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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Sambar Sadam / Bisibelabath


Sambar Sadam:
               This is famous South Indian variety rice,with all vegetables in it. So it’s a best  for lunch box  for all. This rice is also called as Bisibelabath ,with few cashews and kara boondi on top.



Ingredients:

  • 2 cups Raw Rice
  • 1 Cup Thoor Dal
  • Vegetables (Turnip,carrot,beans,potato) cubed
  • 1 Onion chopped
  • 1 Tomato Chopped
  • 2 Green chillies chopped
  • Few Cilantro Chopped
  • 2 Garlic (Optional) Crushed
  • 1 tsp Mustard seeds
  • 1 tsp Methi powder (Secret of taste)
  • 1 /2 tsp of Asafoetida (Secret of taste)
  • Salt
  • 1 tsp Sambar powder
  • 1 tsp Coriander powder
  • 1 tsp Kashmiri chilli powder / Cayenne pepper powder
  • 1 tsp of Lemon juice
  • 2 tsp Oil
  • 1 tsp Ghee
  • Water: (Will vary acc. to the type of dal and rice)

                         2 cups Raw Rice (Pacharisi) =  4 cups water
                         1 Cup Dal = ½ cup Water (I used Mysore dal/ Red Dal)
                         2 cups of Veggies= 1 cup of water

Preparation:

 Soak rice and dal for ½ hr.
Cut all the vegetables and chop onion and tomato & keep it ready.
In a pressure cooker, add 2 tsp of oil and splutter mustard seeds and methi powder(Vendhayam dry fried & powdered) and asafetida.
Fry the onions and then add all veggies,and garlic and cook for a while.
Now add the chopped tomatoes and salt and cook covered for 5 mins in medium flame.
By this time, the tomatoes will get mashed and veggies will be half cooked.
Now add all powders – samabar,coriander and red chilli  and fry for a sec and add the dal and rice to this.

Fry the rice and dal in that mix for 3 mins and then add water and adjust the salt.

Now add atsp of ghee over and add chopped coriander leaves on top and pressure cook upto 3-4 whistles.


Now the Sambar rice/ Bisibelabath is ready.
Serve it with fried potatoes/potato chips and pickle of ur choice.
Note:
  
   I like the texture of sambar sadam to be like Pongal. Most of them will like to have little bit watery,if so increase the water quantity by 1 cup.
Can also add cashews before pressure cook.


1 comment:

  1. Tried Sambar rice and turn out good.
    Can u post how to do potato chips(Hot chips style,chennai)?

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