Paruppu usili | Beans paruppu usili recipe
Beans paruppu usili is a delicious South Indian dal based vegetable recipe, made with gram dal, and served as a side dish with tamarind based gravy items.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 2 cups Beans (chopped)
- 1 cup gram dal (soaked)
- 2 tbsp oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 1 onion
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 6-8 red chillies
- ¼ tsp asafoetida
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- Water to cook
- 1½ tsp salt (as per taste)
Instructions
Preparation:
- Clean and chop Beans.
- Soak gram dal for 30mins.
- Cut onions and keep aside.
- Pressure cook the vegetable with a half cup of water. Use a small, right-sized cooker. One whistle is enough to cook Beans. Alternately, you can cook beans for less than five minutes in a pan with very less water.
- Next, take a blender/mixer and add soaked dal without water, red chillies and salt.
- Coarse grind the ingredients. Just give a pulse grind as it's important to not make it a paste.
- Steam the ground gram dal mixture for around 6 minutes in a steamer or idli cooker.
Recipe for making paruppu usili:
- Now heat oil in a pan, season with mustard and cumin seeds.
- Add onions, curry leaves and saute well until they become soft.
- Also, add a few red chillies to suit your needs.
- Now put the steamed dal mixture and saute well in oil for five minutes.
- Fry the dal in the oil until you get a nice aroma and add cooked beans.
- Add turmeric powder and salt.
- Mix everything together for two minutes.
- Switch off the beans paruppu usili and serve as a side dish with any tamarind based gravy.
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Notes
Tips: 1) If you prefer the authentic onion free paruppu usili, just skip onions and proceed with the rest of the recipe. 2) Furthermore, you can follow the same recipe to make paruppu usili with other veggies like avarakkai, kothavarangai and cabbage etc. 3) Finally, adjust the number of red chillies as per your spice needs.
Nutrition
Calories: 360kcal
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