LADY'S FINGER CURRY (VENDAKAYA)

Ingredients

1.  Lady’s finger – ½ kg

2.  Small onions -100 gms

3.  Tomato -2 chopped

4.  Ginger- 1 inch

5.  Green chilly - 4 chopped

6.  Coriander pdr -2 tsp

7.   Chilly pdr -2 tsp

8.  Turmeric pdr -1 tsp

9.  Tamarind -1 lemon size

10. Salt

11. Coconut oil

12. Mustard seeds -1tsp

13. Dry red chilly -2

14. Jeera -1tsp

15. Asafoetida -a pinch

16. Coconut -1 cup (grind into fine paste)

17. Curry leaves

Method

1.Cut the lady’s finger and small onions into small pieces. 

2.Heat oil in a pan add items 12-14, sauté, add chopped ginger, green chillies, lady’s finger and small onions and sauté till it becomes soft. 

3.To the above add the powders 6-8 and sauté till raw smell goes. Then add the chopped tomatoes and salt, when the tomatoes are done add the tamarind water (soaked in 3 cups of water) and boil for few mts. Finally add the coconut paste, curry leaves and salt if needed. 

4.Serve hot with rice.