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Serves
3 to 4
Creator Notes
This recipe will show to you that cooked okra is one thing however the sticky, gooey mess that makes it so unpopular. Okra cooked in Gujarati fashion are filled to the hilt with spices and own an al dente chunk to them. Win pleasure from with colossal skinny Gujarati roti. —Annada Rathi
Components
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1/2 cup
peanut powder (60 grams), produced from roasted, unsalted peanuts (scrutinize step 1)
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40 objects
okra (515 grams; put up-smooth: 360 grams)
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2 1/2 tablespoons
vegetable oil
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1/2 teaspoon
dusky mustard seeds
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1/2 teaspoon
cumin seeds
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1/2 teaspoon
ground turmeric
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1/2 cup
frozen grated coconut
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1/4 cup
sesame seeds
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3/4 teaspoon
salt
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1 teaspoon
ground coriander
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1/2 teaspoon
crimson chilli powder
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1/4 teaspoon
ground cuim
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3/4 teaspoon
contemporary lime juice
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Chopped cilantro, for garnish
Directions
- Toast 60 grams peanuts (in a 350° F oven for 5 minutes or on the stovetop) and then grind in a espresso grinder or food processor.
- Super the okra: Within the bargain of off the stems and pointed ends of the okra (I be pleased to eradicate the pointed ends, moreover, on yarn of in the strategy of cooking, the ends cook potential sooner than the well-known pod, making them dry, stringy, and unappetizing). Wipe okra with moist paper towel and leave them to air-dry for half-hour.
- Make a deep prick in the okra lengthwise however attain no longer lunge your total potential thru—you snatch to own the okra to live whole.
- Heat oil in a cast-iron or thick-bottomed pan. Preserve the warmth at medium. After 4 to 5, minutes add mustard and cumin seeds and wait till they attain popping.
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Add turmeric and okra. Trot so that every particular person the okra are coated in the turmeric oil. Continue to hurry for 15 to 20 minute, till okra are well browned.
- Combine your total rest of the ingredients aside from lime juice and cilantro in a miniature bowl and mix well. Add to the okra. By now the okra edges would own obtained a brownish edge.
- Turn the warmth all the manner down to low and cook for one other forty five minutes. Add lime juice, mix well, and switch the warmth off.
- Garnish with cilantro.
To some of us’s frustration, I be pleased to chat about food before cooking, whereas cooking, whereas eating and clearly after eating.