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15 October, 2018

Kadale bele Usli | Split bengal gram Salad |

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Extremely delicious, fiber rich, includes high protein, healthy Kadale bele usli or Split bengal gram salad, salad, which is necessarily made during festivals, that too specially during navaratri festival or Dasara festival or bombe habba.

My mom used make it on Sunday evenings as tea time snack or on other days as an after school snack. This can also be prepared as an accompaniment with tili saaru/Plain rasam, which we can prepare using the lentil stock or strained water in which the lentil has been cooked (below I have posted the pic of the same as well).

It is very easy to prepare using very few ingredients and tastes yummy when made little more spicy.   This salad/usli is one of my favorite. The below mentioned quantity of ingredients is enough to serve 3 to 4 persons.

 You can also check the recipe of  split green gram/hesarubele uppittu/usli , sabbakki hesarubele uppittu here on my blog.

Ingredients : the measuring cup used is of 200 ml

  • Kadalebele/split bengal gram/chana dal – 1 cup
  • Water – 4 cups
  • Grated fresh coconut – 1/2 to 3/4 cup
  • Salt – to taste

For tempering :

  • Oil – 1/2 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds – 3/4 tsp
  • Green chilli – 1&1/2 tbsp (adjust)
  • Curry leaves – 2 strings
  • Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
  • Hing – 1/4 tsp
  • Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Juice of 1 lemon

PROCEDURE :

  • Pressure cook the lentil using 4 cups of water, till 4 whistles, when pressure releases, pass it through the strainer and collect the strained water in a vessel
  • Heat oil in a pan, add in all the ingredients listed below the heading ‘for tempering’, except lemon juice and saute well
  • Now add in cooked lentil, coconut and salt and stir well for a minute or so, then remove from the heat
  • Put lemon juice and mix well again and serve hot

HOW TO MAKE SAARU/RASAM BY USING ITS STOCK :

  • For 2 cups of strained lentil water, put 1 medium sized ground tomato, 3/4 tbsp saarina pudi/rasam powder, 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tbsp tamarind juice, a small piece of jaggery, salt to taste (1 tsp) and boil well
  • Prepare the tempering using 1 tsp ghee, 1/2 tsp mustard seeds, few curry leaves and 1/8 tsp of hing
  • Pour it on the prepared saaru/rasam, (you can also add 2 tbsp of grated fresh coconut) mix well and serve with hot steaming rice

However you can have a look at some more Usli or Kosambari recipes, like –