Foxtail Millet bisibelebath | Thinai bisibelabath recipe | One pot meal
Millet bisibelebath is a complete healthy meal, a one-pot meal, prepared with any kind of millet, toor dal and vegetables using the pressure cooker.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Foxtail millet (thinai)
- ¼ cup toor dal
- 3 ½ to 4 cups water
- 3 tsp oil
- ½ tsp mustard
- ½ tsp jeera seeds
- ¼ tsp asafoetida
- 4 garlic pods
- Few curry leaves
- 1 onion or 6 shallots
- 1 large tomato
- ¼ tsp fenugreek powder/seeds
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- 3 tsp sambar powder
- ½ cup avarakkai or any beans
- ½ cup carrot
- ½ cup brinjal/Raw banana/Ash gourd
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ghee
Instructions
Preparation:
- Wash Thinai and toor dal properly two to three times.
- Soak them together with enough water for 30 minutes.
- Rinse and chop the vegetables and keep aside.
Recipe to make Foxtail Millet bisibelabath:
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add mustard and cumin seeds.
- Add asafoetida, fenugreek seeds/powder garlic and curry leaves.
- Let mustard seeds splutter and add chopped onions.
- Saute onions and add tomato.
- Cook tomatoes soft and add chopped vegetables one by one.
- Also, add turmeric powder and sambar powder.
- Pour water, add required salt and bring it to boil.
- If you are using brinjal add them at last.
- When water comes to full boiling add soaked Thinai with toor dal.
- Mix well, cover and pressure cook for five to six full whistles.
- Let the pressure drop on its own, open lid, add ghee, mix and mash.
- Serve hot with papad, Potato fry or Brinjal fry or simple pickle.
Notes
Tips: 1) Always soak millets and dal for easy soft cooking. If you are in a hurry to skip soaking, then add an extra cup of water and give two extra whistles. 2) Bisibelabath may be semi-solid immediately after done. Later it becomes thick.
Nutrition
Calories: 350kcal
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