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| Huli with Brinjal,Potato and Ripe french beans seeds |
In Karnataka we prepare huli(ಹುಳಿ) and saru(ಸಾರು) regularly. Usual daily menu
will be rice and huli or rice, saru and a vegetable dish. If huli prepared no
need to prepare another dish with vegetable. So when we are very busy rice and
huli is the best menu.
Huli can be prepared with a single vegetable or mixed vegetables.
Huli can also prepared with vegetable mixed with Beans (ಕಾಳುಗಳು) .Brinjal and
Bengal gram, Amaranth (ದನ್ಟಿನ ಸೊಪ್ಪು) and Bengal gram, Ash gourd and Bengal gram.
Chow-chow and black eyed peas (ಅಲಸಂದೆ ಕಾಳು ), Brinjal and Flat beans (ಅವರೇಕಾಳು) are a few well known combinations.
When we do not have vegetable at home Menthya bele huli( ಮೆಂತ್ಯಬೇಳೆಹುಳಿ) can be prepared.It goes very well with Aralu sandige( ಅರಳುಸಂಡಿಗೆ)!.
Huli can be prepared with stored huli pudi or freshly
prepared masala.
Huli (ಹುಳಿ) with huli pudi (ಹುಳಿಪುಡಿ)
Ingredients
Tovar dhal(ತೊಗರಿಬೇಳೆ) 1 cup
Vegetable of Your choice 1/ Kg
Mysore Sarinapudi 1 tea spoon
Huli pudi 3 tea spoons.
Salt 3 tea spoons.
Tamarind size of a lemon
Seasoning
Oil 3 teaspoons
Mustard seeds ½ tea spoon
Byadagi chillies 2 broken into pieces
Asafoetida 1 pinch
Curry leaves 2
sprigs
Method
Take washed Tovar dhal
in a medium size pressure cooker and 4 cups of water and boil. Remove froth
that forms with a ladle. Add ¼ tea spoon of turmeric powder and 1 tea spoon of
cooking oil and close the lid .When steam comes out of the vent place the
weight on the vent and press. As soon as the cooker “whistles”, reduce the flame
and cook for just 3 minutes. Allow to cool.
(You can also cook dhal in a separator in a big cooker along
with rice. In this method we have to wait for a long time as cooker takes
longer time to cool)
Soak tamarind in a cup of hot water.
Wash, peel and cut vegetables .Pieces should be approximately
equal in size. Place them in a small pressure cooker with ¼ cup of water add ½
tea spoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of sarina pudi. Mix well and cover the lid.
Steam comes out of the vent.If you are cooking vegetables which take less time to cook
such as Brinjal, cucumber, and snake gourd, cover the vent with a tumbler and
reduce the heat and cook for 2 to 3 minutes on a slow flame.
For other vegetables which take more time for cooking, such
as French beans cluster beans Knol –kohl, place the weight on the vent reduce
the flame and cook for 1 minute and switch off the stove.Do not wait till the cooker whistles. Allow to cool.
By practice you will come to know the exact cooking time.
Squeeze and extract
tamarind pulp from the soaked tamarind.
Transfer cooked vegetable to the cooker containing dhal. Add water
if needed. Mix Huli pudi with ¼ cup of water and add. Add salt and boil for 2
to 3 minutes stirring in between. Finally add tamarind paste, reduce the flame
and boil for few more minutes so that vegetable absorbs salt,sour and spicy taste.
Heat 3 teaspoons of oil in a ladle; add mustard seed Byadagi
chillies pieces and asafoetida. When mustard seeds splutter add curry leaves
and add to the Huli.
Serve with hot rice. Aralu sandige goes well with Huli.
