Ingredients

• 250 g - French beans
• 1 cup - Tur dal
• 2-3 - Red chillies
• 1/2 tsp - Hing
• 3 tbsp - Oil
• 1 tsp - Mustard seeds
• Salt to taste

How to Make Parrupu Usli

• Chop the French beans finely and boil it with a little salt and keep it aside. Soak tuvar dal with the red chillies for about 2 hours. Then grind to a coarse paste with a minimum amount of water. Add hing and a little salt.
• Pressure cook the dal mixture till you hear 5 whistles.
• Allow the mixture to cool and break the lumps and make it into a coarse powder (you can use the chopper attachment in the food processor for this).
• Take oil in a pan.
• Add mustard seeds and allow it to splutter.
• Add the dal mix and beans to it and fry well.
• Add salt if required. This goes well with kadhi, jeera rasam and rice.
• Similar preparation can be made with banana flowers in which case the florets have to be separated and the black stamen has to be removed.
• The flowers can be cooked in the pressure cooker along with the dal mix.