Thursday, November 6, 2014

Beans Paruppu Usili | Beans Patoli


Beans Paruppu Usili
Paruppu Usili is a delicious dish consists of few different dals & veggies, which are cooked to perfection while making it irresistibly good. The other version of paruppu usili is Andhra's Patoli dish. It is very similar dish as of usili with a little of variations to it & it is as delicious as usili. When we were enjoying this dish for lunch my husband was saying it is very similar to Nellore's "Sandi Pindi" dish. I was amazed how one dish was named differently in different places & to my surprise all are few miles apart. 
Enjoy this yummy dish!!!
Beans Paruppu Usili
Prep Time-2hrs10mins {2hrs of soaking + 10mins for chopping & arranging}
Cook Time-45mins
Serves-2People 
Pairs with rice along with rasam, pulusu & sambar.
Ingredients 
1Cup chopped french beans
1Small onion chopped
2Red chili cut equally
Few curry leaves
1Tsp mustard seeds
1Tbs oil
Salt to taste {adjust as needed}
To grind 
1/4Cup chana dal
2Tbs toor dal
2Tbs moong dal
1Tsp cumin
5Red chili's
1/2Tsp hing
1/4Tsp turmeric
Salt to taste
Directions
- Soak chana dal, moond dal & toor dal for 1hr to 2hr.
- Strain the water & add them to a blender along with cumin, red chili's, hing, turmeric & salt.
- Coarse grind them. Now taste the mixture & adjust salt, spiciness in the mixture.


- Take a idli pan & apply oil to the rounds. 
- Divide the mixture equally in to four holes & steam cook them for 10mins. 
- Mean while heat pan with oil. To that add mustard seeds, red chili's & curry leaves. 
- Once the mustard starts jumping add in onions & fry them for 1min. Then add in cut beans along with pinch of salt. Stir in & close it with a lid.


- Allow the veggies cook, mean while the mixture is cooked well. 
- Allow it to cool before crumbling it. Crumble the steamed mixture with your hands as shown above. 
- Add in the crumbled mixture to the cooked veggies. On low heat mix them well & blend them well by stirring them. Adjust salt if needed.
- Cook for 5mins & then switch off heat. 
- Usili/Patoli is ready to serve. Serve warm with rice & dollop of ghee.
Note
- I never boil veggies in lots of water as the nutrients are drained wastly after the veggies are cooked. 
- You add salt kind of twice in this dish. As the mixture needed the perfect salting & the veggies will be left alone. Add enough salt/little salt to veggies to balance it perfectly in the dish.
- Sprinkle a little lemon juice after the curry is cooled. It adds a nice twist to the dish.
Beans Paruppu Usili
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9 comments:

  1. wow such an tempting usli and mor kuzhambu :) looks very delicious !!

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  2. Amazing pictures and it's nice to read about the similarities...I am now thinking as I too had opted to make these two..lol

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  3. Omg, both ur dishes are making me hungry even after having my dinner, so comforting meal.

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  4. Love this combo.. it can never go wrong

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  5. This combo is new to me and is sounding better with every new variation I read about it.

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  6. Nice combo. I am sure usili taste good with pulusu.

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  7. Delicious combo! beans paruppu usili looks so good...

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  8. This is one combo which everyone at home love it anytime. Looks so tempting!

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