BEANS PARIPPU USLI

Beans pariuppu usli is a dry subzi made with beans, chana dal and tur dal.  It is very tasty and can be served with sambhar rice, rasam rice, I prefer to have it with.

Normally, the dals are soaked and ground to a paste with red and green chilli, steamed and crumbled and added to the cooked beans with tadka.  But I made it in a different way.  

The same can be prepared with Vazhapoo, cluster beans, carrot, cabbage, broad beans  etc.  Maharashtrians make watli dal with raw mango.  

Ingredients:

½ cup	Beans finely chopped
¼ cup	Chana dal
2 tbsp	Tuvar dal
2	Red chilli
1	Green chilli
	Curry leaves
	Asafoetida
1 tsp	Mustard seeds
1 tsp	Urid dal
1	Red chilli broken
	Salt
2 tbsp	oil

Method:

1.        Soak the chana dal and tuvar dal for 1 hour. Wash and cook the same with water.  When you press with your hand the same should break. At that time, remove from gas and drain the water and allow to cool

2.      Cook the beans also with little salt, drain  excess water , if any.

3.      Put the red chilli, green chilli in mixer and pulse it. Add the chana / tuvar dal and pulse it.  Grind to a coarse paste.

4.      Heat oil in kadai.  Add the mustard seeds, urid dal, hing powder. Add the curry leaves.  When it is done, add the dal in it and sauté for a minute or two.  Add the beans, salt and mix well.

5.      Your usli is ready.

How to serve:

Serve with sambar rice, rasam rice, plain rice with moru kootan and vathal kuzhambu etc. 

Note:  I just love to eat as it is with chopped onion and a dash of lime on top of it.   I did not use tuvar dal.

Normally, the dals and chilli are grind and steamed and crumbled.  This preparation is my variation.


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