Indian Okra Curry Made In Buttermilk

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 450 ml buttermilk
• 2 tablespoons gram flour
• 1 tablespoon oats, dry roasted and ground to a powder
• 4 green chilies, washed,ends trimmed and chopped
• 1 inch ginger
• 4 teaspoons coriander powder
• 2 teaspoons cumin powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons turmeric powder
• 2 tablespoons coriander leaves, washed and chopped
• 400 g okra (known as "bhindi" in hindi)
• salt
• 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 4 tablespoons ghee or 4 tablespoons oil

Recipe

• 1 put 6 tbsps. of buttermilk in a cup.
• 2 add gramflour and the ground oats.
• 3 stir to make a paste.
• 4 add the remaining buttermilk, green chillies, ginger, corriander, cumin, turmeric, red chilli powder, fresh corriander and salt to taste.
• 5 heat on low flame.
• 6 cook till the mixture thickens.
• 7 wash okra under running water.
• 8 trim off the top and tail of each piece of okra.
• 9 add salt and red chilli powder (to taste).
• 10 heat oil/ghee in a skillet.
• 11 saute the okra in it.
• 12 add the fried okra to the buttermilk curry.
• 13 cook for 10 minutes.
• 14 temper the curry with mustard seeds spluttered in hot ghee/oil.
• 15 serve hot with rice.