BHINDI MASALA DRY / LADIES FINGER STIR FRY




Ingredients

Bhindi/ladies finger/okra - 2 cups cut in to round pieces
Onion - 1 medium 
Tomato - 1 medium
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 teaspoons
Cumin seeds /Jeera - 1/4 teaspoon 
Ajwain - 1 pinch 
Turmeric Powder- 1/4 teaspoons
Corriander powder - 1 teaspoons
Garam masala - 1/4 teaspoons
Chilli powder- 1 teaspoons or to taste
Salt 
Oil - for frying onion and bhindi



Method

Wash, pat dry  and cut bhindi in to small round bite size pieces. Heat 3 to 4 tablespoons oil in a wok/kadai . Fry them till they are completely cooked. Drain them and keep aside . Heat oil in another pan add cumin seed and ajwain when they splutter add ginger garlic paste, chopped onion saute till onions are cooked Now add all the dry powder masalas . Fry till raw smell goes away. Now add chopped tomatoes  and 1/2 cup water , cook uncovered until tomatoes get mushy and water evaporates to form a thick masala. Add salt . Now add the fried bhindi to this. Mix well so that the masala coats bhindi. Serve with hot rotis or rice.