Okra in Smokey BBQ Sauce

Ingredients:

• 700 gm. fresh or frozen Okra (bhindi/ladies finger)
• 1 tsp. mustard seeds
• cumin seeds
• 1 fist onions cut into small cubes
• 1 fist fresh/dry curry leaves/kadi patta
• 3 tbsp. tomato cut into small pieces
• ¼ tsp. turmeric powder
• 1 tsp. bafat powder**
• 1 tsp. crushed garlic
• 1 tbsp. smokey BBQ sauce
• 3 tbsp. grapeseed or sunflower oil
• Salt to taste

Direction for cooking Okra:

1. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seed and when it has spluttered, add cumin seed and curry leaves;
2. Now add onions and cook till it softens a little **;
3. Sauté garlic and add tomatoes**;
4. When the tomatoes has melted, add turmeric and bafat powder and mix all ingredients well;
5. Add Okra and cook till it has softened or as desired;
6. Next add the smokey BBQ sauce and sauté for 2 minutes and remove from stove;
7. Your dish is now ready for serving.

Enjoy !!!

** Notes:

• You can substitute bafat powder with any chili powder;
• Fresh curry leaves are best but if its not easily available then you can use dry curry leaves;
• The onions should not be cooked too much but enough to be a little soft but still crunchy;
• If you like onions to be softer then cook till it is soft as per your requirements;
• If you add a little salt to the tomatoes it will melt faster. Be careful not to add too much salt but just as per your taste.
• BBQ sauce is added to remove the sliminess of Okra. If you don’t have BBQ sauce then you can use fresh lemon juice but the taste will be different.

Measurement:

• gm -> grams
• tsp -> teaspoon
• tbsp -> tablespoon