Kothavarangai Paruppu Usili | Clustered Beans Recipe | Seeni Avarakkai Usili

Kothavarangai Paruppu Usili is a Tamil brahmin style side dish recipe made using clustered beans. Normally all my home food will be made with coconut. So whenever i want an alternative to coconut based dish I make usili. This goes excellent with almost any type of kuzhambu. Plan this for the next meal and you will be bragging for giving a tasty and healthy food to your family. Recipe after the jump...

Kothavarangai Paruppu Usili

Recipe Cuisine: South Indian | Recipe Category: Side dish

Prep Time: 10 mins | Cooking Time: 30 mins | Serves: 3

Ingredients:

Kothavarangai / Clustered beans - 1/4 kg

Channa dal / Kadalai Paruppu - 1/2 cup

Red chilli - 4

Asafoetida / Perungaya podi - a generous pinch

Turmeric - 1/4 tsp

Salt - to taste

To temper:

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Cumin seeds / Jeeragam - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - a sprig

Method:

Soak channa dal for an hour. Drain excess water and take it in a blender, add red chilli, salt and asafoetida. Grind it to a coarse paste.

Grease an idli plate, place the ground dal on it and steam cook for 5 to 7 minutes. Crumble the cooked dal in a mixer.

Wash and chop the clustered beans. Then cook adding turmeric and salt till it becomes soft.

Heat oil in a pan, season with mustard seeds, cumin seeds. Once it crackles, add curry leaves.

Add the crumbled dal and fry for 5 minutes. Add in cooked beans and sauté for a 2 to 3 minutes. Switch off the flame.

Serve!

Pictorial:

Keep all your ingredients ready Soak channa dal for an hour.

Drain excess water and take it in a blender, add red chilli, salt

and asafoetida.

Grind it to a coarse paste.

Grease an idli plate, place the ground dal on it and steam cook for 5 to 7 minutes.

Meanwhile, wash and chop the clustered beans.

Then cook adding turmeric and salt till it becomes soft.

The dal is steam cooked for 7 minutes and now ready to crumble

Take the cooked dal in a blender

Crumble the cooked dal in a mixer.

Clustered beans is cooked now

Heat oil in a pan, season with mustard seeds, cumin seeds. Once it crackles, add curry leaves.

Add the crumbled dal

and stir fry for 5 minutes.

Add in cooked beans

Sauté for a 2 to 3 minutes. Switch off the flame.

Kothavarangai Paruppu usili is ready!