hello namaste salaamwalekum satsriyakaal;
welcome back to another session
with your VahChef at Vahrehvah.com. Today
we're going to make another delicious
okra dish which is called kadai bhendi
why do we call it kadai bhendi see typically
this is cooked in a kadai where the
items are tossed and cooked but when you
go and order dishes in a restaurant
called kadai you know like kadai paneer or
kadai vegetables or kadai there's
always two three ingredients you will
definitely see that is nicely chopped
onions and tomatoes tossed and nicely
cooked too nicely saucy kind of texture
and they always often use kind of
capsicum that is bell pepper that is
green pepper used in this dishes, to
prepare this dish we need okra so what I
did I slightly deep fried this cut okra see the
reason why I cooked is in the kadai
preparation you don't take too long when
you after you add and you don't want
that sticky kind of texture that okra
can provide so just deep-fry your okra
but remember one thing look at my okra
see how green they are don't fry your
okra till they're crispy brown or
anything just cook them to a consistency
where they are nicely green in color and
that is when when you bite into okra in
your kadai bhendi you get nice okra
texture and taste, some chopped tomatoes
I'm using some green and yellow, curry
leaf curry leaf is an optional because
if you go towards north India in some
of the kadai dishes you don't see
curry leaves but you know I have seen
lot of people using curry leaves in kadai
vegetables, ginger garlic paste, sliced
green chilli, chopped onion, chopped
coriander leaves, coriander seeds just
put some coriander seed and
crush them, cumin powder, coriander powder,
cumin seeds, red chilli powder, turmeric
salt, oil, in this preparation I am not
using whole garam masala so I'm going to
use some garam masala powder but if you
want to use whole garam masala you could
use them add some oil into a hot pan add
some cumin seeds just like a half a
teaspoon and your crushed coriander
seeds and immediately just after frying
them for few seconds add chopped onion
I know I got couple of complaints that
I am not showing the right quantity of
the ingredients I went and bought spoons
here measuring spoons so we're going to
try to use the spoon today just add a
pinch of salt, the salt helps in bringing
out the moisture from the onions and
cook them good for this preparation you
don't have to really brown the onions
so what we are going to do we're going
to add turmeric just one-fourth of
turmeric don't add too much 1/4th teaspoon
of turmeric nicely mix, one table spoon
of ginger-garlic paste and this is tough
make sure you cook it for a minute or so
so that the raw flavor of ginger garlic
paste is gone and then add some curry
leaves, your sliced green chili and again
mix it now the green chilies everything
is sauteed at this time what we do is we
add our diced tomatoes I have taken
two medium sized tomatoes and then added
to this we will let this tomatoes cook
meanwhile you can add 2 teaspoons of
coriander powder and the same two
teaspoons of cumin powder and 1
teaspoon of chilli powder,
ok now I'm done with all these
spices just mix it little bit, see one thing
very good about all these kadai vegetables
is the nice colors that you can see
in the cooked vegetable so once
your let your tomatoes kind of get
mashed up not totally mashed up kind of you know
little bit cooked well see now this
tomatoes are slightly mashed up in
everything you don't have to cook this
tomatoes too much and then add your
capsicum bell pepper now just toss them
little bit after you add your green
and yellow pepper you don't want it to
cook it too much because all you want is
the nice peppery flavor get dissolved in
this sauce little bit ok you can see the
nice green and yellow colors of these
vegetables you can sprinkle half of your
coriander let this also get cooked
really nice see one of my favorite kadai
dishes or kadai paneer oh my god if
you cook it really right kadai paneer
is one of the hottest dishes since your
okra is all cooked just add your okra
the fried okra to this and now just mix
it
and just cover it up and leave it like
that in a medium flame for like 4 - 5
minutes and your okra dish will be ready
ha look at this see this is what it is
this particular vegetable when you are
cooking you don't see so much of flavor
but when all these ingredients mix up
and that's when you see really nice
flavor coming out and if you want you
can top it off with slightly garam
masala powder don't add too much I don't
like too much of garam masala
powders in my food and then just mix it
up check this out after a few minutes ahh
my goodness okay look at this your kadai
vegetable is ready haha yeah see that's
one one thing very good about after it
is done you will be able to toss your
vegetable really up ah Wow look at this
kadai vegetables and you know
after you cook for just like five
minutes you steam it so that nice
infusion of flavors take place take a nice
bowl and and then slightly garnish it
with coriander oh my god I want to eat
something with this ok now let's taste
this see I remember one thing you know
when we were little kids in school they used
to say you know lot of kids I think
somebody's parent must have told the kid
doesn't eat okra hey you eat okra
you will be good in your mathematics see
that's how they make kids eat different
kinds of vegetables and wow look at this
my goodness
look at the colors my god nice green,
yellow trust me this is another great
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make this dish how it turned out and
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