Ingredients

• 3 cups - toor dal
• 4 - red chillies
• Asafoetida
• 2 cups - mixed vegetables (cabbage/cauliflower/beans/cluster beans - finely chopped)
• 1/2 tsp - turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp - mustard seed
• 1/2 tsp - urad dal
• 4 tbsp - oil
• Salt, to taste

How to Make Vegetable Paruppu Usili

• Soak the dal along with red chillies for 1 hour.
• Wash and drain the dal and grind it coarsely with chillies (without adding water).
• Put a little asafoetida powder and required salt in the ground dal.
• Spread oil evenly in one container of the pressure cooker. Spread the ground dal evenly in the vessel.
• Put the finely chopped vegetables mixed with a little turmeric and salt in another container and pressure cook till done (at least 4 whistles.)
• After removing from the cooker, cool the dal well and grind it in mixie without adding water.
• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and when it splutters, add urad dal.
• Add the ground dal and fry till golden brown.
• Put the boiled vegetable in dal and stir well and keep in a low flame for 2-3 mins and remove from fire.