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Parupu usli (South Indian side dish). Recipe Category: Side Dish Recipe Cuisine: Tamil Brahmin Author: Padhu Sankar Ingredients needed. 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.

Paruppu Usili is a simple authentic South Indian side dish that can be served with rice, any curry and papad.

Paruppu stands for lentil (dal) and usili stands for crumbled.

This dish is popular among the Tamil Brahmin community and is a must dish in their wedding menu.

You can cook Parupu usli (South Indian side dish) using 8 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Parupu usli (South Indian side dish)

1. Prepare 1/2 cup of broccoli chopped.

2. You need 1 handful of toor dhal.

3. Prepare 1 handful of chanadhal.

4. It’s 1/2 teaspoon of jeera.

5. You need 1 of green chilli.

6. It’s 4 of Dry red chillies.

7. You need as per taste of Salt.

8. You need 1/2 teaspoon of mustard seeds.

I first tasted this in one of my Iyengar friend's wedding.

Paruppu Usili is a Traditional South Indian (tamil) curry/side dish prepared with lentils and vegetables.

Usually paruppu usili is made with vegetables like cabbage, banana flower (vazhaipoo), french beans and cluster beans.

This is very popular among tamil brahmins.

Parupu usli (South Indian side dish) step by step

1. Soak two dal for the first 3 to 4 hours or overnight. Then grind the dhal with cumin, hing ginger, green chilli and red chilli. Take an idli plate grease it and steam like idli take it out after ten minutes and saute it in oil for two minutes and then put it in the grinder and grind it again..

2. Take a little oil in another pan add oil heat it and mustard seeds and cook the broccoli and then add lentils in it and sauté for 5 minutes. If you find it dry you can add a sprinkling of water. Serve with rasam rice..

I have prepared it in typical Iyer style.

Menthia Keerai Paruppu Usili Recipe is a traditional South Indian dish which is a combination of steamed crumbled lentils combined with finely chopped steamed beans or sautéed fenugreek leaves or carrots or capsicum or vazhaipoo (banana flower).

The steamed lentils are stirred in with vegetables and spiced with red chillies and asafoetida to get the burst of flavours.

Beans paruppu usili is a classic South Indian dry sabzi recipe.

I have adapted the same family recipe of making usili and paired it with paneer to make Paneer Paruppu Usili.