Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 40 min
Serves: 4

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1/4 cup green gram dal or moong dal
2. 1/4 cup toor dal
3. 3/4 cup broken wheat
4. 2 tbsp peanuts or ground nuts
5. 5 beans
6. 1 small carrot
7. 1 small potato
8. 1 small tomato
9. 2 tbsp fresh or soaked green peas
10. 1 small gooseberry sized tamarind
11. 1 small gooseberry sized jaggery
12. 2 tbsp bisi bele bath powder (Or roast and grind the ingredients from the list below)
13. 2 tbsp grated coconut
14. A big pinch of turmeric powder
15. Salt as per your taste

Ingredients required for masala powder (Skip if you have bisibele bath powder):

1. 2-4 red chili
2. 1 tsp chana dal
3. 2 tsp urad dal
4. 1/4 tsp meethi/fenugreek seeds
5. 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
6. 1/2 tsp jeera/ cumin seeds
7. 2 tsp coriander seeds
8. A big pinch of asafoetida
9. 1/2 finger length cinnamon
10. 6 cloves/lavang
11. 1 small cardamom
12. 1 tsp poppy seeds/ khus khus
13. 1/2 tsp cooking oil

Ingredients required for tempering:

1. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
2. 1 tsp chana dal or gram dal
3. 1 tsp urad dal
4. 8-10 cashews
5. 7 - 8 curry leaves
6. A big pinch of turmeric powder
7. A big pinch of asafoetida
8. 4 tbsp ghee or cooking oil

Instructions for making broken wheat bisibele bath:

1. Chop all the vegetables and keep it ready.
2. Take green gram dal (or moong dal), toor dal and peanuts in a pressure cooker. Rinse them well, add in a cup of water and a pinch of turmeric powder.
3. Pressure cook the dal and peanuts. I cooked it by making 2 whistles.
4. Next add in broken wheat and chopped vegetables (beans, carrot, potato). Also add in green peas and chopped tomato.
5. Add in 2 cups of water and cook them until soft or cook them by making 2 more whistles.
6. Meantime, take a frying pan or wok and prepare tempering using oil (or ghee), mustard seeds, chana dal, urad dal and cashews.
7. When the mustard seed splutters, add in curry leaves, turmeric powder and asafoetida. Optionally you can add chopped onion and chopped capsicum.
8. Switch off the stove and add in ground bisibele bath masala powder, salt, jaggery and tamarind extract. Also add in grated coconut. Give a quick mix.
9. Give a quick mix. Tempered masala is ready.
10. Next add in cooked dal, vegetables and broken wheat into the frying pan, which has tempered masala.
11. Add in requied water. Switch on the stove and bring it to boil. Bisi bele bath shall have thin consistency. So adjust the water accordingly.
12. Switch off the stove. Add in a tsp of ghee at the end and serve.

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