Bisi Bele Bath - Using MTR Bisi Bele Bath Mix

Ingredients:
2/3 Cup White Rice
1/2 cup Yellow Lentils/ Toor dal/ Thogaribele
2 - 3 tsp MTR Bisi Bele Bath Paste or Powder
1 medium sized Carrot
1 flake of Cauliflower/Gobi
20 - 25 Beans
1/4 cup frozen/soaked Green Peas
1 - 2 tsp broken of Cashews
1 - 2 tsp Bengal Gram seeds / Kadle bele
1 tsp Mustard seeds
5 - 6 Curry leaves
4 tsp Ghee
4 - 5 strands of Coriander leaves
Salt to taste

Recipe:
Chop cauliflower, carrot and beans into small pieces.
Put yellow lentils, rice together in a vessel and wash them for about 2-3 times. Add this in a pressure cooker container. Add chopped vegitables, green peas, around 4 cups of water to the same vessel and cook.(3 - 4 whistles)
Put mustard seeds, bengal gram seeds, cashew nuts, 2 tsp ghee in a thick bottomed pan/vessel and heat. Once it starts spluttering, add curry leaves and cooked rice. Add bisi bele bath paste/powder, salt, required amount of water and bring them to boil. (If you are using the bisi bele bath powder, add the required amount of tamarind water/pulp.) Add 2 tsp ghee, mix them well and keep the bisi bele bath in low flame for about 2-3 mins. Add chopped coriander leaves and mix them well.

Serve hot along with Chips or Mixture. Ingredients mentioned above will serve 5-6 Plates of Bisi Bele Bath.

Set Dosa

Ingredients:

1 Cup White Rice

1/4 cup Blackgram seeds

1/2 cup Avalakki/Poha

1/2 cup Curd/Yogurt

10 Fenugreek seeds/Methi/Menthe

Salt to taste

Oil/Ghee

Recipe:

Soak rice, blackgram seeds, fenugreek seeds together in water for about 6-7 hrs. Wash soaked ingredients 2-3 times and keep it aside.

Grind soaked ingredients along with avalakki/poha into smooth thick batter by adding sufficient amount of water. Keep it in warm place for fermentation for about 10-12 hrs.

Add salt, curd to this batter and mix it well. If batter is too thick add sufficient amount of water. The consistency of the batter should be that of milkshake.

Heat the Tava(Iron Tava preferred). Put small round dosas as shown in the picture below.(Just pour the batter, don't spread it.) Add 1 tsp of oil/ghee on top of dosas, cover it in a lid and cook it for a minute in medium flame. Cook other side of the dosas as well for about 1 min.

Serve hot with any chutney or sambar. Ingredients mentioned above will serve 6-7 plates of Set Dosas.