Beans Usili

After a long time I made usili... beans usili.... and mour kozhambu... wat a combination.... enjoyed my afternoon meal thoroughly.... Its a real treat to the tasting buds....

Ingredients:

Beans (finely chopped) - 1 1/2 Cup

Toor Dhal - 1/4 Cup

Channa Dhal - 1/4 Cup

Red Chilli - 3-4 nos

Salt - 1 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1 pinch

Oil - 2 tbsp (preferably coconut oil)

Mustard - 1/2 tsp

Urad dhal - 1 tsp

Curry leaves - 2 sprigs

Asafoedita - 1/4 tsp

How to make it:

1. Soak the Toor dhal & Channa dhal and red chilli in water for 2 hours. 

2. Grind the soaked dhal and red chilli coarsely. Don't add water. Just sprinkle little for grinding purpose. Add 1/2 tsp salt and asafoedita to it and mix well.

3. In a pan add oil, add mustard,  urad dhal and broken red chilli for tampering. Add the curry leaves and beans to it. Add salt, turmeric powder and sprinkle little water for the beans to cook.

4. Add the dhal mixture to the beans. We can add it directly and cook until the dhal is well cooked. But this will obsorb more oil. Else, you can cook in microwave for a min to reduce the cooking time. This way the oil consumption is also lesser.

5.  Cook until the dhal is well cooked. Cook in low flame so that it gives a crispy texture aslo...