Beans Usili:

(Beans Puttu)

Ingredients:

Beans 1/2 kilo(Finely chopped)
Mustard seeds 1/2 spoon
Cumin seeds 1/2 spoon
Chenna dal 1/2 spoon
Urad dal 1/2 spoon
Curry leaves few
Green chilies 3 finely chopped
Dry red chilies 6
Chenna dal 1 cup(soaked in water for 20 minutes)
Ginger-garlic paste 1 spoon
Fennel seeds 3 spoons
Salt(to grind with dal)
Salt for beans
Turmeric 1 pinch
Curry leaves few(to grind)
Oil 2 cups

Method:

In a blender dry grind fennel seeds, salt, dry chilies and curry leaves. Set them aside.

Wet grind chenna dal bit coarsely and set aside. In a pan, heat oil. Add mustard, cumin, curry leaves, chenna and urad dal. Let them pop and splutter well.

To this add green chilies and beans. Fry well.

Add salt and 1 pinch of turmeric powder. Sprinkle little water overt this. Cover and cook.

When it is 3/4th cooked add chenna wet ground paste and cook with out cover. Let the dal paste catches up with beans well. Toss to all the sides..until dal gets fried and cooked.

Run few spoons of oil now, if needed.