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| Okra with tomato stir-fry |
Today I am going to make a okra stir-fry with tomato. Some people do not like okra because of its slimy sap. Our aim is to reduce the slime in the okra in our cooking.
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| Ingredients for Okra with tomato stir-fry |
Recipe summary
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Okra with tomato stir - fry
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves: 4
1. In a medium sized frying pan or sauce pan add 2 tablespoon vegetable oil and heat it.
2. When the oil is hot reduce the heat to medium.
Add ½ teaspoon mustard seeds and fry till it splutters.
3. Add ½ spoon cumin seeds and fry for 3 seconds.
4. Add 1 onion chopped coarsely, 1 green chilli sliced into small pieces, 3 cloves garlic chopped, 1 dry red chili ground into broken chili, ½ sprig curry leaves chopped and Fry for 5 minutes.
5. Add 2 tomatoes sliced into ½ inch pieces and ½ cup of water and fry for 5 minutes.
6. Add 200 grams okra sliced into 1 inch pieces and fry for 3 minutes.
7. Add tamarind juice extracted from 20 grams tamarind and cook for 2 minutes.
8. Add ½ teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon pepper and mix well.
Taste for seasoning and adjust.
Okra stir-fry is ready. Take it off the heat.
It can be consumed on its own or served as a side dish with meat or fish. It can also be served with rice and bread.
Okra with tomato stir - fry is ready.
For
Okra with tomato stir - fry
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves: 4
1. In a medium sized frying pan or sauce pan add 2 tablespoon vegetable oil and heat it.
2. When the oil is hot reduce the heat to medium.
Add ½ teaspoon mustard seeds and fry till it splutters.
3. Add ½ spoon cumin seeds and fry for 3 seconds.
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4. Add 1 onion chopped coarsely, 1 green chilli sliced into small pieces, 3 cloves garlic chopped, 1 dry red chili ground into broken chili, ½ sprig curry leaves chopped and Fry for 5 minutes.
5. Add 2 tomatoes sliced into ½ inch pieces and ½ cup of water and fry for 5 minutes.
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| Okra with tomato stir-fry |
7. Add tamarind juice extracted from 20 grams tamarind and cook for 2 minutes.
8. Add ½ teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon pepper and mix well.
Taste for seasoning and adjust.
Okra stir-fry is ready. Take it off the heat.
It can be consumed on its own or served as a side dish with meat or fish. It can also be served with rice and bread.
Okra with tomato stir - fry is ready.
Recipe follows in detail with pictures.
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
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| Onion, green chili and broken chili are fried |
Main
200 grams okra sliced into 1 inch pieces
2 tomatoes sliced into ½ inch pieces
Others
1 onion chopped coarsely
½ sprig curry leaves
3 cloves garlic
1 green chilli sliced into small pieces
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon vegetable oil of your choice
20 grams tamarind – extract the juice
Spices
1 dry red chili ground into broken chili½ teaspoon mustard seeds
½ spoon cumin seeds
½ teaspoon pepper powder
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| Tomato added |
Preparation
Use a kitchen paper towel and wipe out the little white fibrous growth found on the outer skin of the okra. Wash the okra well in running water. Wipe the water with kitchen towel and make it dry.
This process will stop oozing of gummy, gelatinous liquid. Cut the okra into 1/4 inch slices.vegetable.
Wash and cut tomato into ½ inch pieces.
Method
In a medium sized frying pan or sauce pan add oil and heat it.
When the oil is hot reduce the heat to medium.
Add mustard and cumin seeds. When they splutter add onion, green chili, garlic, broken dry chili and curry leaves. Fry for 5 minutes.
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| Okra added |
Add okra and fry for 3 minutes.
Add tamarind juice and cook for 2 minutes.
Add salt and pepper and mix well.
Taste for seasoning and adjust.
Okra stir-fry is ready. Take it off the heat.
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| Okra with tomato stir-fry |
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