Bahala Bhath / Bagala Bath / Thayir Sadham

Popularity: Thayir Sadham is almost popular among every house hold. You can add more taste and flavour to Thayir Sadham by mixing some spices and vegetables..this is very common dish served in marriages, parties and buffets. Often referred to as Bahala Bhath / Bagala Bath. Iyers refer to this as Thayir Sadham and Iyengars refer to this as Dhadhionnam / Dahi Annam.

Ingredients:

1. Rice: ½ Azhakku (1/2 cup)
2. Boiled – warm milk: 300 ml
3. A pinch of salt
4. Carrot (2 Medium sized): Grated
5. Green Chilly (Big): 1 – Cut as small pieces
6. Manga Inji / Inji (Ginger): Cut as small pieces – 1 tsp
7. Pomegranate fruit pearls: 1 tbsp (Optional)
8. Green Seedless Grapes (Optional) – 10 numbers
9. Kismis / Dry Grapes: 1 tbsp (Optional)
10. Broken Cashews: 1 tsp (Optional)
11. Curry Leaves
12. Coriander Leaves
13. Curd
14. Oil: 2 tsp
15. Ghee: 1 tsp
16. Mustard: 1 tsp
17. Asafoedita: a pinch

Preparation Procedure:

1. Cook the rice in a pressure cooker by allowing more whistles than you would do for normal rice so that the rice is mash cooked.
2. In a big kadai, add 2 tsps oil and add mustard and while it starts spluttering, add asafoedita, green chillies, ginger pieces and carrot one by one in order allowing few seconds in between each ingredient addition..switch off the stove immediately as soon as you add carrot.
3. Add curry leaves and a pinch of salt.
4. Immediately add the mashed rice to the kadai and keep mixing and mashing the rice along with the seasoned ingredients of the kadai.
5. In a small kadai, using a tsp of ghee, sauté the cashews and dry grapes till they change colour and add this to the rice kadai.
6. Add finely cut coriander leaves to the mashed rice now.
7. Slowly add milk and keep mashing well. Do not add all the milk at one go. Keep adding and mashing.
8. If you are going to use the Bagala Bath only after 4 or 5 hours from the preparation like for lunch recipe, etc then add lot of milk (300 ml) and 1 tbsp of curd alone. If you are going to consume it immediately, then add 200 ml milk and 5 tbsps of curd and mash well.
9. You can further increase or decrease the milk quantity depending on the consistency you would require.
10. Add pomegranate and Green seedless grapes at the end and decorate it.