Celery Paruppu Usili
Celery paruppu Usili is a South Indian traditional recipe with a modern touch, prepared using lentil-based crumble and celery.
Ingredients
For Paruppu Usili
- 1/4 cup channa dal
- 1/4 cup toor dal
- 3 dry red chillies adjust as needed
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1/8 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 sprig curry leaves
For Cooking Celery
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 spring curry leaves
- 1 dry red chilli broken into pieces
- 1 big pinch asafoetida
- 2 cups celery cut into small cubes
- 3/4 tsp salt adjust as needed
- 1/4 cup water
Instructions
- Wash both channa dal and toor dal 2 or 3 times. Add dry red chillies to it and soak altogether for 2 hours.
- Drain the water and add the soaked dal and dry red chillies to a blender along with cumin seeds, turmeric powder, and curry leaves. Blend it to a coarse paste without adding water.
- Make equal-sized patties and steam them for 5-7 minutes. Once done, cool it down and crumble it using an oiled hand or pulse it using a blender for few seconds.
- In a frying pan, heat oil. Add mustard seeds, chopped curry leaves, and broken dry red chillies. Allow it to splutter. Add a big pinch of asafoetida.
- Add chopped celery to it. After adding salt and water, stir it well.
- Cover & cook it for 5 minutes. There should be no trace of water once the celery is cooked.
- Add lentil crumble and mix gently until everything incorporated well.
- Celery Paruppu Usili ready to serve.
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Notes
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- Do not add water while grinding the dal mixture. Adding water doesn’t give a crumble consistency which is very much required for this dish.
- Cooling down the dal patties is an important step to get a perfect dal crumble.
- Cooking time might vary depending on the vegetable you use.
- You can also steam cook the celery without adding water to it.
- You can sprinkle fresh grated coconut at the end if personally like it.