Today’s recipe is a simple and tasty okra dish. For a slightly different version, try okra stir fry.

Vendikkai Varai/ Okra fry

Cooking time: 15 mins

Serves 3 – 4

Ingredients:

• Okra/ Vendikkai – 1 cup
• Onion – 1
• Malu miris/ banana pepper – 1
• Curry leaves – 1 sprig
• Lime juice – 1 tbsp
• Crushed chillies – 1 tsp
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• Sesame oil – 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Clean the okra and finely chop them. Add some lime juice and salt to the okra and keep aside.
2. Finely chop the onion, malu miris and curry leaves and fry them for about 5 mins in a tbsp of sesame oil.
3. Add the finely chopped and seasoned okra slices to the frying pan and continue frying for about 10 mins over medium heat.
4. Towards the end, add salt and pepper and optionally crushed chillies.
5. Serve with rice.

Recipe source: Raji Thillainathan.