BHINDI/OKRA MASALA

Bhindi/Okra/Vendakkai..however you may call...is replete with fiber, which controls blood sugar levels. It has good folate contents, full of Vitamin K, which helps in blood-clotting process, prevents and controls asthma, prevents constipation, sun stroke and colon cancer, controls cholesterol level and obesity, prevents kidney diseases and helps digestion, is a very good source of anti oxidants and is also very good for skin and hair.
Please refer to my Glossary for any unknown terms

Ingredients

Okra/bhindi - 1/4 kg, washed and wiped, and chopped, not too thin

Onion -1, chopped fine

Tomatoes - 2, chopped fine

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Jeera - 1 tsp

Cooking oil - 4 tbsps

Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Jeera/cumin powder - 1/2 tsp

Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp

Kitchen king masala powder - 3/4 tsp

Kasuri methi - 1 tsp, crushed

Salt to taste

Recipe Cuisine: North Indian; Category: Lunch/Dinner

Prep time: 10 mts; Cooking time: 20 mts

Serves 2

Okras washed and drained and then wiped without any trace of water

All veggies chopped and kept ready

Take a broad non stick pan, add 2 tbsp oil, season turmeric powder and jeera

then add the cut okras/bhindis. Flames on the lowest, let the bhindis become golden and crisp.

Simultaneously, take another non stick pan, add the rest of the oil and add the onions.

After the onions become translucent, add the tomatoes

Add chilli, jeera and coriander powders, also the crushed kasuri methi, and keep on sauteeing

After the tomatoes become somewhat mushy, add the kitchen king masala powder

Add salt to taste

Add 2-3 tbsps water, so that this will become a nice gravy

By now, the bhindis would have become nice and crispy.

Add the roasted bhindis to the tomato-onion gravy.

and mix well

Switch off.

Serve hot  with soft  phulkas

This post first appeared in www.malpatskitchen.com

Notes

* I am using Kitchen King Masala for the first time. Recently a chef in a restaurant in Shirdi told me about this. I really like this, and feel, this is more flavorful than garam masala. 

* Okras/bhindis can be cut into slightly longer pieces also

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