This is my last entry for RCI Karnataka! I know all of you will be wondering , why so late! I could get the authentic recipes for these preparations only now!:)) The main ingredient used is Urali Kaalu ( horse gram)
Bas Saaru
Ingredients
- Horse gram – 1 cup
- Turmeric powder – 1/8 teaspoon
- Onion – 1 medium
- Tamarind – 2 inch piece
- Tomato – 1 medium
- Garlic – 2 pods
- Curry leaves – 1 twig
- Pepper corn – 1 teaspoon
- Jeera (cumin seeds – 1 teaspoon
- Red chillies – 2 nos
- Oil – 2 teaspoons
- Grated coconut – 1 tablespoon
- Salt – to taste
- Coriander leaves – 1 twig
Method
- Wash and pressure cook the horse gram with 2 cups water and turmeric powder.
- Cut the onions and tomatoes roughly. Heat oil in a kadai, fry the red chillies.
- Add the onions and tomatoes and keep stirring on a low flame.
- Add curry leaves, garlic and grated coconut and fry for 2 more minutes. Allow to cool.
- Grind this mixture with tamarind, peppercorns and jeera to a fine paste.
- Add 1 cup water to the pressure cooked horse gram. Strain the water(stock) in to a MW safe container. The whole cooked gram will be used for the palya.
- To the horse gram water(Stock) add salt and the ground paste and MW high for 5 minutes.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Serve hot with rice and ghee.
Bas palya
Ingredients
- Cooked horse gram after stock is strained for the saaru.
- Onion – 1 medium Finely chopped
- Grated coconut- 2 table spoons
- Green chillies – 2 nos finely chopped
- Salt- to taste
- Oil- 2 teaspoons
- Curry leaves – 1 twig
- Mustard seeds – 1/2 teaspoon
Method
- Heat oil in a kadai. Add mustard seeds. When it crackles add onions, green chillies and curry leaves and saute on a low flame.
- Add coconut and saute for 1 more minute. Add the cooked horse gram and salt and saute for 2 more minutes on a medium flame.
- Your bas palya is ready.
Thank you Latha. I love Huruli kalu bassaru. Looks delicious. I do get dry Huruli kalu here!:))
I will take it, thanks again:)
Looks lovely, My friend makes something similar to this but with green gram and she adds milk to it…
Loved this authentic palya recipe
Looks delicious dear…..Will try out these recipes 🙂
sound delicious and healthy. must try sometime!
Wow Latha, I love this recipe. I make this all the time, except for the saaru I don’t add onions. BTW, isn’t it painful to boil the horsegram. It seems to take forever.
I was thinking how come Latha has not yet posted about RCI!!:) and it’s right here:)
great spread Latha, and now I’m eagerly waiitng for the ganesh chaturthi roundup!!! can’t wait for all those sweets!!!:D
Kollu appalam is my favourite. Never had fresh gram though!
We too prepare Kollu rasam Kollu dosai etc. Correct? Nice recipes. Viji
Kollu is very healthy ..my mom always insist us to take a little,little in our daily meals…
Didn’t tried yet..but surely I have to bookmark this and make…:))Thanx for the recipe..!
two good recipes! will try them sometime…
Another delicious recipe here!
I also like bas saaru made from toor dal , cabbage, and french beans.
Thank you!
Late a vandhalum latest entry..:)
Both saaru and palya look so yummy..:D. I am on a horsegram hunt now..:) thanks for the recipes lathamma…
-Siri
Healthy and delicious recipe..
My granny used to make something like this. But I’ve never tried it before. Your pic of hot bas palya is making my stomach rumble.
thanks a lot, i was fed up making ordinary bella sara and other dal sambars. my wife had refused to give recipe of bus sara thinking that it will be difficult for me to prepare it . but you have provided this reciepe thanks a lot for your website because at present i am staying far away from my family due to my transfer but from website i am happy to some extent my mother and wife are together to help me in preparing my favourite karnataka recipes. carry on your good activities like this in future also
hi,
i stumbled on ur blog when i was searching for a recipe for bas saaru. I just wanted to make a correction. The recipe you have here is for “Upp Saaru” and not “Bass saaru”.
I am a Gowda and Bass saaru and upp saaru used to be my staple food .
Thanks for the reciepe….now am goign to try this today but with bengal gram…my friend, sushma does this real well and she does it with black eyed bean…i guess any of the lentils can be used for the same.
Thanks a lot. I have used it twice and both times it turned out great. My wife is impressed!