April 12, 2008

Sauté Okra season with Dried Mango Powder.

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Okra is kind of sexy vegetable to me, fresh greeny looking and svelte in shape, I am sure the way I described as sexy veggie is accurate accordingly, ha ha..
Some other peoples also named it as “Lady’s Finger”, to me it sounds fabulous too as the veggie it self are really pretty in colour and form.




Saute Ladies Finger season with dry mango powder-3


Here (in Goa) where I am at now, most of peoples call as “Bhindi” which is in Hindi, my first impressions was first-class treatment *by mean I do enjoy the colour and shape as great combinations, to be honest at my first glimps to those pretty looking veggies don't really know how the taste was neither the texture.

To get to know what it is, I have to come closer personally-buying those sexy looking veggie and cooking them perhaps in my way or typical Indian curry even my mother-in- law way which is typical Baba’s curry.



At my first cooking method of “Okras” to be our main dish as lunch was using my mother-in-law recipe by combining garlic paste, ginger paste, pinch of cumin seeds, green chillies, curry leaf and ready made Baba’s curry powder which is the most important ingredient I ever know as my preferred curry powder at the moment (being realistic that I am poor in Indian foods). 



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It was a good collide among the ingredients it self, you would not believe that I fond to it and my hubby either even it has slightly slimy in feel but I had learn how to abridge the feel, oh!! How glad I was…

I had cook recently and created a slightly different kind of method though simple on purpose for
Weekend Herbs Blogging is a food blog event sponsored by Kalyn’s Kitchen and for this week host by Jugalbandi.
My way of cooking this time is totally transform to a kind of Sauté all the ingredients, by having it as side dish besides your curry and plain fresh cooked basmati rice is another appetizing indulgence.



Sauté Okra season with Dry Mango Powder

Ingredients

6-7 pieces Okras, cut into an equal form
2-3 green chillies, finely chopped
1 cloves garlic-chopped
½ teaspoon chilli powder to coloured
1 teaspoon dry mango powder
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Pinch of cumin seeds
Sea salt to taste

Method

Heat the oil in the frying pan over medium fire, add chopped garlic, finely copped green chillies and pinch of cumin seeds, stir fry until aromatic about 1 to 2 minutes.
Add cut Okras, keep stirring until quite soft but not too cooked to retain the crunchiness texture.

Add chilli powder to give nice colour then season with sea salt and dry mango powder then give it a quick stir about 30 seconds.
Remove from the pan then transfers into a serving plate.

18 comments:

bee said...REPLAY

thank you, dear ira. your pics are gorgeous, as always.

elsye said...REPLAY

dry mango powder ? kayak gimana ra penampakannya

okra sendiri aku belum pernah makan..:P, kayak pare ?

busylittlebee said...REPLAY

Blushing...

Thanks bee, your comment is a great copliments to my work.
I do appreciate

busylittlebee said...REPLAY

elsye, Dry mango powder is common in light brown colour it has of course sourish taste, here retail in the box, perhaps you can get at cold storage-sometimes comes in the tiny cutie bottle.

bisa buat gantinya asam els, kadang asam kan suka belepotan tuh nah krn dr mango ini berupa powder jd agak rapi kalau buat seasoning.

Okra has crunchy in texture and little bit slimy (berlendir) in feel (nggak pahit)

Arfi Binsted said...REPLAY

i haven't tried okra yet. sometimes i can find them at the farmers' market but i haven't got a clue how to do them. now i do hehehe :D

busylittlebee said...REPLAY

I hope you like it arfi.
I used to add into my egg curry too or even making as vegetarian style okra curry.

noobcook said...REPLAY

I love your food photography :)

I love okra and this is such a wonderful way of cooking it! I also learnt about dry mango powder for the first time today ;)

busylittlebee said...REPLAY

thanks for your appresiation to my food photography.

I love dry mango powder as neath seasonings to a particular way of cooking such a saute

Kalyn said...REPLAY

Your photos are just wonderful. This sounds intriguing; it's the first time I've heard of dry mango powder, and I love hearing about new things.

busylittlebee said...REPLAY

Thanks kalyn.

You might give it a try one day, its really thrilling seasonings and give your food extraodinary taste either. wink

Susan from Food Blogga said...REPLAY

Hello Ira,
When I saw your entry on Bee's site, I had to come meet the person who described okra as "sexy." In the States, most people consider okra, humble, sort of country-style food, but I like your description much better. :) Yours photos are simply beautiful.
Cheers, Susan

busylittlebee said...REPLAY

hi susan,
apparently those sexy okra was impress you and me as well, he he

thanks for your comments- its great compliments to me.

maninas said...REPLAY

WOW - your photos are amazing. Light, but elegant. Simple, but imaginative.

busylittlebee said...REPLAY

maninas,
Your kind discribable was honestly making me blushing...

Thank you dear

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