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    Home » Recipes » Breakfast & Dinner Ideas

    Khara bath recipe, Breakfast recipes

    July 14, 2017 by Raks Anand 8 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Khara bath is made with rava/ semolina along with vegetables and masala powders with flavor of ghee. It has a soft texture and the flavor is different from upma and rava kichadi.

    Khara bath recipe

    When I posted chow chow bath thinking it is just kesari and rava kichadi served over a single plate, a reader pointed out its supposed to be khara bath and its not same as kichadi. The masala powders make the difference.

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    It has been raining here for quite a few days and thought of making something hot as well as my favorite for breakfast. Instead of making the regular south Indian rava upma, I thought of jazzing up and made this khara bath, adapting from Prathiba.

    khara bath

    I made very few changes to adapt my taste buds. Khara bhath turned out really good and became a satisfying south Indian breakfast. Adding capsicum gives a unique flavor to the dish.

    With so many ingredients and ghee, it could never go wrong. I wish I had coconut to make coconut chutney, but I always love to have it as such to enjoy the flavors.

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    Khara bath recipe
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    Khara bath recipe | Karnataka style Rava bath

    Khara bath is made with rava/ semolina along with vegetables and masala powders with flavor of ghee. It has a soft texture and the flavor is different from upma and rava kichadi.
    Course Breakfast
    Cuisine Indian, South Indian
    Prep Time 10 minutes
    Cook Time 20 minutes
    Servings 4
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup Rava Semolina
    • 3 cups Water
    • 1 Onion
    • 1 Tomato
    • ½ Carrot
    • 3 Beans
    • ½ Capsicum
    • 2 teaspoon Ginger finely chopped
    • ½ teaspoon Red chilli powder See notes for substitution
    • ½ teaspoon Coriander powder
    • ¼ teaspoon Garam masala powder
    • ⅛ teaspoon Turmeric
    • 3 tablespoon Coriander leaves finely chopped
    • 1 teaspoon Lemon juice
    • 1 tablespoon Grated coconut
    • 1 teaspoon Ghee
    • Salt

    To temper

    • 1 tablespoon Oil
    • 2 tablespoon Ghee
    • ½ teaspoon Mustard
    • 2 teaspoon Urad dal
    • 1 tablespoon Chana dal
    • 6 Cashew nuts
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    Instructions

    • First boil water separately in a bowl.
    • Heat a kadai and add the items under ‘To temper” in order. That is once oil + ghee is hot, splutter mustard and add other items one by one.
    • Add very finely chopped ginger, slit green chilli.
    • Roast until the dal, cashew turn golden. Add sliced onion.
    • Once onion turns transparent, add finely chopped vegetables, chopped tomato. Fry for a minute in medium flame.
    • Add turmeric, spice powders and salt. Give it a stir.
    • Then, add rava and roast well for a minute.
    • After that, add boiling water carefully to it in low flame. After that, boil in high flame until its like porridge.
    • Then, cook covered for 8- 10  minutes. Stirring in between once.
    • Once the khara bath gets cooked, lastly add the remaining 1 teaspoon ghee, lemon juice and garnish with coriander leaves, grated coconut.

    Notes

    • For non sticky soft texture, add ghee and oil as mentioned.
    • You can add either 1 teaspoon of Bisibelebath powder or vangi bhat powder in place of the spice powders.
    • Otherwise, 1 teaspoon of either rasam powder or sambar powder plus garam masala.
    • While adding garam masala make sure to add little as mentioned, otherwise it will over power the flavors.
    • You can temper with cumin seeds ½ tsp.
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    Stepwise photos

    1. Boil water firstly in a bowl in a stove. in another stove, heat a kadai and add the items under ‘To temper” in order. That is once oil + ghee is hot, splutter mustard and add other items one by one.

    After that, add very finely chopped ginger, slit green chilli. Roast until the dal, cashew turn golden. Add sliced onion.

    temper, saute

    2. Once onion turns transparent, add finely chopped vegetables, chopped tomato. Fry for a minute in medium flame.

    sauté veggies

    3. Add turmeric, spice powders and salt, give it a stir.

    add spice powders

    4. After that, add rava and roast well for a minute. This is very important to roast well for non-sticky texture.

    add rava

    5. Then, add boiling water carefully to it in low flame and cook until its like porridge.

    add water

    6. Cook furthermore covered for 8- 10  minutes, stirring in between once.

    cook

    7. Once the khara bath gets cooked, lastly add remaining 1 teaspoon ghee, lemon juice and garnish with coriander leaves, grated coconut.

    ready

    Serve hot with coconut chutney, you can top with few drops of ghee while serving and you can finish off with filter coffee.

    khara bath

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Meenal Krishnan

      July 14, 2017 at 7:15 pm

      5 stars
      Today night i prepared for dinner..Really it come out well..Thanks a lot Raji for sharing this wonderful recipe 🙂

      Reply
    2. Raks anand

      July 15, 2017 at 1:43 pm

      Thank you for your prompt feedback 🙂

      Reply
    3. chan

      July 18, 2017 at 9:40 am

      Hi madam,I am a big fan of your blog.I saw your step by step cooking in Aval vikatan magazine.it was amazing especially blooming onion.I am so happy and I am really proud of your passion about cooking.God bless you.sugapriya

      Reply
    4. Raks anand

      July 18, 2017 at 10:02 am

      Thank you Sugapriya 🙂

      Reply
    5. Revathi Sundar

      September 26, 2019 at 1:12 pm

      You can also add bisibelebath powder.. It will taste really good

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        September 28, 2019 at 11:28 am

        Oh wow, great idea, I will try 🙂 Thanks for your suggestion

        Reply
    6. Manju

      December 18, 2019 at 2:46 pm

      is it normal sooji rava or benzi rava? pls clarify

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        December 19, 2019 at 11:06 pm

        Normal rava dear

        Reply

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