Vendaikai (Okra) Besan Tawa Fry is a crisp, flavorful okra dish made with simple pantry spices. Besan and rice flour create a light coating without deep-frying. Onions, curry leaves, and warm spices add flavor. Serve it as an easy side dish with rice and dal.
Sliced okra is coated with besan, rice flour, chilli powder, turmeric, cumin, and salt, using its natural moisture to bind the coating. A little water is added only if needed. The coated okra is cooked on a tawa with mustard, urad dal, asafoetida, onion, and curry leaves, spread in a single layer and stirred occasionally over low heat until crisp.
Vendaikai (Okra) Besan Tawa Fry Recipe
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Vendaikai (Okra) Besan Tawa Fry
Vendaikai (Okra) Besan Tawa Fry coats okra with besan, rice flour, and spices, then cooks it on a tawa with onion and curry leaves until crisp.
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servings10
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minutesIngredients
Vendaikai (Okra) – 10 or 15
Besan flour – 2 tablespoon
Rice flour – 1 teaspoon
Chilli powder – ½ teaspoon
Turmeric powder – a pinch
Jeera Powder – ½ teaspoon
Onion chopped – 2 tablespoons
Oil – 1 or 2 tablespoons
Mustard – 1/2 Teaspoon
Urad Dal – 1 Teaspoon
Asafoetida Powder – 2 Pinches
Curry Leaves – Few
Salt – 1/2 Teaspoon Or As Per Taste
Directions
- Cut the Vendaikai (Okra) into small round pieces.
- Put these pieces in a broad plate.
- Sprinkle besan, rice flour, chilli powder, turmeric, jeera powder and salt. Gently mix it. No need to add any water. The stickiness in the okra will bind the flours. If you find it too dry, then just sprinkle one or two teaspoons of water and mix it.
- In a flat tawa put one or two teaspoons of oil. When it is hot add mustard and when it starts crackling add urad dal, asafoetida powder and fry till the dal turns light brown.
- Add chopped onion and curry Leaves and sauté till the onion becomes translucent.
- Add the marinated okra pieces and mix well. Spread it in a single layer and cook on low flame stirring now and then till it is crisp.
Notes
- For quick version, just add 2 tablespoons of Instant Bonda/Bajji Mix Powder to okra pieces and fry as above.