bhindi tambuli recipe | bhindi raita recipe | okra raita
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 5 minutes
- Total time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 2 Servings
- Category: side
- Cuisine: south indian
Ingredients
- 5 - 6 medium sized okra / bhindi
- 1 cup yogurt / curd
- salt as required
- 2 tbsp oil
seasoning:
- 1 tsp ghee / coconut oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- pinch asafoetida/hing
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 1 - 2 red chilli
Method
- rinse the bhindi / okra in water well if it is too dirty. and wipe the bhindi off. else it will be sticky when you chop.
- chop them into thin slices and keep aside. make sure there isn't trace of water on your chopping board or on knife.
- heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan and fry till they turn crispy and golden brown.
- stir occasionally so as to uniformly fry. drain the fried bhindi on tissue paper.
- now whisk the curd. make sure you have taken thick curd and it is not sour.
- time to prepare tempering; heat the ghee add in mustard seeds, hing, cumin seeds and red chilli. fry till they splutter.
- pour the tempering over whisked curd.
- add in fried okras over the raita. serve bhindi raita immediately with plain rice or with dal -rice, veg pulao, bisi bele bath.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.