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Bendakaya Pulusu Recipe.

Ingredients:

Ingredients for bendakaya pulusu
250 grams bendakayalu (okra, ladies finger)
1 sprig curry leaves
pinch menthulu (methi seeds or fenugreek seeds)
2 large onions chopped
1 green chili slit (optional)
2 small tomatoes or 1 large tomato (optional)
2 potatoes cubed (optional)
2 tbsp tamarind as needed (about a lemon sized ball)
1/8 tsp turmeric
salt as needed
1/2 to 1 tsp coriander powder
1/4 to 1/2 tsp red chili powder
1 to 2 tbsp jaggery (optional)
handful coriander leaves
2 tbsp oil or as needed

Recipe Instructions:

For bendakaya pulusu
rinse and soak tamarind in 1/2 cup hot water.
Once cool, squeeze up and filter to remove the pulp.
Chop onions set aside.
Rinse ladies finger under running water.
Wipe them dry with a clean kitchen cloth.
Chop them to 1 inch sized pieces.
You can use a kitchen tissue in between to wipe off the sticky part from the knife.
Chop tomatoes and set aside.
Making bendakaya pulusu
heat a pan with oil, add mustard and menthulu.
When they begin to crackle, add curry leaves and fry till they turn crisp.
Add onions and green chilies.
You can also skip green chilies.
Fry till the onions turn transparent.
You don??t need to fry till golden.
Add tomatoes, turmeric and salt.
Fry till the tomatoes turn completely mushy.
This is very important otherwise the pulusu doesn??t taste good.
Transfer ladies finger and potatoes.
Then fry on high for 2 to 3 minutes.
Add red chili powder, coriander powder and a little more of the salt.
Mix and fry for another 2 minutes
pour the tamarind water and then add jaggery.
You can also dissolve the jaggery along with tamarind and fliter both to the pot.
Mix well
cover and cook for about 3 to 4 minutes on a low flame or heat.
Pour 1 1/2 to 2 cups water and cook on a low flame till the ladies finger is cooked well soft and tender.
If it is too runny, evaporate the excess water by cooking further without a lid.
Taste the pulusu and add more salt, tamarind water and jaggery if needed.
It should typically have different tastes like sweet, sour and hot.
Serve bendakaya pulusu with rice and plain pappu or mudda pappu.

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