Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, kothavarangai paruppu usili| cluster-beans steamed mixed lentil. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Paruppu Usili is a traditional South Indian (Tamil Brahmin) dish which is prepared with lentils. It is a very healthy dish as it has lentils and is steam cooked. Today we will learn how to make Cluster beans (kothavarangai) paruppu usili following this easy recipe.
Kothavarangai Paruppu Usili
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kothavarangai paruppu usili| cluster-beans steamed mixed lentil using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kothavarangai Paruppu Usili| Cluster-Beans Steamed mixed Lentil:
- Prepare Veggie
- Prepare 250 grams cluster beans/ gavar phalli
- Get Pinch turmeric
- Take 2-3 teaspoon water
- Make ready For usili
- Get 1/2 cup Toor dal/ split peeled yellow lentils
- Prepare 1/2 cup Chana dal/ split peeled chick pea lentils
- Make ready 1/4 cup Moong dal/ split peeled green lentils
- Prepare 3-4 Dry red chillies
- Get 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric powder
- Make ready To taste Salt
- Prepare Pinch aesofotida
- Get Tampering
- Make ready 10/12 Curry leaves
- Make ready 2-3 tablespoons Oil
- Make ready 1 tsp Mustard seeds
This dish is so simple to make and healthy too as the lentils are only steam. Vegetables that can be used- Clustered Beans(Kothavaranga), French Beans, Capsicum, Plantain Flower(Vazhaipoo) Combination- With Steamed. Paruppu Usili is a protein rich Tamil Brahmin's Signature side dish and is made usually with lentils and veggies like cluster beans, beans & plantain flower. Apart from being served as side dish it tastes yummy and distinctive when you have this by mixing in hot steaming rice with few drops of ghee. (Kothavarangai Paruppu Usili).
Instructions to make Kothavarangai Paruppu Usili| Cluster-Beans Steamed mixed Lentil:
- Wash and soak all three dals in a bowl for 2 hours, or in hot water for 1&1/2 hours.
- Clean and wash beans. Finely chop them. Add to a bowl with water and pinch of turmeric and keep in a pressure cooker, with little water in the base. Steam cook till 2 whistles
- After soaking the dals, remove all the water and grind them dry, coarsely with hing, turmeric, chillies and salt.
- Remove in a bowl that fits in a pressure cooker or in a cooker container. Steam cook until 1 whistle.
- Now lets prepare the Usili. Add oil a non stick pan and add mustard seeds, let splutter, add curry leaves and fry.
- Now add the steamed dal by breaking it with the spatula. Mix well and let cook in the oil for 3-5 minutes.
- Add the vegetable and mix well. Cover and let the flavours mix for sometime. This will take another 3-5 minutes.
- Once the dal looks tender and doesn't stick with each other, it means the dish is ready.
- Serve hot with steamed rice and vatha kuzhambu.
This is a classic South Indian dish prepared usually with cluster beans (kothvarangai) Take a plate and grease it lightly and spread the coarse paste on the plate as shown to be steamed in Idli cooker or steamed in microwave.after. Cluster Beans Paruppu usili is my hubby's fav. Then Add the turmeric powder and little salt. Now add the chopped beans mix well. Kothavarangai Paruppu Usili, one of the traditional usili variety.
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