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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Beans Paruppu Usili.



Ingredients
Beans (finely chopped)-250gms
Onion small( sliced)-1
Red chilly powder/Paprika powder-1tsp
Turmeric powder-1/4tsp
Hing/Asafetida-pinch
Salt to taste
Mustard seeds-1tsp
Chana dal/Split Chick peas-handful
Toor dal/ Split Pigeon peas-handful
Dried red chilly-4
Garlic cloves-2
Oil-2tbsp

Method
Wash and soak the chana dal and toor dal. Grind both dals in mixer to a coarse paste along with dried red chilly and garlic cloves. To the coarsely ground dals add 1tbsp oil and required salt( since salt is also added to the beans, i prefer adding less salt to the dals). Add the ground dal paste to a steam pan and steam for at least 10 mins. Once the dal is cooked allow to cool and crumble it with fingers. Next heat oil in a pan, when hot add the mustard seeds. When mustard seeds crackles add the chopped onion and saute until onion turns pink. Now add the chopped beans and stir fry for few mins. Season the beans with red chilly powder, turmeric powder, asafetida and salt. Sprinkle little water on the beans, cover and cook until 3/4th done. Now remove the lid and add the crumbled dals. Stir fry the bean and dal mixture until dry. Serve hot with steamed Rice or Roti.

20 comments:

Abhilash said...

No false comment passing this time.

This looks really delicious and I memorised the recipe and I will prepare it. I shifted to a new house and as you know the shifting process is a mess which prohibited me from blogging, surfing or cooking. I have to quickly start with the normal life again.

The recipe where the dals are grinded and then cooked is new to me. Hey one question... Do we need to add water after the dals are added to sauted onion and chopped beans?

Sushma Mallya said...

looks very healthy and my fav stir fry

chef and her kitchen said...

Lovely curry..looks very yummy dear...even we make similar to this

Priya Suresh said...

My favourite dish, just love with hot steaming rasam..makes me hungry.

Shama Nagarajan said...

yummy traditional recipe

Saraswathy Balakrishnan said...

A simple homely dish to vision my dear..irresistibly yummy yum yum:)

Vrinda said...

Gr8 recipe and nice combo,bookmarked it...

petite nyonya said...

Happy New Year, Mye!! As usual, your delicious Indian recipes make me crave for it. Once my kitchen is stocked up, I look forward to try your recipes which I have bookmarked. Need to make a trip to an Indian spice store soon!

Padma said...

Love this dish. Looks yumm, guess what me too made this for lunch.

Mythreyi Dilip said...

Thank you Abhi, Sushma, Prathiba, Priya, Shama, Bala, Vrinda, Nyona and Padma for your encouraging comments:)

Hi abhi, i know how messy it gets while shifting to a new home, hope u like the place and get more friends in neighborhood....

As i said sprinkle enough water on the sauted beans and onions, cover the pan and cook the beans for about 5 mins. Once the beans are cooked and dry, finally add the steamed dals to the cooked beans and give a final stir.

Once the steamed dal is added to the beans, do not add water. As the mixture of dals and beans will become soggy.

Hope i'm making clear.....

Anonymous said...

we make this with morkuzhambu and this combo rocks.i love this to bits..the only difference is we dont add garlic/ onion.this is a nice variation Mye

sree said...

very interesting recipe....will surely try it.

Mythreyi Dilip said...

Thank u Sree and Shubha for ur lovely comments:)

Pavithra Elangovan said...

One of my fav ...looks so good and feel like eating now.

Uma said...

yummy dish. Tooo tempting.

Belated wishes for a happy new year :)

Home Cooked Oriya Food said...

yummy one...

gtyuk said...

beans usili looks fantastic!!! must be great with some ghee smeared hot rice!!

I can't stop looking at the prawn briyani and the mutta kaaram!! my mouth is watering when I see the pictures!!! nice recipes!!!

Perspectivemedley said...

nice usli :) I would like to share an award with you, please collect it :)

my kitchen said...

Perfect with sambhar & rasam rice

Nithu Bala said...

Wow..love this usli..I used to make usli often but you have added few additional ingredients which I'v not added so far..will love to try this version too..

Thanks for joining my blog and for your nice comment..love to hear more comments on other recipes too.