Carrot Usili
- 29
- September
- 2009
Carrot Usili:
Mommy’s favourite dish.
Ingredients:
Carrot 1/2 kilo(chopped)
Mustard seeds 1/2 spoon
Cumin seeds 1/2 spoon
Chana dal 1/2 spoon
Urad dal 1/2 spoon
Curry leaves few
Green chilies 3 finely chopped
Dry red chilies 6
Thuvar dal 1 cup(soaked in water for 20 minutes)
Ginger-garlic paste 1 spoon
Fennel seeds 3 spoons
Salt(to grind with dal)
Salt for beans
Turmeric 1 pinch
Curry leaves few(to grind)
Oil 2 cups
Method:
In a blender dry grind fennel seeds, salt, dry chilies and curry leaves. Set them aside.
Wet grind chana dal bit coarsely and set aside.
In a pan, heat oil. Add mustard, cumin, curry leaves, chana and urad dal. Let them pop and splutter well.
To this add green chilies and chopped carrot. Fry well. Add salt and 1 pinch of turmeric powder. Sprinkle little water over this. Cover and cook.
When it is 3/4th cooked add thoor-wet ground paste and cook without lid. Let the dal paste get well coated with the vegetable.Toss to all the sides..until dal gets fried and cooked.
Run few spoons of oil now, if needed. The dal should not be wet or undercooked anymore. It should be sort of crispy and fragrant now.
Serve this hot as a side dish to rice or chappathi/roti.
Thts an interestingly new recipe for me..looks yumm!!!
lovely colour dish…i love anything made of carrots…very healthy and yet delicious…
Thanks to you, One more new dish in my list !
wow, this i did not know, must give this a try, looks very yummy
Mom’s favorite has become my favorite now:) Lovely curry.
Usili with any veggie…..Love it! Attractive color and healthy also!
very diff one dear..:)
very creative recipe,yummy
Very healthy and colorful Usili!!!
Very interesting dish…with so many spices in it…the color is just so beautiful
Wow! fantastic pics dear. Carrot Usili looks great.
Hi Malar,
Great Blog!! Carrot Usili , looks gorgeous. Keep n touch
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Wow.. delicious usli..!
I do usli in Kovakkai , pavakkai and kothavaranga.
This sound new to me
wonderful pic…….
this recipe is new to me… sounds so yummy!
This is something new to me…sounds tasty…
Looks colorful and delicious Malar, I have never tried carrot usili, I should make this dish with rasam
u mean wet grind the toor dal right and not chana dal in line 2 of the procedure?
sorry for sounding dumb.. am new to indian cooking hence asking..
such a pretty dish…