Category: Rice
Name: BISIBELE BAATH
By : Vimala Babu
Winner
BISIBELEBATH is a Karnataka dish where Bisi means "hot",
Bele means "daals" and Bath means a "Rice dish". The
recipe procedure is as follows:
- Boil 2 cups of Toor Daal until it is finely cooked.
Add the following vegetables (the quantity of each can vary);
Beans, carrotts, peas, potato, tomato, broccoli etc.
After the vegetables are cooked, add Four Table spoons
of MTR Vangibath powder, one table spoon of Tamarind
paste and one table spoon full of freshly
sqeezed Lemon juice, two tea spoons of Brown sugar and
two table spoons of Salt. Slow boil everything for 15
to 20 minutes.
- Add one cup of cooked rice and stir until uniform consistency.
- In a separate pan, heat two table spoons of oil. When
the oil is hot, add a tea spoon of mustard seeds. When
the mustard seeds start to split add a
quarter tea spoon of Hing powder and a few curry leaves.
Add this oil to the daal cooking on a low flame.
Continue heating for another 15 to 20 minutes.
- Adjust it to your taste by adding salt, sugar or freshly
sqeezed lemon juice or more Vangibath powder. Stir for
uniform consistency.
Always serve hot.
Category: Rice
Name: MUSHROOM RICE
By : Jayanti joshi
2nd prize winner
INGREDIENTS :
( NO. of servings : 4 )
- Basmati rice 250 gms
- Large onions 100 gms
- Knob fresh ginger 1”
- Spinach leaves 100 gms
- Cumin seeds 1 tbsp
- Black peppercorns 10
- Salt to taste
- Mushrooms 250 gms
- Cloves garlic 4
- Green chillies 6
- Oil 3 tbsp
- Green cardamom seeds 6
- Cloves 4
METHOD :
- wash the rice
- slice the mushrooms & onions ; crush the garlic ;
chop the ginger , chillies & spinach
- heat a pan , add oil, cumin, cardamoms, peppercorns,
cloves & onions
- sauté till the onions are light brown , the add ginger
and chillies and continue to sauté for a mins.
- the in a pressure cooker, a little oil, mushrooms ,
spinach , rice , salt , and the about mixture; and then add
double the quantity of water . let it cook in the pressure
cooker for 15-20 mins.