KADAI BHENDI | KADAI BHINDI RECIPE

                      I learnt this recipe from Vah chef’s video and tried this for first time, the outcome was very nice. I made one or two changes to suit my taste . The main draw back is,too much usage of oil!! Though I tried to use less than I saw in the video,deep frying the Bhendi is too much for me. One can just fry with less oil in kadai itself,but deep frying really made its stickiness  Zero. Its your choice! Goes well with roties and variety rice too!

Ingredients:

Bhendi/ladies finger/vendaikai	20-25 nos
Onion	2 medium sized,chopped
Tomato	2 big sized,chopped
Capsicum	1 big sized,cubed
Ginger garlic paste	2 tsp
Turmeric	1/ 4 tsp
Dhaniya powder/coriander powder	3 tsp
Red chili powder	1 tsp
Garam masala powder (optional)	1/2 tsp
Green chilies	2-4 nos.
Cashewnut	10- 12 nos..,grind to paste
Chopped coriander leaves	1/4 cup
Curry leaves(optional)	A sprig
Coriander seeds (crushed coarsely)	1 tsp
Salt	as needed

To Temper:

Whole garam masala (optional)	As needed
Jeera	2 tsp
Oil	3 tblsp (or as  per ur wish)

Method:

1. Wash,clean the ladies fingers and pat dry and cut them into bite size pieces.
2. Deep fry them in oil,if desired, or fry them with little oil in a kadai, without changing the green of the vegetable,but the stickiness should not be there.
3. Heat a broad pan with oil,add the tempering items,followed by the crushed coriander seeds.
4. Immediately add the onions and fry till just transparent.
5. Add ginger garlic paste and fry till raw smell goes off.
6. Add the chopped tomatoes,with little salt to make it get soft faster.
7. Add turmeric,garam masala ,red chili and coriander powders and mix well and fry till tomatoes gets mashed up.
8. Add then add cashew nut paste and fry for a min till oil separates.
9. Add the capsicum and fry in medium flame for a minute.
10. Add the deep fried ladies fingers and salt if needed and sprinkle little water or as the way you want,if you want a gravy kind,add more water or milk and if you want semi dry,just sprinkle little water.
11. Just cook for 2 minutes in medium flame and stir well and cook covered again for another 2 mins.
12. And finally add more coriander leaves to garnish( I dint had sadly,so I dint add,dont search in the pics)!!.Serve hot to taste the best,with roties or with pulav of your choice!!

Notes:

You can omit cashew paste if you want it simple and dry. If you need more of gravy kind then refer  point no.10. Add Kasoori methi if you like.