STUFFED BHENDI| BHARWAN(BHARLI)BHINDI|STUFFED LADYSFINGER

In my home bhindi is liked by my husband but disliked by me.Whenever he gets bhindi I try to search an interesting recipe of bhindi as I dont like to eat normal bhendichya kachrya.This search led me to this superb recipe  (source nishamadhulika)which I have fallen in love with. You can store and consume stuffed recipes for 2-3 days as they don't get stale in few hours. My hubby too  liked the Stuffed Ladyfinger (Bhindi) . We can make Stuffed Ladyfinger in many ways. The stuffing to fill the vegetable can be made with simple masala, add gram flour into the masala, mix potatoes or paneer in to the masala or fry the onions and garlic and mix them with the masala. But today we will make Stuffed Ladyfinger by mixing gram flour with the masala.
 

Ingredients :

Ladyfinger - 250 gms. (medium sized, smooth ladyfingers)
Gram flour - 1 table spoon.
Oil - 3 table spoon.
Fennel (badishep) powder - 2 tea spoon.
Coriander powder - 2 tea spoon.
Red Chilli powder - 1/2 tea spoon.
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tea spoon.
Amchoor powder - 1/2 tea spoon.
Garam Masala - less than 1/4 tea spoon.
Heeng (asafoetida) - 1 pinch.
Cumin seeds (jeera) - 1/4 tea spoon.
Salt - 3/4 tea spoon (according to the taste)

Method :

1.Wash the ladyfinger and strain the water. Place them on a dry towel .
2.Cut the stem of the ladyfinger and part it in a way that it joins from the one corner.

3.Take out all the spices in a plate leaving heeng and gram flour. Mix all the spices well.
4. Heat 1 table spoon oil in a small pan and temper the heeng and cumin seeds. Add gram flour and roast it well into the pan. Put all the spices kept in a plate in this masala and mix them well. Fry the masala for 1 minute and turn off the flame. Masala to stuff the lady finger is ready.
5.Stuff this masala into the ladyfingers. Make sure that the masala is stuffed equally in all the lady fingers.

 

6.Heat 2 table spoon oil in the pan and put the stuffed lady fingers into the it. Stir the recipe with light hands 2-3 times and cook it covered for 5 minutes on a medium flame. Open the lid and flip the sides of the ladyfingers. Cook it for an another 2-3 minutes with covered lid on a low flame. Open the lid, flip the recipe and cook it for 2-3 minutes on high flame.


7.Your Stuffed Ladyfinger is ready. Serve it with hot paranthas, chapatis and naan.