Beans paruppu usili recipe
Steamed dal mixture mixed with beans, a traditional South Indian curry
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 3 cups beans finely chopped
- ½ cup chana dal
- 1/3 cup toor dal
- 4 red chilis
- 2 pinches asafoetida
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp urad dal
- Salt as needed
- Curry leaves few
Instructions
- Wash and soak the chana dal and toor dal along with red chili in water for 2 hours.
- Drain the water well and put this into a mixie jar and add the asafoetida, little salt and ¼ tsp turmeric powder.
- Grind into a slightly coarse paste, do not add water while grinding. Add 1 tbsp if needed.
- Grease a idli pan and place the ground mixture on this. Do not pat them well, just roughly make round shapes and place it.
- Steam this for 15 minutes.
- Alternatively you can do this same in a microwave. It will take around 5-6 minutes. Place the ground mixture in a greased microwavable bowl and cook.
- Take out every 1 minute and stir it and cook.
- Another method my mother in law follow is grease a bowl and place the ground mixture in it, cover it with a lid and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles.
- This works well if you are making in bulk quantity and also if you don’t want to use the steamer.
- When it is steaming, let us cook the beans.
- In a pan add 1 tsp of oil and add ½ tsp of mustard seeds and a pinch of asafoetida.
- Once the mustard seeds splutter add the chopped beans to this.
- Add ½ tsp turmeric powder and little salt
- Sprinkle little water and cook the beans. Let it this be slightly crunchy.
- Once the dal mixture is done, switch off the flame and allow this to cool.
- Cut this into big pieces and cool, it will ease the process of cooling.
- My mom used to keep this in the refrigerator or freezer for 10 minutes before pulsing it.
- Put this steamed paruppu in the mixie jar,do not over crowd it.
- Pulse this in batches.
- In a pan add 2 tbsp of oil and mustard seeds and urad dal.
- Once the dal turns golden brown, add the steamed and pulsed da mixture to this.
- Cook for 5 minutes in a low -medium flame.
- Now add the cooked beans to this.
- Mix well and cook for 5 minutes.
- Switch off the flame.
- Enjoy with your meal.
- You can mix with hot rice and smear with ghee and enjoy too.
Notes
Notes:
1. You can lessen the chana dal and add more toor dal too or you can add equal quantity too.
2. Instead of beans you can use broad beans, cabbage, methi leaves, banana flower, banana stem, or cluster beans too.
3. Beans paruppu usili is a perfect combo with Mor kuzhambu or Vatha kuzhambu.
