Long Beans Paruppu Usli - Healthy recipe

This is a simple, healthy recipe where lentils are steamed and stirred in with spiced green beans, long beans, cluster beans(kothavarangai) or banana flower(vazha poo). You can actually prepare this without a single drop of oil and yet it tastes sooo good :)  This can be made in under 30 minutes!

You Need -

Long beans - 1 bunch
Toor dal - 150 g

Channa Dal (Bengal gram dal or கடலை பருப்பு) - 80 g

Red chillies - 2 or 3

Hing (பெருங்காயம்) - 2 drizzles

Salt - to taste

How To -

• Soak both the dals together in enough water for 2 hours.
• Then, drain the water (a little water is ok), add red chillies, hing and salt to the dals and make a semi-powder, semi-paste mixture from the dals.

• Steam the mixture. You can use your idli-plates to steam it. Alternatively, I steam it on the top deck of my electric rice cooker, while my rice gets done simultaneously. 

• Meanwhile, chop your long beans fine and steam them as well. Add salt while you steam your veggie, for a better taste.
• When the dal-mixture is done, crumble them with a strong stainless steel tablespoon or use something like this to crush the dal.

• Mix in the cooked beans and there you go!
• Serve with rice and tangy rasam and they make an awesome combination!

Tangy Tomato Rasam to go with Usli

Enjoy your usli while it is warm :)