Cluster Beans curry - Kothavarangai usili

Ingredients:

Cluster Beans - Kothavarangai - 1/4 kg
Bengal gram dal - Kadalai paruppu - 1/2 cup
Red gram dal - Thuvaram paruppu - 1 spoon
Cumin seeds - Jeeragam - 1 tea spoon
Red chillies - Kaintha milagai - 2 nos.
Onion - Vengayam - 1 no. (Small)
Mustard seeds - Kadugu - 1 tea spoon
Red chilly powder - Milagai thul - 1/4 tea spoon
Turmeric powder - Manjal thul - 1/4 tea spoon
Asafoetida - Perungayam - a pinch
Curry leaves - Karuvepilai - small quantity
Black gram dal - Ulutham paruppu - 1 table spoon
Oil for frying
Salt to taste

Method:

1. Wash and soak bengal gram dal and red gram dal in water for some 2 hours. Grind it to a paste adding very little water along with cumin seeds and red chillies. Red chillies - 2 nos. and cumin seeds should be soaked along with dal.
2. Next we have to clean and cut the vegetable into 1/2 inch size. Pressure cook or microwave adding little salt.
3. Heat oil in a pan/kadai, add asafoetida, splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds, red chillies, curry leaves, black gram dal and fry for some time. Then add chopped onions add very little salt and fry for some time.
4. Mean while the grinded dal should be kept in idly cooker or in an ordinary cooker keeping piramanai or a stand and keeping a plate over which the grinded dal should be spread over. Once it is boiled split it over hand and add to the kadai. Add the boiled vegetables and fry for some time.

Kothavarangai paruppu usili is delicious and ready to be served. It can be served for 3 persons. It requires hardly 20 minutes to cook. It can be served for lunch. It is a special item prepared during special occasions like wedding, party etc.,

Note: If we use only red gram dal it will become too watery, thickess will not come. Hence only 1 spoon can be added along with red gram dal.

Optional: Ingredients can be added/removed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_bean

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Beans Dal fry - Beans paruppu usili

Ingredients:

Beans - Beans - small quantity
Bengal gram dal - Kadalai paruppu - 1/2 cup
Red gram - Thuvaram paruppu - 1 table spoon
Cumin seeds - Jeeragam - 1 tea spoon
Red chillies - Kaintha milagai - 3 nos.
Asafoetida - Perungayam - a pinch
Curry leaves - Karuvepilai - small quantity
Salt to taste
Oil for frying

Method:

For usili and seasoning please refer usili varieties. Wash and cut beans and boil it. Add to the usili.

Beans paruppu usili is delicious and ready to be served. It can be served with any of the rice items. It takes hardly 20 minutes to cook. It can be served for 3 persons.

Note: Cut beans into 1/4 inch size.

Optional: Ingredients can be added/removed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beans

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James Beard

Dal fry - Paruppu usili

Ingredients:

Bengal gram dal - Kadalai paruppu - 1/2 cup
Red gram - Thuvaram Paruppu - 1 table spoon
Cumin seeds - Jeeragam - 1 tea spoon
Red chillies - Kaintha milagai - 2 nos.
Curry leaves
Mustard seeds - Kadugu - 1 tea spoon
Asafoetida - Perungayam - a pinch
Salt to taste
Oil for frying

Method:

1. Wash and soak both dals along with one red chilly and cumin seeds for an hour and grind them to a coarse paste. Add only little water. Pour the paste in idly plate and pressure cook it.
2. Then split into small pieces with hands. Heat oil in a pan/kadai, splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, red chilly, add little asafoetida and add the dal. Mix them well adding little salt. Fry them for some 5-10 minutes.

Paruppu usili is delicious and ready to be served. It can be served with any rice item. Any vegetables can be cooked and added to this. It takes some 15 minutes to prepare other than soaking time. It can be served for 3 persons.

Note: Since red gram will be more soft when grinded only a table spoon is more than enough. While keeping in idly cooker care must be taken so that it is not overcooked, else it will become too hard to break. It can be kept in microwave oven also. Then 3 minutes is more than enough if kept in oven. Some pour water in the cooker, place a stand/Piramanai and keep a plate, apply little oil and place the grinded dal and cook it. Anyways we can cook the dal.

Optional: Ingredients can be added/removed.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on
George Bernard Shaw