dal bhat

noun

A dish of steamed rice and dal stew.

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Meanings

noundal bhat (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA dish of steamed rice and dal stew.

    All the towns have small teahouses where you can get tea, sometimes chapatis (a flat flour and water bread similar to tortillas), sometimes eggs, and dahl baat (rice, beans and curried vegetables, the standard Nepalese meal).

    1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 8
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