India
Vazhaipoo Usili Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 medium Banana Flower
- 1/3 cup Tur dal
- cup ¼Chana Dal
- 2 Red Chilly
- 2 green chilly
- pinch Aof Turmeric Powder
- tsp ½Asafetida
- salt to taste
- For Seasoning
- 2 tsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 8-10 Curry Leaves
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Instructions
- Wash and soak chana gram and tur dal for 2 hours.
- Grind it along with green chilly, red chilly, salt and asafetida coarsely without adding water. Keep it aside.
- Clean banana flower and chop it finely. Keep it in diluted buttermilk till use.
- Pressure-cook the banana flower.
- Steam the ground dal in a greased idly pan or steamer. When the dal is cooked, allow it to cool. Then blend it in a mixer for a few seconds. You can crumble the dal with your hands also but using the blender gives you uniform particles.
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add curry leaves and the crumbled dal. Fry for a few minutes.
- Then add the banana flower and fry both together for a few minutes. Check for salt.
- Serve.