Paruppu Usili - An Authentic Sound Indian Curry
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Paruppu Usili Recipe
Paruppu Usili is a traditional South Indian curry, particularly famous in Tamilnadu. Paruppu Usili is a healthy dish prepared using lentils and vegetables. Beans, cluster beans, plantain flower, cabbage and potato are the vegetables generally used for this recipe. Paruppu Usili goes well with rice as a side dish. Read on to know how to make paruppu usili.
Contents at a Glance
“Paruppu Usili...what's that??
Paruppu in Tamil means Lentils, and Usili means fry / crumbles.”
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Beans Paruppu Usili Recipe
A Nutritious Lentil Curry
Ingredients:Toor Dal (split pigeon peas) - 1 cup
Channa Dal (Bengal gram) - 1 cup
Red Chili - 5 to 6
Turmeric Powder - 1 tbsp
Green Beans - 500g
Oil - 5 tbsp
Salt to taste
For Seasoning:
Mustard Seeds - 1 tbsp
Urad Dal(split black gram) - 1 tbsp
Curry leaves - 5 to 6
Hing - 1/4 tbsp
Steps:
- Soak the dals for 3-4 hours, or preferably overnight.
- Grind the dals along with red chili, turmeric powder to form a coarse mixture.
- Chop the vegetable, and boil it for 10 minutes. Then drain well and keep aside.
- Heat oil in a frying pan, and add mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves.
- Add the dal mixture, and cook it covered for 5 minutes.
- Open the lid, and stir the mixture.
- Add boiled beans and salt as per your taste.
- Stir it for few more minutes, and the delicious paruppu usili is ready.
Quick Tip
If you want to use less oil and make the dish even more nutritious, you can cook the ground dal mixture in pressure cooker for 5 minutes. Then you can just fry the cooked dal and boiled vegetables for few minutes in the frying pan.
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Dec 18, 2010 @ 4:14 am | delete
- Looks delicious - but living in Norway I am not able to get the different kind of dal. Could I use red lentils or mung beans, for example?
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food fan
Jun 30, 2010 @ 6:59 pm | delete
- Yum Yum, mouth watering dish. In whichever part of the world you are. ( I am a Tam Bram of course.)
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lizziebeth
Feb 17, 2010 @ 6:55 pm | delete
- I'll bet this is scrumptious. I love "regular" dal, and Indian food too, so I know I will also like this new recipe. Thanks so much for posting it.
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hayleylou
Feb 8, 2010 @ 4:15 pm | delete
- I love indian food and I also love cooking, 5 stars and a fav so that I can return easily
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GiveInKind
Dec 22, 2010 @ 9:23 am | delete
- if you love Indian food check out my recipes, its with a North American twist.
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