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Chettinadu Special Bendakai Mandi | Okra Curry | Bendakaya pulusu | Bhindi | How to Make Okra Curry

Curries | vegetarian

  • Prep Time 5 Mins
  • Cook Time 17 Mins
  • Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 2.5 tbsp
  • 300 gms Ladies Finger
  • Salt- Required
  • 1/2 tsp Mustard
  • Fenugreek - pinch
  • 100 ml Tamarind Juice (Extracted from lemon sized tamarind)
  • 4 Red chillies
  • 6 - 7 Garlic
  • 2 Strands Curry Leaves
  • 10 - 12 Sambar Onions
  • 1/4 cup Chopped Onions
  • 2 Slit Green Chillies
  • 400 ml Water for cleaning Rice

Instructions

  1. Heat some oil in a pan. Fry the Ladies' Fingers pieces, covering them with a lid, till they change color. This will remove the stickiness from them.
  2. Keep them aside after frying.
  3. Roast some Mustard and Fenugreek in the same pan till Fenugreek turns golden brown. Then add Bengal Gram and fry for some more time.
  4. Then add Red Chillies, Garlic, Curry leaves and fry till the garlic becomes golden brown
  5. Add Sambar Onions, Chopped Onions, slit Green chilies and fry till the onions turn golden brown
  6. Add Tamarind water and boil once. Now add fried Ladies' Fingers pieces and cook for 2 minutes.
  7. Add water used to wash rice and cook for 4-5 minutes on a medium flame. Check the Salt and remove it from the fire.
  8. It tastes good with hot Rice.