Healthy Food Recipes - Lady’s Finger (Okra) Curry
Posted on: 08/Mar/2015 10:43:58 AM
Ingredients:
- Lady’s Finger – 250 grams
- Onion- 1 no
- Red chilli – 2 nos
- Urad dal – 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp
- Curry Leaves – a few
- Cooking oil – 3 tbsp.
- Curd – 3tbsp.
- Salt - as required
Method of Preparation:
- Wash lady finger thoroughly in water and wipe it using a cotton cloth.
- Cut lady finger into small thin rounds.
- Finely chop onion.
- Heat a heavy bottomed pan with 3 spoons of oil.
- Add mustard seeds, once it splutters add urad dal. Once it turns brown add splinted red chilli, chopped onion and curry leaves. Saute it well until onion turns golden brown.
- Then add the chopped lady’s finger and stir well in oil for about 2 minutes.
- Once you feel like, lady finger got half the way cooked, add salt to taste and stir well.
- Keep on stirring well for about 5 minutes and close the lid.
- As we are not going to add water, keep on stirring now and then.
- Now open the lid and add curd and mix well.
- Keep continue stirring for 2 to 3 minutes without breaching the lady’s finger pieces carefully.
- If you want your dish to be spicier, add the required quantity of pepper powder and stir well.
- Switch off the flame and transfer it to a serving bowl.
- Tangy Lady Finger Curry is ready to serve with rice!
Tips:
- Prepare pepper powder and store it in an air tight container. Whenever you feel like your dishes to be spicier, you can add a spoon or more pepper powder in any kind of dish.
- We want to prepare dishes less spicy for kids and comparatively more for others in our family. In that case pepper powder will help us a lot.
- Before adding salt to the lady finger, saute the lady finger pieces well in oil for about 2 to 3 minutes. Once it gets cooked well in oil, then add salt, else lady finger will become very sticky.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
