The month of April is extra-special! It is my birthday month! This week is my birthday-week! Guess how I am celebrating??
I am going away on a vacation next week since we are having Spring Break! Yay!! I am also celebrating my birthday by starting " the guest post series" which I have been planning for a while now! I am so happy that it is finally coming to fruition! As part of this series, you will be seeing healthy, quick and easy recipes from a variety of food bloggers: some new and some who are already established! It is going to be a nice mix! The guest post will be featured every Friday of the month. They will be accompanying me to many parties! It is going to be so much fun!! I am so excited!!
If you are interested in writing a guest post for my blog: Su's Healthy Living, please reach out to me at sushealthyliving@gmail.com. The criteria for the recipe is that it has to be healthy, quick and easy to make!! That's not too much to ask is it??;)
I am beginning this series with a guest post from a very good friend from the blogging world: Sushma Mallya! She blogs from Authentic Food Delights. She is one of the nicest, unassuming people that I have met in the blogging world. Believe it or not she has had her blog for 8 years now! Way before all the rat race that is going on today! She is a mother of two beautiful boys. Her blog started as a way to document all the recipes that she learnt from her mother, mother-in-law and friends. When she is not churning up delicious dishes in her kitchen, she immerses herself in her other passion, which is painting and sketching! Her creativity and artistry is evident in her food photography! Her blog has a myriad of recipes, mostly traditional Konkani recipes and a few fusion recipes. She has been residing in UK for the past 13 years. Do check out her blog Authentic Food Delights for more amazing recipes.
Today she is sharing with us a recipe that she learnt from her mother: Benda Sasam ( crispy okra in a yogurt-based sauce). This is a very quick and easy recipe that is healthy too! This dish brings along a variety of textures and flavors with crispy okra in a delicious spiced yogurt sauce.
Servings: 3-4 people
Ingredients
10-12 ladies finger (bhindi) (cut into thin slices )
2 tbsp cooking oil
For Masala
1/2 cup freshly grated coconut
1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
3-4 green chilli (adjust according to your spice level)
1/4 cup Thick curd /yogurt
salt to taste
For tempering /tadka
1 tsp ghee + 1 tbsp oil
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
1/4 tsp Jeera
1/4 tsp urad dal
1 red chilli broken into bits
1 sprig of curry leaves
Method
- Wash Bhindi and pat it dry . Cut Bhindi into thin slices and keep aside. Then take a non stick pan add oil then add ladies finger and fry till v crisp on a low heat and keep aside. ( This can be made well ahead of time and mixed at the time of serving).
- Grind coconut, green chilles, mustard seeds, yogurt and grind to a fine paste. Add water to thin it to the desired consistency.
- Take it out in a container. keep aside.
- Now Prepare the tadka ; Heat a non stick pan add in ghee and little oil then add in mustard seeds. Jeera, Urad dal, when it starts spluttering add red chilli, fry add in curry leaves.
- Pour this tempering /tadka over the ground paste (NOTE: There is no heating in this type of curry ).
- Add in fried bhindi at the time of serving (so that it stays crisp). Then serve it Garnished with finely chopped coriander leaves . Done it's awesome with Rice ...YUMM !
I am bringing this lovely dish of Sushma's for all my friends to try, at Throwback Thursday#35, Fiesta Friday#116 and Saucy Saturdays! Angie's co-hosts this week are Judi @ cookingwithauntjuju and Cynthia @ eatmunchlove.
