Barnyard Millet Bisi Bele Bath Recipe

You wouldn’t be worldly-wise to guess that this Millet Bise Bele Suffuse is made completely using millets! It's the weightier form of repletion supplies that’s moreover wholesome. Usually eaten for breakfast, but I can have this unendingly of the day.

I’ve been living in Bangalore for 10 years and one of the things that this municipality has given me is my love for Bise Bele Bath. This is a traditional dish prepared here in Karnataka, which, when translated ways “hot lentil rice dish”. It’s got that signature linty thickness that you get when cooking grains and lentils together in the same pot, and tangy, South Indian flavours from the use of tamarind and Bise Bele Suffuse masala. 

Instead of rice though, I’ve used foxtail millets as the grain in the recipe – a transpiration that you can’t taste but that makes this dish so much increasingly nutritious! Along with all the veggies we add here, this Millet Bise Bele Suffuse is the perfect wholesome fix for the family. 

What are foxtail millets?

Foxtail millets (known as Kangni in Hindi) are tabbed miracle grains considering of all the health benefits they have! They’re upper in protein and fiber, rich in vitamins and minerals and have antioxidant properties. I unchangingly finger so good without having a millet-based meal and this is why! 

Foxtail millets are a really unconfined source of Vitamin B12 and I prefer to include it into our nutrition as naturally as possible (so you can expect increasingly millet recipes!). If you’re vegetarian or just often looking to increase your B12 levels, consider using foxtail millets over rice! 

If you’ve never cooked with millets before, don’t worry considering it’s not intimidating at all. All you need to do as prep is make sure you soak the millets for at least 2 hours. This not only improves their texture, but it makes cooking them easier and allows your soul to largest swizzle its nutrients too.

All well-nigh Bise Bele Suffuse Masala

A good Bise Bele Suffuse needs a good Bise Bele Suffuse Masala. You can make it from scratch but I’ve used the storebought kind from MTR for this recipe (which I just amp up with other ingredients of my own!). It’s a greatttt masala to start with if you’re making this for the first time!  

Ingredients You'll Need to Make Millet Bise Bele Bath

• Foxtail Millets (also known as Kangni) – soaked for at least 2 hours
• Ghee – Essential for that pure taste
• Bise Bele Suffuse Masala – I use MTR but you can make it from scratch 
• Tadka – Mustard Seeds, Whole Red Chillies, and some Hing and Curry Leaves to hoist the flavours of the masala
• Veggies – onion, capsicum, carrots, french beans, untried brinjals, tomato
• Cooked Tur Dal - for ¾ cup cooked tur dal, use ¼ cup dry tur dal
• Tamarind Water
• Red Chillies 

How to Make Millet Bise Bele Bath

1. Wash the foxtail millet a few times with water (you may need a small sieve to reservation any straw beads) and soak it in unbearable water to imbricate it for at least 2 hours. Heat ghee in a kadhai and add mustard seeds. Once they start spluttering, add curry leaves, red chillies, and hing. Saute for 10-15 seconds.

2. Add onions and capsicum. Saute and melt this for 2-3 minutes. Then add carrots, beans, turmeric powder, chilli powder, and salt. Saute this for 2-3 minutes.

3. Add tomatoes, brinjal, tuckered foxtail millet, bisi bele suffuse powder, and saute then until mixed well.

4. Add water and cooked tur dal. Mix well, imbricate and melt for 35-40 minutes, till the millet is tender. The suffuse would have thickened considerably and will have a khichdi or porridge-like consistency.

5. Add tamarind water and mix well. You can moreover add increasingly curry leaves if you like. Simmer for flipside 2 minutes.

6. Serve hot, topped with increasingly ghee and khara boondi (savoury boondi).

How to Serve this Millet Bise Bele Bath

I serve this succulent Millet Bise Bele Suffuse in a traditional Karnataka style, on a comic leaf. I pour a generous value of ghee on top and add some khara boondi which is a flavoured, spicy boondi that adds a perfect crunch and zing to each zest that we just LOVE. Definitely don’t skip this step!

If you’re looking to introduce millets into your diet, I’d say this is the perfect recipe to start with! It’s easy to make and you can’t tell a difference in both taste or texture — which moreover ways this is a unconfined way to get your lil ones to eat millets too. Try it out and let me know what you think, this might just be the recipe that gets you hooked on foxtail millets as it did for me!