Bisibelabath Recipe / Special Sambar Sadam– Iyengar Style (Comfort Food)

 

I am delivering you the recipe which I promised you yesterday. This  is one of the best one I have ever had. I will recommend you to try this dish as soon as possible.

You know that bisibelabath is one of the famous and tasty dish. The cool thing about this is, it is iyengar recipe and I got this from one of my friend in office. This is her mum’s recipe..One day we had a get together in office, she bought this along with papad and it was totally delicious. At that second itself I wanted to post this in my blog. So last week I called her mum and asked for the recipe and made it atonce…

The vegetables used in this recipe is entirely upto you..You could add or remove any vegetables as per your wish. Basically you are making a special sambar and adding rice to that. Please taste the sambar and adjust the tamarind, salt and sugar for your taste. This is best had piping hot right from the stove. You can put this in a bowl and eat it with a spoon, because the consistency of this should be semi solid which makes it a comfort dish.

I had it with brinjal fry and papad..So hope you love it and let me know the results..

Ingrediants:

Rice – 1 cup

Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu / Split Pigeon Peas  –  ½ cup

Potato-1 large chopped

Onion-1 chopped(optional, though the original recipe didn’t call for this)

Tomato-2 chopped

Brinjals – 2 chopped

Carrot – 2 chopped

Long Green Brinjal – 1 chopped

Green Chilli-3 long ones (milder than small ones)

Cucumber – 1 small chopped

Tamarind Paste – 2 tblspn

Salt to taste

Sugar -1 tsp

Coriander Leaves / Cilantro – 1 small bunch

Spices 1:
Cinnamon – 1 small Stick
Cardamom-5
Cloves-5

Spices 2:
Coriander Seeds-2 tblspn
Split Channa Dal-1 tblspn
Dry Red Chilli-3
Pepper-1 tsp

For Seasoning:

Cashew – 10 pieces

Curry leaves – 2 spring

Ghee – 2 tblspn

Oil-2 tblspn

Method:

Start by making bisibelabath powder. Take spices 1 in a dry roasting pan and roast for 3-4 mins until well roasted. Remove and set aside to cool. Heat 1 tsp of oil in a kadai and Take spices 2 in that. Roast it till it gets golden brown. Remove it and set aside to cool down.Now take both of this in a blender or coffee grinder and powder it finely. Bisibelabath powder is done.

Now wash rice till all starch goes away. Put it pressure cooker and add 4 cups of water and cook it for 3 whistles for about 15-20 mins until cooked. Let the pressure go all by itself. Remove and set aside.

Take all vegetables and washed toor dal  in a pressure cooker and cover it completely with water . Cook it for 3 whistles for about 15-20 mins until cooked. Let the pressure go all by itself. Remove it and transfer it into a large pan.

Bring that to a boil and add in bisibelabath powder, tamarind, sugar, salt and mix well. Let it simmer for 10 mins. If the mixture is too thick add some more water. The consistency should be like a thin sambar.Taste this to check for seasonings and adjust it accordingly.

Now add in rice and mix well. Let it simmer for 5-10 mins. Add lots of cilantro on top and mix well.

No make seasoning by heating ghee and oil in a small pan. Add cashewnuts and curry leaves and mix well. Pour this over the rice and mix well. The consistency should be like a thick dosa batter.

Serve this hot with brinjal fry and papad.

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Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants..Add Sugar & Cashews in this list

Spice 1

Spcie 2

Assorted Veggies

Chop everything

Roast Spices 1 in dry pan

till light golden

remove it in a blender

add 1 tsp of oil for roasting spices 2

add it in

and roast till light golden

remove to the same blender

Powder it

Take washed rice in pressure cooker

Pour water

and cook

till done

Take Veggies and Washed Dal in pressure cooker

add water

cover and cook

till done

pour it in a big kadai

add the ground masala

mix well

Add Tamarind

salt and some sugar

and bring it to a boil

add rice

and mix well

throw in lots of cilantro

heat ghee and oil

add cashews

and curry leaves

pour that in

delicious..

mix well

and serve

taste great with papad and quick brinjal fry

Enjoy friends