How to make Paruppu Usili
Ingredients
Toor dal : 1/2 cup
Toor dal : 1/2 cup
Channa dal : 1/2 cup
Red Chilli : 2
Salt to taste
Turmeric
Mustard seeds
Urad dal : 1/4 spoon
Asafoetida : a pinch
Oil
Usili can be done with one of the following vegetables : Potalankai (Snake gourd), Beans, Banana flower (vazhai po), Broad beans (avaraikai), kothavarankai (cluster beans).
Preparation
Cut the vegetables and pressure cook them after adding salt and turmeric.
Soak Toor dal, Channa dal for half an hour. Then, grind them coarsly with minimum water after adding salt, red chilli , asafoetida.
Heat 6 spoons of oil in Kadai. When it fumes, add mustard and then udad dal, when they are roasted untill golden brown add the dal mix, stir thoroughly, close the kadai with a plate and allow it to cook (10 to 15 minutes). Keep stirring every 3 minutes.
After the dal gets cooked, add the cooked vegetables, mix well, fry for 5 minutes and remove.
Its ready.
Combination
Mostly taken with Mor Kuzambu. Also good with araicha sathumudhu (Tomato Rasam)
You missed kothavarangaai...which rocks as paruppu usili.
ReplyDeletei learned sthg new thro this blog. tan q tan q. the new thing that i learned is the meaning of the word "karaamudhu". i used to think it is currymeedhu. but since in our sampradhaayam everything we associate with amudhu, it is karaamudhu. payasam is thirukannamudhu, rasam is saathamudhu, and when we refer to Perumal's eating we use "amudhu seydhal". May be that could have transformed into "amisai panradhu". please let us know if this right.
ReplyDeleterecipe - looks good.
Added it Mayu..thanks
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