Ingredients
Method
For Usal :
- Soak moth beans overnight. In the morning cover all the beans with cloth and keep them aside to germinate (around 5-6 hours).Cook it in the pressure cooker.
- Chop onions and crushed garlic cloves.
- In a pot heat 2 tbsp oil. Add mustard seeds. When they starts to sputter add asafoetida, turmeric powder, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, curry leaves, crushed garlic and fry for a minute on a low flame.
- Add 2 chopped onions and saute for 5 minutes.
- Add amsul and cooked moth beans and 2 cups of water. Put the lid on and cook till the onions gets soft (for about 15-20 minutes).
- Add misal masala, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt and let it simmer on low heat for 10 minutes. Turn off the heat.
For kut or Tarri :
- Heat one tbsp oil. Add 1 chopped onion, 10 garlic cloves, ginger, whole black peppercorn. cloves, cinnamon stick, whole red chillis. Saute on a low flame for 10 minutes.
- Add dry coconut and saute it for 5 minutes.
- Turn off the heat and let it cool for 10 minutes.
- Blend it in a blender with 1 1/2 cups of water, 1 tsp chili powder and salt.
- In a pot heat 3 tbsp oil. Add red 1 tsp red chili powder.
- Add above made tadka to the kut.
- Boil the kut for 5 minutes on medium heat.
For Assembly :
- Chop 2 onions and 2 tomatoes finely. Slice the lemon.
- In a serving bowl take some usal, add chopped onion, tomato, farsan, roasted salted peanut.
- Pour the kut on top.
- Garnish it with coriander leaves.
- Serve it with bread, chopped onion and lemon slices.
