Paruppu Usili is the crumbled soft dal which is combined with vegetables to make very delicious Poriyal variety or dry curry. The most common vegetables used for Usili are Banana Flower, Beans and Cluster Beans. But we can also try Asparagus, Broccoli, spinach, Radish greens and many more vegetables. I was looking at Geetha mami's Agraharam Recipes and while i was listening to her Paruppu Usili recipe, she mentioned about capsicum paruppu usual. I have never tried usili with Capsicum. Hearing itself made be drooling. I immediately planned to make Capsicum Usili and it turned out so awesome. I personally started liking capsicum paruppu usili more than any other usili varieties. The crunchiness of capsicum along with soft crumbled dal makes this delectable!!

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There are 2 ways to make this Usili:

Dals are soaked overnight or atleast for 2 hours and ground to paste with red chili and the paste is then crumbled with little oil and added to the stir-fried capsicum. I have given here this way of making Usili
Soaked dal is ground to fine paste and make small dumplings out of the paste. Steam cook the dumplings and then crumble it with your hand. We can then mix that crumbled dal mixture to the cooked vegetable.

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Method with Step by Step Pictures:

SOAKING DALS

Wash and soak chana dal and toor dal and set aside soaked dals for atleast 2 hours or overnight.

PREPARING USILI

Drain water from the soaked dal, take the dal to the mixer jar.

Add red chili, asafoetida, salt and grind it to smooth paste

Heat oil in a pan. Add the ground dal paste.

Keep the flame in low and let the dal paste crumbles on its own. Set this dal crumble aside

TEMPERING PROCESS

Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and allow it to sputter. Next, add split urad dal and fry till light brown. Then toss few curry leaves and saute for few seconds.