Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 min
Serves: 1 cup

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 10 - 15 red chilies (medium spiced)
2. 4 tsp chana dal or gram dal
3. 8 tsp urad dal
4. 1 tsp meethi or fenugreek seeds
5. 1 tsp mustard seeds
6. 2 tsp jeera or cumin seeds
7. 8 tsp coriander seeds
8. 1/4 tsp asafoetida
9. 2 finger length cinnamon
10. 2 tsp cloves or lavang
11. 4 cardamom
12. 4 tsp poppy seeds or khus khus
13. 1 tsp cooking oil

Instructions for making bisi bele bath powder:

1. Take a frying pan and heat it. Add in 1/2 tsp cooking oil and fry the red chilis. When they are puffed up take them out and set it aside.
2. Add in gram dal or chana dal. Fry until slightly brown under medium flame.
3. Now to the same pan add in urad dal. Fry until golden brown under medium flame. Once they are done take them out and set it aside.
4. Add in coriander seeds. Fry until you get nice aroma. Take them out and keep it aside.
5. Now to the same pan add in 1/2 tsp of oil, mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds. Fry until mustard seed splutters. Take them out and set it aside.
6. Add in cumin seeds and fry until they are swollen and you get a nice aroma.
7. Add in cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. Fry for few seconds. Take them out and keep it aside.
8. Fry poppy seeds and asafoetida for few seconds. Take them out and keep it aside.
9. Wait until all the roasted ingredients are cool.
10. Once they are cool, transfer them into a mixie jar. Grind it into a fine powder. Store it in a air tight container.

Dear reader, We have a Kannada version of this recipe. Click here to read this recipe in Kannada.