Clustered Beans Lentil Crumble / Kothavarangai Paruppu Usuli

Posted on Oct 2nd, 2009

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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Paruppu Usuli is a traditional brahmin recipe. It is dhal crumbles on the vegetable like Kothavarangai (clustered Beans) or a beans. This dhal crumbles gives a wonderful flavor to this curry. This will go very well with Moor Kuzhambu.

Clustered Beans Lentil Crumble / Kothavarangai Paruppu Usuli

Ingredients:

Kothavarangai(Clustered Beans)	1/2 Kg
Salt	To Taste

For Seasoning:

Oil	1 Teaspoon
Mustard Seeds	1 Teaspoon
Urdhal	1 teaspoon

For Grinding:

Thurdal	3/4 cup
Channa Dal	1/4 Cup
Salt	To Taste
Hing	A Pinch
Red Chilli	2

Method:

Soak the Dal’s in water over night or in hot boiling water for at least 2 hours. Rinse the Dal’s and strain the water and grind it in mixer once along with red chilli, hing and salt without adding water

The ground mixture should be coarse. Heat the oil in the pan, and add the ground paste and keep the flame in low

Allow the ground paste to cook in oil and it will crumble down into smaller pieces. In a separate pan, heat some oil and add mustard seeds when the oil is hot.

When the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add the urdhal and fry till it turns into golden brown color. To this add chopped Kothavarangai(Clustered Beans) along with salt and sprinkle some water to cook the Kothavarangai(Clustered Beans). We can also cook the cluster beans in pressure cooker and then add the cooked cluster beans directly after seasoning. This will simplify our process further.

When the Kothavarangai(Clustered Beans) is cooked completely, add the broken Dal mixture and mix it well. The mouth-watering Kothavarangai(Clustered Beans) paruppu usuli is ready to serve.