11 April, 2019
DRIED PEAS USLI/SALAD
It is made exactly like how we make usli/salad using dried chickpeas, black eyed beans/lobia, horse gram/hurali/kulthi or whole green gram. These are all a protein rich, fibre rich, healthy accompaniments served with meals, mostly with lunch. We also make saaru/rasam and huli/dal using the stock/water in which these legumes are cooked and make salad/usli using the cooked legumes and we call it as ‘kalina kattina saaru/huli’. Likewise today I’m here with the recipe of usli/salad made using dried peas. I have taken equal quantity of both yellow and green dried peas, but can be made separately using any one of them at a time. Tastes best when made little more spicy but depends on your choice of preferred spice level.
Some other usli/salad recipes on this blog are – masala corn pomegranate usli/salad , chickpea-corn-pomegranate usli/salad , hurali kalina usli/salad , chickpea/kadlekalu usli-huli , bengal gram/Kadlebele usli/salad , gugguri usli/salad , cowpeas/alasande kalu/lobia sweet usli
Ingredients :
- Dried yellow + green peas – 1/2 cup of each
- Water – 2 cups
- Oil – 1/2 tbsp
- Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
- Split bengal gram – 1&1/2 tbsp
- Split black gram – 1 tbsp
- Green chili, chopped – 6 to 8 (adjust)
- Curry leaves – 2 strands
- Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
- Grated fresh coconut – 1/2 cup (the more you add better it tastes)
- Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
- Salt – to taste
PROCEDURE :
- Rinse well and soak both the peas in enough water for overnight or 7 to 8 hours
- Boil 2 cups of water in a pressure cooker, add in the soaked peas and cook up to 2 to 3 whistles (or depending on your pressure cooker) or till soft
- Heat oil in a pan add in mustard seeds, bengal gram, black gram saute for a while, then add in green chili, coriander leaves and curry leaves, saute again for a while, add in turmeric powder, stir well
- Now add in cooked peas (if it is not fully soft, then add along with its water and boil further un till soft) and salt and allow it boil till all the water evaporates
- Then add in coconut, turn off the heat and add in lemon juice, combine everything well and serve
