Beans Paruppu Usili | How to Prepare Usili | Brahmin Paruppu Usili

Beans Paruppu Usili is a dry veggie and dal mixed side dish served with any rice variety. It is very popular Tamil brahmin dish which is adopted and prepared with many vegetables like Cluster Beans, French Beans, Broad Beans, Cabbage, Plantain flower, Ivy gourd etc. Mixing vegetables and dal together gives a very unique taste to the dish and a healthy option for kids. Asafoetida in this dish adds great flavor and helps to prevent bloating caused by dal. This will be a good combination with Kuzhambu Rice(vatha kuzhambu, kara kuzhambu, moor kuzhambu)

Beans Paruppu Usili | How to Prepare Usili | Brahmin Paruppu Usili Recipe Cuisine: Tamil Nadu  |  Recipe Category: Poriyal Prep Time:  10 minutes   |  Cook time: 30 minutes    |  Serves: 4-5 BEANS – ¼ KG TO GRIND TOOR DAL – ½ CUP CUMIN SEEDS – 1 TSPN RED CHILLI – 5 NOS ASAFOEDITA – ¼ TSPN TURMERIC POWDER – ¼ TSPN (OPTIONAL) SALT – TO TASTE TEMPERING OIL – ¼ CUP MUSTARD – ¼ TSPN CUMIN SEEDS – ¼ TSPN URID DAL – ¼ TSPN CURRY LEAVES – FEW

METHOD OF PREPARATION

1. Chop beans and soak dal along with red chilli for 1 hour. Simultaneously add salt and steam the beans in cooker or steamer . Once beans are cooked drain the water from it using a strainer 

2. Add cumin seeds, asafoedita, salt to the dal mixture and  grind it as coarse paste without adding water.

3. Take a pan and heat oil, temper the given ingredients then add the dal mixture and saute it

4. Stir it continuously as the dal mixture shouldn't brown or become crispy it has to be soft but cooked well. When dal is cooked, then add Beans and mix it 

5. Serve it hot with Rice as a side dish for Rasam, Vathakuzhambu.