Vendakkai Morekulambu

Ingredients
Items	Qnty	Comments
Tender Ladies Finger or Green Okra	15	(tamil:vendakkai)
Coconut shredded	3/4 cup	(tamil:theyngai)
Sour Curd	½ cup	(tamil:pullicha thayir)
Green chillies	5	(tamil:pachaimilagai)
Ginger	½ an inch piece	(tamil:Ingi)
Green Curry Leaves	5 leaves	(tamil:Karuvepilai)
Cummin seeds	1teaspoon	(tamil:seeragam)
Turmeric powder	¼ teaspoon	(tamil manjal thool)
Asafoetida	¼ teaspoon	(tamil:perungayam)
Salt	3/4 teaspoon	Or as required
Oil	5 teaspoons	For frying

Method

1. Grind cummin seeds,chillies,ginger and coconut into a paste in the blender.

2. Beat the curd well and keep it aside.If it is too thick you can add ¼ cup of water.

3. Cut the ladies finger into small pieces about ½ an inch in length.

4. Heat 2 teaspoons of oil in a tawa and fry the ladies finger separately in a low flame.Add ¼ teaspoon of salt to it.Make sure the mushy nature of ladies finger goes off after it is fried up.

5. Transfer it into a dish.

6. Now keep the same tawa and add 3 teaspoons of oil.

7. When the oil gets heated up add mustard seeds,asafoetida and curry leaves in that order.

8. After it splutters add the fried up ladies finger.

9. Put ¼ teaspoon of turmeric powder and turn over with a spatula.

10. Now pour the grinded coconut paste into it and add 1 cup of water.

11. Add ½ teaspoon of salt to the mixture and allow to boil for 10 minutes.

12. Off the stove and allow the mixture to cool down for 30 minutes.

13. Now add the curd and mix it up well.

14. Transfer to a serving dish.

Tips

· If the oakras are small they really taste good.

· Make sure the sticky nature of oakra is gone while frying in the tawa.

· The same recipe can be done with chayote(chow-chow),Ash gourd(Poosanikkai),Ridge gourd(peerkangai).

· For the above vegetables they should be boiled and added to the mixture instead of frying.

· Goes along very well with white rice.