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Beans Paruppu Usili Recipe-Paruppu Usili Curry-Tamil Brahmin Recipes

December 6, 2014 by PadhuSankar 20 Comments

Paruppu Usili is a very popular Tamil Brahmin dish. It is commonly prepared with vegetables like plantain flower, cluster beans, cabbage, french beans, broad beans etc. It is one of our family’s favorite dish. It pairs well with mor kuzhambu, milagu kuzhambu and vathal kuzhambu. Today we will learn how to make French Beans Paruppu Usili (Iyer style) following this easy recipe with step wise pictures. 

Beans Paruppu Usili

Beans Paruppu Usili Recipe


Beans Paruppu Usili

 Prep Time : 10 mins

 Cook Time : 20 mins 
 Serves: 3-4
 Recipe Category: Side Dish
 Recipe Cuisine: Tamil Brahmin
 Author:Padhu Sankar

   Ingredients needed

   French Beans – 1 1/2 cup chopped
   Tur Dal -1/3 cup
   Bengal gram dal/kadalai paruppu/chana dal -1 1/2 tbsp
   Red Chilli -1
   Green chilli -2
   Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp
   Salt to taste

   For the seasoning

   Oil – 1 1/2 tbsp
   Mustard seeds -1 tsp
   Curry leaves -1 sprig
   Asafoetida/hing

Preparation 


String the beans and chop it finely. Cook beans with a little salt until soft adding needed water. You can also steam beans. Keep it aside.

Wash and soak tur dal and bengal gram together for 1 hour. Drain the water completely and grind it coarsely with red chillies, green chillies, turmeric powder and salt needed.

soaked dal for beans usili

Method


Now steam the coarsely ground dal for 15 minutes or until cooked. You can use a steamer or an idli pan.

steaming dal for beans usili

Once cooked remove from the pan and leave it to cool for a few minutes. Then crumble the dal with your hands or you can use the mixie. You will get evenly crumbled dal when done in a mixie. Just put the steamed dal in the mixie (see picture below) and operate it for a second.  Now our crumbled dal is also ready.

steamed dal for paruppu usili

Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add hing and curry leaves. Then add the crumbled dal, mix well and cook on medium flame for 2-3 minutes.

Then add the cooked beans (if there is water in your beans, drain and squeeze out the water completely and then add) and mix well with the crumbled dal. Cook covered for another 2-3 minutes and remove from heat.

beans paruppu usili recipe-Iyer style

Beans Paruppu Usili is ready. Serve it with hot steamed rice and mor kuzhambu or vathal kuzhambu. I love having it even with plain hot steamed rice.

You will love my Kothavarangai Paruppu Usili and Vazhaipoo Paruppu Usili also.

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Comments

  1. Farin Ahmed

    December 6, 2014 at 4:36 pm

    Beautiful Beans usili ..love your stepwise

    Reply
  2. Vidya Sury

    December 7, 2014 at 5:57 am

    I love paruppusali! 🙂 I make it often. My favorite is kothranga paruppusali!

    Reply
  3. VS

    October 1, 2015 at 9:07 am

    Hi.. Nice recipe.. Tried this today and came out well.. Thanks for the recipe.. To add, I have tried most of your recipes and results are too good.. Similar to my mom's they are…

    Have a request Padhu… Can you please post the recipe for "White Pumpkin Halwa". Wanted to try out. Not much satisfied with the recipes posted at other sites…

    Reply
  4. Ranjini Prabhakar

    October 29, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    Looks very simple & interesting.Will try it today, Thanks Padhu!

    Reply
  5. Aishwarya Pradeep

    December 7, 2015 at 10:37 am

    Great recipe..I would like to share a tip here..instead of steaming the coarsely ground dal,we can jus microwave it for 6 mins in high power..the result is jus the same as steamed one ..then as usual we can put it further in the mixie..and BTW great blogging Padhu..cheers.

    Reply
    • Venkat

      March 31, 2017 at 11:55 pm

      Pls avoid using microwave for even heating food. It has been linked to many health problems because the microwave alters the chemical structure of food.

      Reply
    • Unknown

      March 17, 2019 at 11:11 am

      Very true…microwave has harmful effects

      Reply
  6. Unknown

    December 17, 2015 at 4:54 pm

    Hi. . It came out very well for me as well when i steamed the grinded paste. But the lentils after cooking in microwave it became a little hard to break. Is there difference in steaming and microwave???

    Reply
    • Aishwarya Pradeep

      December 22, 2015 at 9:36 am

      I use microwave for making the parupussili and it comes really well ..I guess u can reduce ur microwaving time a bit to obtain the best result.

      Reply
    • Sunset

      December 22, 2015 at 5:08 pm

      Microwave uses the water in the food to heat. Thus, a microwave usually makes the food drier. Steaming uses the water we add on the pan (not on the food) to cook it. Thus the water content is not lost, making it softer.

      Reply
  7. Renugadevi Mohan

    April 6, 2016 at 2:16 pm

    Great Padhu. Way of description is simply superb.

    Reply
  8. GayathriTech

    July 28, 2016 at 7:02 am

    Tried for the first time… it came well.. my husband tasting first time he also liked it.

    Reply
  9. r sruthi

    February 9, 2017 at 6:04 am

    Hi u have a nice blog, Thanks for the easy steps,tried for the first time. Also I kept beans in cooker for 1 whistle it came out very soft and tender.

    Reply
  10. mahalakshmi palani

    July 19, 2017 at 1:19 am

    Hi Padhu…can we use coconut oil for seasoning??

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      July 19, 2017 at 11:30 am

      Yes, you can. It is your personal preference.

      Reply
  11. Sukanya Sakthivel

    February 8, 2018 at 11:08 am

    Hi, Padhu Tried this out yesterday. Came out Yummy. My husband loved it. Very simple steps, Easy to follow

    Reply
  12. Sruthi Subramaniam

    April 11, 2018 at 1:58 pm

    All your records are simple and wonderful. Thank you very much.

    Reply
  13. Suresh Rajan

    July 25, 2018 at 7:51 am

    How many whistles do I have wait for till the beans is cooked well?
    Can someone educate me on this please??

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      July 25, 2018 at 10:01 am

      No pressure cooking the beans. Just cook without whistle, sprinkle water when needed and cook until soft. If you pressure cook, the beans will get overcooked. But if you want to pressure cook to save time, cook for 1 whistle and release the pressure gently. You can pour a cup of water over the pressure cooker for the steam to release. Then you can gently lift the whistle and release the steam, Only then you can open the cooker. If you have not used pressure cooker before, do not try this. Just steam cook beans.

      Reply
  14. Sowmya V

    October 15, 2022 at 12:16 pm

    The recipe turned out really good.
    Thank you.
    Can you post easy and lazy potato halwa please?

    Reply

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