Bell pepper paruppu usili – Capsicum paruppu usili
Bell pepper paruppu usili – Capsicum paruppu usili is very popular dish in tamilnadu among the Tamil brahmin house.
It is prepared with many vegetables like beans, cabbage, broad beans, cluster beans, capsicum. I made a try with colored bell peppers and it turned out awesome.
I had a checklist prepared for myself to follow healthy diet (definitely not starving diet).
♥ Monday – “ZERO oil monday”
♥ Tuesday, making it a “Colourful Tuesday”
Check out tomorrows post for Wednesdays inspiration. ♥
I have few other usili recipes on my blog.
Bell pepper paruppu usili – Capsicum paruppu usili recipe
bell pepper paruppu usili
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup tur dal
- 2 dry red chilli
- 3/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 cup mixed bell peppers (green, yellow and red)
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/8 tsp chilli powder
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Soak the tur dal for minimum of 1 hour
- strain the water, Grind it along with turmeric powder, salt and red chillies to a thick coarse paste without adding water.
- Now, grease the idli plates or steamer. Flatten the ground paste and keep in in parts in idli plates and steam cook for 10 min.
- after 10 min,crumble them and keep it ready
- Heat oil, splutter mustard seeds. drop the chopped capsicum into it. fry it with little salt, chilli powder until it shrinks.
- Now add the crumbled lentils and mix well. let it get heated for a couple of minutes. switch off and serve hot with rice and curry.
Bell pepper paruppu usili pictorial directions:
Get all your ingredients ready
Soak the tur dal for minimum of 1 hour
strain the water, Grind it along with turmeric powder, salt and red chillies 
to a thick coarse paste without adding water.
Now, grease the idli plates or steamer. Flatten the ground paste and keep in in parts in idli plates and steam cook for 10 min.
after 10 min
crumble them and keep it ready
Heat oil, splutter mustard seeds. 
drop the chopped capsicum into it. 
fry it with little salt, chilli powder until it shrinks. chilli powder is optional. i added it because the colored bell peppers taste slightly sweet.
Now add the crumbled lentils and mix well.
let it get heated for a couple of minutes. switch off and serve hot with rice and curry.
