Jump to RecipeAlsande Usali is a popular Goan vegetarian dish made with locally produced small kidney beans. This tangy spicy dish is easy and quick recipe and tastes delicious.
Alsande is popularly known a kidney beans In Goa and is a rich source of protein. This Alsande Usali or Alsande usli is a nutritious recipe which can be prepared within 30 minutes. This is like kidney beans stir fry recipe.
Alsande are a type of black-eyed beans which are available in Goa during summer. Appearance wise they look like small rajma or kidney beans. This alasande usali can be served with rotis or bread or with rice as a side dish. You can even pack it in lunch/snack box.
Ingredients to make Alsande usal:
- Alsande / small kidney beans: Alsande or small kidney beans is the star ingredient in this Goan recipe.
- Coconut: Just like any other Goan recipe, grated coconut is a must in this usal with alsande recipe.
- Onion: I have added little red onion to the recipe.
- Garlic and ginger: Minced garlic and ginger are added to the recipe to enhance the taste and flavour.
- For seasoning: Mustard seeds, asafoetida, curry leaves, dry red chilies
- Spice powders: Turmeric powder, red chili powder and coriander powder are the basic spice powders used in this usali recipe.
- Tamarind paste: You can use store-bought ready-made tamarind paste. I have made tamarind paste at home by soaking small marble sided ball of tamarind in warm water and extracting pulp
How to make Goan style usali with alsande?
- Soak the kidney beans/alsande overnight or for 6-8 hrs and later pressure cook for 5 whistles.
- Crush the ginger and garlic and make paste.
- Tamarind paste can be obtained by soaking a handful of tamarind in water and later mashing it.
- In a kadai or pan, add 1 tablespoon oil.
- After oil gets heated, add mustard seeds.
- Once mustard seeds flutter, add asafoetida and dry red chillies.
- Fry a bit and add curry leaves.
- Add onion and fry till it turns pinkish. Add ginger and garlic and cook till raw smell of garlic goes away.
- Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and stir.
- Now add the pressure cooked alsande and stir.
- Mix tamarind paste and stir well.
- Add grated coconut and mix well.
- Add salt to taste and mix.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
How to make no onion no garlic alsandyachi usali?
To make no onion no garlic usali, simply don’t add onion and garlic. Rest of the recipe and ingredients can be followed as mentioned.
Variations for making Goan alsande usal:
If you are not able to find alsande, you can always make this recipe with any type of legumes like black eyes beans(chawli) or hyacinth beans(aavrekai).
You might be interested in other Goan stir fry recipes like black chana usali, moogachi usali, masoorchi usali and chana usali.
Alsande Usali
Equipment
- Pressure cooker
- Kadai / wok
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup alsande / small kidney beans
- 1/4 cup grated coconut
- 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 5 pods garlic minced
- 1/2 inch ginger minced
- 1/2 tablespoon mustard seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon powdered asafoetida
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
- 1/2 tablespoon coriander powder
- 2 tablespoon tamarind paste
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 8-10 curry leaves
- 2 red chillies break into 2 pieces
Instructions
- Soak the kidney beans/alsande overnight or for 6-8 hrs and later pressure cook for 5 whistles.
- In a kadai or pan, add 1 tablespoon oil.
- After oil gets heated, add mustard seeds.
- Once mustard seeds flutter, add asafoetida and dry red chillies.
- Fry a bit and add curry leaves.
- Add onion and fry till it turns pinkish. Add ginger and garlic and cook till raw smell of garlic goes away.
- Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and stir.
- Now add the pressure cooked alsande and stir.
- Mix tamarind paste and stir well.
- Add grated coconut and mix well.
- Add salt to taste and mix.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves
Notes
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Note: This recipe was published on 26 Feb 2011 and is one of the oldest recipe on the website.
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