BHARWAN BHINDI / STUFFED OKRA
Author: Suganya Hariharan
Recipe type: Side dish
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
- Small okra/bhindi - 300gms
- Oil- 2 tbsp
- Asafetid /hing - ¼ tsp To Saute & grind
- Grated fresh/desiccated coconut - 3tbsp
- Peanuts - 2 tbsp
- White sesame seeds - ½ tbsp
- Red chili – 2
- Coriander seeds – 1 tbspTo mix:
- Besan flour – 3 tbsp
- Sambhar powder - 1 tbsp
- Coriander powder - 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
- Dry mango powder/amchur - 1tsp
- Ginger garlic paste – 1tsp
- Salt - to taste
- Sugar - ½tsp
Instructions
- Wash okra well and pat dry. Cut both ends of okra and make a slit in center along the length of okra. Keep it aside.
- In a pan, add the "to sauté & grind" ingredients and dry roast. Now blend them nicely.
- Mix the blended mixture with besan flour, sambhar powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, dry mango powder,ginger garlic paste,sugar and salt.
- Add some little oil/salt to make the blended mixture a paste. Add little less salt as we are going to sprinkle salt at the end.
- Stuff each of the okra with prepared mixture and keep aside.
- Heat oil in pan and add asafoetida, then stuffed okra. Keep the okras in the pan so that the masalas are upwards as this way the masalas stay inside okra.
- Cover with a lid and cook them on a low flame. Turn them occasionally to cook evenly from all sides and also to turn it soft.
- Sprinkle two times little water to make it get cooked and this will shallow fry the okras.
- And sprinkle 1 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of sugar in the middle of the process for the okras to have
- Switch off. It took around fifteen minutes for me.
Notes
1. Make sure you don’t add water.
2. I used nonstick pan, so that it does not stick anywhere easily. ☺ Otherwise, stir it once in a while.
3. For this recipe, try to use tender okra.
4. If you want the process to be even simpler, just stuff with sambhar powder, besan flour mix. You can add idli gunpowder, chilli powder, it still gives good taste.
5. Try to use a bigger pan so that u can turn it in the middle.
2. I used nonstick pan, so that it does not stick anywhere easily. ☺ Otherwise, stir it once in a while.
3. For this recipe, try to use tender okra.
4. If you want the process to be even simpler, just stuff with sambhar powder, besan flour mix. You can add idli gunpowder, chilli powder, it still gives good taste.
5. Try to use a bigger pan so that u can turn it in the middle.
Recipe by Relish The Bite at https://www.relishthebite.com/bharwan-bhindi-stuffed-okra/