Pakistani
Bhindi ki Sabzi (Dry Okra)
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Bhindi ki Sabzi (Dry Okra) is Pakistani home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable and the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Wash the okra and dry every pod completely with a cloth, then trim and slice into thick rounds. Any water left on the pods makes the dish slimy.
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Heat the oil in a wide pan and fry the okra alone over high heat for 8 minutes without stirring too often, until the edges brown and the stickiness has cooked away. Lift it out.
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In the same pan fry the sliced onion until golden, about 6 minutes.
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Add the chopped tomato, turmeric, red chili powder, coriander powder, cumin and salt and cook 4 minutes until the oil separates.
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Return the okra, fold it in gently, and cook uncovered 6 minutes so it stays dry and separate.
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Finish with amchur, slit green chilies and coriander leaves. Serve as the second dish beside a daal or a salan.
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Serve it with
A Pakistani dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Bhindi ki Sabzi (Dry Okra), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Bhindi ki Sabzi (Dry Okra) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 200 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 15 g
- Fat
- 14 g
- Fiber
- 6 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 580 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Bhindi ki Sabzi (Dry Okra) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer and the monsoon, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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