Spiced Okra/Bendekaayi Kaayirasa

I learnt this recipe from my Aunt Sowmya Bhat.

Ingredients:

• 300 gm Chopped(1 inch in length) Okra/ladies fingers/Bendekaayi
• Tamarind medium Lemon size
• 5-6 tsp Jggeri( depending on your taste)
• 4-5 tsp grated Coconut
• Pinch of Asafoetida/Hing
• Pinch of Turmeric powder
• One and a half tsp Urid/black gram dall
• 3/4 tsp Fenugreek/Methi seeds
• 3-4 Red Chiiels or 1 tsp Red Chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
• 1 tsp Oil
• Salt to taste

Method

• Heat the Oil in a pan, add the Mustard seeds,Hing and Turmeric powder.
• Add the chopped Ladies Fingers and saute for 10 min.
• In the mean while soak Tamrind and extract the juice.
• Ater 10 min of sauting add the Tamarind Juice, Jaggery and salt.cook for 5 min.
• Dry roast the Black gram dal, Fenugreek seeds and the Red chillies.( Do not have to roast the Chilli powder if you are using it)
• Grind the roasted spices with coconut and little water and add.
• Cook for 5 min.
• Serve hot with Chapathi or Rice.
  

Banana Hot Buns

Ingridients:

• 4 Large fully ripen Banana
• 4 cups all purpose flour/Maida
• 2 tsp Yogurt
• 1 tsp crushed Cumin
• 5 tsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• salt to taste
• Oil for deep frying

Method:

• Mix all purpose flour, baking Soda, Sugar, Salt,Yogurt and Cumin seeds in a large vessel or bowl.
• Grind Bananas into smooth paste , add to the above mixture and mix well, make into smooth dough.
• Cover the dough with a wet cloth and allow to ferment 5-6 hours or overnight.
  
• Heat the Oil in a pan for deep frying.
• In the mean while make dough into small balls as you do for chapathi and roll into samll thick poories. Deep fry.
• Serve hot with Chatney.

Note: You can make around 15 buns with 4 cups of flour.