Paruppu usili is a traditional south indian dish which
is made from dal and vegetables. Usili can be made from a variety of vegetables
You can use capsicum, cabbage, avarakai, banana flower, beetroot, French
beans, cluster beans, snake guard. Most common one is beans. I have used carrot
in this dish.
Tastes best with rice and kolambu.
Serves: 3
Ingredients:
1. Carrot - 4
2. Channa dal (Kadala
paruppu/Bengal gram) - 1/2 cup
3. Toor dal (Tovaram
paruppu/Red gram) - 1/2 cup
4. Dry chilli - 3
5. Salt as needed
6. Aesophatida – a pinch
7. Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp
8. Curry leaves – 5nos
Method:
1. Soak Channa dal and toor
dal in water for 15-20 min.
2. Chop the carrot into
very small pieces and cook it with little salt. Keep it aside.
3. Blend the dry chilli
in a blender slightly. You can adjust the no of chilli as per your need.
4. Now add the soaked
dal, salt, a pinch of aseophatida and little water to the blender and
blend it to make a fine paste.
5. Heat oil in a pan.
6. Add the grinded dal and
saute it nicely. Add oil as needed.
7. Saute till the dal is
cooked and becomes soft.
8. Cool the fried dal.
Blend it slightly in a blender so that any large lumps would be broken down and
the dal will look like coarse powder. You can store this in a airtight
container in freezer for even 10 days.
9. Heat oil in a pan.
10. Add mustard seeds,
curry leaves and fry till they splatter.
11. Add the fried dal and
cooked carrot.
12. Fry nicely. Add salt
and oil as needed.
Serve hot with rice
and kolambu