Beans Paruppu Usili | protein rich food recipe Basically, Paruppu usili can be made with dhal and veggies like beans, cluster beans, moringa keerai, plantain flower, cabbage, or even with bell peppers. This beans paruppu usili is a good nutritious side dish because beans have calcium, dhal has full of protein. It is a dry veggie side dish, this can be used with rice and sambar, rasam or rice and mor kuzhambhu. It is a traditional side dish (beans paruppu usili)in Tamilnadu.

Alternatives:

Here I have used, Kashmiri red chili, you can use two green chilies while grinding.

I crumble the steamed dhal in pan while cooking, In contrast, you can crumble it before you adding into the pan instead.

Let us get into the recipe of Beans Paruppu Usili | protein rich food recipe :

Beans Paruppu usili

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

soaking time 2

Total Time 2 30

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4

Ingredients

For the dhal mixture to grind:

1/4 cup thor dhal
1/2 cup Channa dhal (split)
1 tsp cumin
3 Kashmiri Red Chili
1/4 tsp asafoetida
1/4 tsp turmeric powder

For Stir fry:

2 tbsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp urad dhal
curry leaves few
2 cups beans (chopped)
salt to taste
coriander leaves for garnish

Instructions

To grind the dhal:

Add 3 red chilies alone in a blender jar, blend it coarsely
Add cumin seeds, asafoetida, turmeric powder, and the soaked dhal, blend it coarsely by sprinkling water if it is needed

To Steam cook the dhal:

Take a lemon sized dhal mixture, make it flat, place this in a steam plate/ idli plate
Steam cook it for 10 minutes

For stir fry:

Add 2 tbsp of oil, splutter mustard seeds, add urad dhal and curry leaves
Add chopped beans and saute
Add salt and mix well, add ¼ cup of water, cover and cook for 5 minutes
open the lid add steam-cooked dhal, crumble it, mix well with beans for 5 minutes
Turn off the flame, garnish with coriander leaves