 tbsp

Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp

Red chillies - 3-4

Dry coconut powder - 2 tbsp

For seasoning:

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tbsp

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tbsp

Fenugreek seeds - 1/8 tbsp

Hing - pinch

Procedure:

1. Wash, clean and boil rice with 3 cups of water and set aside (Normally we cook 1 cup rice with 2 cups of water. But in this recipe the rice should be over cooked).
2. Similarly cook toor dal separately with 1 cup of water and a pinch of turmeric. 
3. Take a kadai, heat oil, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and let them splutter. Then add fenugreek seeds, hing and stir well for 1 minute.
4. Add chopped onion and saute until they are transparent. Add mixed vegetables and saute them until they are 80 percent cooked.
5. Add tamarind juice, salt and let them boil for for few minutes. Mean while, take a small pan, heat oil, add chana dal, coriander seeds, red chillies and fry them. Let them cool for few minutes and blend together with dry coconut powder to get a slightly coarse powder.
6. Add this spice powder and sambar powder to the cooked vegetables and mix well. 
7. Take a pressure cooker, add cooked rice, mashed toor dal, spicy vegetable mixture, 1 cup of water and stir well. Close it and cook under very low flame for 10-15 minutes without placing the whistle or weight. 
8. Finally add some ghee and mix well. Serve hot with papad or vadiyalu.