This is one of the dishes my hubby and some close friends of mine love. It’s a very easy and quick recipe to prepare when you don’t much ingredients at home. I have added okra in this recipe but it will be good with other water vegetables like white pumpkin, zucchini and ridge guard or just plain. This is a dish which you can rely on when you have indigestion problems.
Ingredients 1
- 15 Lady Fingers
- 2-3 cups Curd
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
- ½ tsp Turmeric Powder
- 2-3 dried red chillies
- 7-8 Curry leaves(optional)
- 1/4 tsp- asafetida powder(optional)
- Salt to taste
- 2-3 tsp olive oil/gingerly oil
Ingredients 2
- 3-4 tsp raw rice
- 1-2 tsp Cumin Seed
- 1/3 inch Ginger
- 2-3 tsp coconut grated /2 small peices
- 2-3 Green chilies (chopped)
- 5-6 black peppercorns (optional)
Directions
- Wash lady’s finger and cut into medium size pieces.
- Heat the oil in a pan over medium flame and fry okra pieces for 5-10mins and keep it aside.
- Simultaneously in another pan, dry roast all the items in ingredients 2 –rice, cumin, coconut, chilies and ginger.
- Grind all roasted items, make sure all the ingredients are ground well.
- Then add some water (1/4 cup-1/2 cup) water to dilute the ground mixture and keep aside.
- Heat some oil in the pan and add mustard seeds, dried red chilies and curry leaves to it.
- When the seeds start spluttering, pour the ground mixture. (make sure to keep stirring, so that mixture does not form lumps and more water if needed)
- Once the mixture thickens, add lady’s finger ,turmeric powder and salt to the above and stir it well.
- In a bowl pour the curd and beat well with fork or spoon tills it smooth.
- Now add the hot ladyfinger mixture to the beaten curd little by little and mix well( this avoids the breaking up of curd )
- Now pour the entire mixed ladyfinger curd gravy back to the pan and heat it for another 5-10 mins in medium flame.
- It is ready to be served with rice or rotis.
Benefits of Okra
- Okra has chock-full of nutrients. Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and Vitamin K are plentiful in okra, to name just a few.
- Okra is good in normalizing the blood sugar and cholesterol level.
- It is an ideal vegetable for weight loss as it helps in eliminating toxins and is storehouse of health benefits provided it is cooked over low flame to retain its properties.
- Okra fiber is excellent for feeding the good bacteria (probiotics). This contributes to the health of the intestinal tract.
- Okra is an excellent laxative treats irritable bowels, heals ulcers and sooths the gastrointestinal track.
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