Easy and tasty rice accompaniment using ladies finger is “Bende Saasmi”. Bende Saasmi is one of the tasty ladies finger recipes which we all love at our home. Usually I prepare two side dishes for rice everyday which includes rasam/curry of any vegetable and tambli, saasmi, Kayi rasa, stir fry(palya) or chutney of greens or vegetables. So today let me post bende kayi saasmi. Hope you will try this and enjoy with rice.
Ladies finger recipes-Bendi Saasmi/Bendekai Saasmi
Ingredients
- Ladies finger/Okra/Bende kai- 10 to 12 pieces
- Grated coconut- 6 to 7 tsp
- Red chilly byadagi- 1
- Mustard seeds- 1/4 tsp
- Salt- 3/4 tsp
- Tamarind- Small gooseberry size
- Oil- 3 tsp
Seasoning Ingredients
- Oil- 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Urad dal- 1/2 tsp
- Red chilly- 1
- Curry leaves- few
Instructions
Preparation
- Wash and wipe the ladies finger till dry with clean towel. Otherwise they would become sticky while cutting.Chop them into small pieces.
Method
- Heat pan/kadai adding 3 tea spoon of oil and add chopped ladies finger to it. Fry the chopped ladies finger till brown and crispy.
- Grind grated coconut, mustard seeds, red chilly, tamarind and salt in to fine paste. Add water while grinding to get the consistency of chutney.
- Add the fried bendi pieces to the ground paste from above step. Mix well.
- Now heat seasoning pan adding oil, mustard seeds, urad dal, broken red chilly and curry leaves. Add this to the bende saasmi.
- Now bende saasmi is ready to be served with hot rice.
Note:
- You can replace red chilly with green chilly. It tastes equally good.
- Frying bende till crispy is very important. It gives nice taste.
Meet you all with one more interesting Udupi recipe. Till then bye.
wow this just looks mouth-watering and amazing!