Enjoy this yummy dish!!!
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
- 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.
- 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 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.
