Recipe 494: Vangi Bhath & Chana rice

This is a delicious, healthy and vegan recipe of spiced brinjal rice from the Karnataka cuisine. Vangi means, brinjal, baingan, aubergines or eggplant. Bhath or bath or baath means rice. Preparing vangi bath is very easy. All you need is to cook the rice first. Then prepare the brinjal gravy. Then mix the rice with the brinjal gravy. If you have extra cooked rice or leftover rice, then the vangi bath is quicker to prepare. Chana pulao recipe / Channa rice recipe / Kabuli chana pulao: An easy and nutritional rice based recipe prepared with white chickpeas or Kabuli chana and other spices. Chana pulao is prepared very similar to the other traditional pulao recipe with same ingredients and with an extra topping of boiled chickpeas. Any pulao recipe is great lunch box or tiffin box recipe for both kids and adults. But chana pulao recipe is a great option as it is perfectly balanced one pot meal. Do try these recipes and experience your home made food in restaurant style. #INGREDIENTS #VANGI_BHATH Coriander Seeds - 2 spoon Gram Dal - 1 spoon Urad Dal - 1/2 tsp Fenugreek - less than 1/4 tsp Pepper Seeds - less than 1/4 tsp Cumin Seeds - 3/4 tsp Cinnamon - 2 piece Clove - 4 nos Cardamom - 2 nos Cardamom - 2 nos Grated Coconut - 4 tbsp Asafoetida Powder (GPC) - 1/2 tsp Oil - 4 spoon Mustard - 1/2 tsp Gram Dal - 1 & 1/2 spoon Curry Leaves Brinjal - 7 (Sliced) Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp Salt to taste Tamarind Water - 1/2 glass Boiled Rice Ghee - 1 tsp Coriander Leaves #CHANA_RICE Soaked & Boiled Black Chickpeas Oil - 2 Spoon Ghee - 1 spoon Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp Bay Leaf - 2 nos Cinnamon - 2 nos Clove - 4 nos Cardamom - 2 nos Onion - 1 (Sliced) Grated Ginger - 1/2 inch Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp Coriander Powder - 1 tsp Kashmiri Chilli Powdwer - 1/2 tsp Chole / Chana Masala - 1/2 tsp Garam Masala Powder - 1/4 tsp Tomato - 3 (Chopped) Salt to tate Kasuri Methi - 1 spoon Boiled Rice Coriander Leaves