- Servings: 3-4
- Preparation time: 20 minutes.
- Cooking time: 15 minutes.
- Total time: 35 minutes.
Can the Okra(Bhindi/Ladies finger) be prepared without onion and garlic?
Is it easy to Cook? Is it delicious ?
Try my way of cooking…
According to Ayurveda onion and garlic are considered as tamsic food; which produces sedative effects on mind and body, above this it will cause to age faster, brings irritation and anger…
This recipe is for those , who do not want to eat onion and garlic in their meal …
I uploaded some more Bhindi recipes like “Bhindi Curry“,“Bhindi Bharwan”, “Bhindi do Pyaza”and “Bhindi Fry”.
Ingredients:
- Bhindi/Okra (lady finger): 250 gm
- Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon
- Oil: 2 tablespoon
- Salt: 1 teaspoon
- Dry mango powder: 1 teaspoon
- Tomato: one no. (Small)
- Ingredients for stuffing:
- Whole chilli: 2 no.
- Whole coriander: 3 tablespoon
- Chana (chick pea) Dal: 2 tablespoon
- Fenugreek seed: one forth teaspoon
- Asafoetida powder: half teaspoon
- Cumin: half teaspoon
- Black pepper: 10-12 no.
- Mustard seed: half teaspoon)
Preparation:
- Dry roast each and every ingredients for stuffing.
- Grind these and make the fine powder. Now stuffing powder is ready. Keep aside.
- Clean and wash bhindi. Dry them with kitchen towel.
- Trim the both ends of bhindi, and carefully make slit on one side. (Longitudinally)
- Take a bowl, put stuffing powder in it. Add salt, dry mango powder and turmeric powder. Add little water and make thick paste.
- Stuff this masala into the bhindi.
- Cut tomato in eight pieces.
Method:
- Heat 2 tablespoon of oil in a fry pan.
- Add stuffed bhindi in it, and fry on low flame. Cover it.
- Fry until bhindi is done, (About7-10 minutes)
- Add tomato pieces and fry for 2to 3 minutes on high flame.
Stuff bhindi is ready to serve.
Serve hot with rice or roti.
Bharwa bhindi (Stuff lady finger) without onion garlic by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.