Carrot Beans Parupu Usili

Parupu usili is a very famous Tamil or south Indian dish.It is mainly prepared with vegetables such as cluster beans,beans,vazhapoo (banana flower),cabbage etc.Cluster beans parupu usili being very famous often takes a place in tam-bram wedding feasts.It is a very healthy dish with a mixture of toor,gram dal. Today I made parupu usili with beans and I also added a lone carrot that was sitting in the fridge and it tasted awesome. The proportion of dals usually varies from home to home.we normally use 1:1. This usually is served with kozhambu varieties(in which dals are not added).

Ingredients:
1/4 kg beans washed and chopped fine
1 carrot  washed,peeled and chopped fine
1/2 cup gram dal
1/2 cup toor dal
10 curry leaves
1/2 tsp asafoetida
4 dried red chilies
Mustard seeds
salt to taste
Method:
Soak both dals together for 10 to 20 minutes (maximum) and grind coarsely with chilies,asafoetida,curry leaves and salt.Steam the ground dals for 10 minutes and set aside.Boil the chopped vegetables with enough salt and drain.Now heat little oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds,once they splutter and the steamed dal and saute for 10 minutes (for crispy usili you can add little more oil and saute for more time). Now add the boiled vegetables and mix well and saute for 5 minutes,garnish with few curry leaves.Serve hot with rice and kozhambu or rasam.
Time: 40 minutes( including soaking time)
Serves :4
Notes:
1.Ratio of dals can be changed according to taste.(can reduce toor dal and add more gram dal for crispy parupu usili)
2.Vegetables such as cabbage,cluster beans can be used.