Aug 10, 2009

Bisibelebath 2 - Leftover special

Well this is something my MIL made last week using the left over Pongal she made for breakfast. She finished all the cooking work in the morning along with the breakfast work and we went out for shopping. She forgot to keep rice and when we returned after all those shopping trips, we both were really tired and we all were hungry and the kids became cranky. Since she had made eggplant sambar and godhsu as side dish for pongal, she said she will make quick bisibelebath with leftover pongal. I was not sure how it will come out but she was very confident and she started making arrangements for making the dish. I am just gonna give the quantity of pongal, godhsu and sambar she used to make this. Hope this will help...

Ingredients:-
  1. Pongal - 3 cups (leftover finished pongal)
  2. Godhsu - 1/4 cup (leftover)
  3. Sambar - 1/2 cup (finished samabr)
  4. Garam masala - 3/4 teaspoon
  5. Salt to taste (if necessary)
For Seasoning:-
  1. Oil - 1 tbsp
  2. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
  3. Red chillies - 2
  4. Cashewnuts - few
  5. curry leaves - to garnish.
Heat a pan, put the godhsu (tomato & onion godhsu), add required amount of water and let it boil for another couple of minutes. Now add sambar, garam masala powder and salt (if necessary) and let everything mix and boil for few minutes. Now add the leftover pongal to the mixture and mix everything well and let it cook for another 5 to 7 minutes. Add water according to the required consistency. Turn off the stove and keep it aside. Now seasoning for this rice is purely optional because, we would have seasoned pongal, godhsu and also sambar. In order to add some more taste, we can season this with cashews. Fry cashew nuts to golden brown and pour it on top of the rice and garnish it with curry leaves. Frankly speaking friends, the taste of this bisibelebath was much better than the original one we do. It was really good along with the cumin and pepper taste.

8 comments:

Rush said...

i remember bisibele bhath from my school days, tiffin box of my myfriend and i used to hog on it!!
thnks for sharing the recipe :)

Shama Nagarajan said...

That's a nice dear...sometimes i used to do like this.....yummy

Jaishree Iyer said...

It is nice &looks yummy vidhya:)

Indian Khana said...

U knw my sis told me same ...she use leftover Pongal to make BBB too...am all set to try...looks yum and gud to see u back

Sushma Mallya said...

Hi vidhya...Never knew this way of making besi bele bhaat...quiet a time saving one....and thanks for visiting my blog and hope to c u more often....

Usha said...

This is such a neat idea using leftover pongal in bisibelebath, loved the idea...will try the next time I find myself with too much pongal in my hands :-)

Purva Desai said...

this is really a different way of making BB.... will try this method next time I make BB

Pavithra Elangovan said...

Wow thats looking yummy.. Thats my fav too...