Kitchen Tantra

Vendaikkai Thayir Pachadi:

Fried Okra in Yogurts. Fried Lady's Finger Raita. Bindi Pachadi. Bendakai Perugu Pachadi.

Ingredients:

Okra/lady's finger - 200 grams
Yogurts 2-3 cups
Oil for deep frying.

To Wet-Grind These:

Fresh grated coconut 1/2 cup
Green chilies 2
Salt
Yogurts 1/4 cup.

For Tempering:

Oil few spoons
Mustard seeds 1/2 spoon
Cumin seeds 1/4 spoon
Asafoetida 1/4 spoon
Urad dal 1/2 spoon
Curry leaves few.

Method:

Wash and pat dry okra. Trim their ends. Then finely chop them. Set aside.

Heat oil in a deep frying pan. When the oil is smoky hot....fry few chopped okras in it. Maintaint he stove over medium-high heat. Fry them real crisp.

Fry little in each batch. Maybe till they turnt o dark brown and crispy enough.

Leave these fried okras over kitchen tissue for some time.

Now wet grind coconut, green chili with salt and 1/4 cup of curd.

Mix fried okra and wet-ground above paste in yogurd. Mix them well.

In a shallow frying pan...heat oil and add sesonning items and fry them.

Then run this above sesonning over mixed okra-yogurd set-up.

Serve chillied or at room temeprature as a side dish.

Than usual fried okra or regular pachadis....this is differnet! I prefer to have this chilled. Its very refreshing treat. Though its fried it wont give the appearance or feel heavy here! Give a try sometime!

Labels: Okra, Salad/Pachadi