Bese bela bath (Hot Sambar Rice)

Ingredients
(Serves four persons)

Raw rice 1 Cup
Gingelly oil ½ cup
Toor dhal ½ Cup
Tamarind 2 lemon size
Water 6 to 7 cups
Salt – required amount as per your taste
Finely chopped small onions - 1no
Ground nuts – 1 table spoon.
Curry leaves, mustard (to garnish)
Cooked vegetables (optional) Potato, carrot, beans (washed and finely chopped) peas.

Sambar powder – Red chilies 12 to 15 nos. Coriander seeds ½ cup,Red gram dhal 2 tea spoon., Fenugreek 1 tea spoon, Finely grated dry coconut (kopra) half shell, cinnamon sticks 3 to 4 pieces, Cloves buds 3 nos, Marathi moghu 3 nos.

Heat oil in dry pan. Fry cloves, cinnamon marathi moghu separately. Now fry red chilies, coriander seeds, red gram dhal and fenugreek to light brown. Add finely grated kopra and remove from flame. The fried items to be finely ground and kept aside.

Preparation of Bese bela bath.

Wash rice and dhal and cook it together in a pressure cooker(5 to 6 whistles). Soak tamarind in water and get its extract. Cook vegetables separately. Take cooked rice and dhal in a pan and place it on a sim flame. Add thick tamarind extract and salt. Mix it well. Add cooked vegetables, little water (if very thick) and sambar powder with constant stirring. Heat it on sim flame still it boils.

In another pan add oil and fry onions and ground nuts separately. Garnish with mustard and curry leaves. 

Delicious and spicy Bese bela bath is ready.