Bendekai palya recipe | How to make lady's finger stir fry | Bhindi dry sabzi | Ladies finger palya
By Latha on October 5th, 2017
Bendekai palya or bhindi stir fry recipe explained with step by step pictures. Bendekai palya or bhindi sabzi is prepared using ladies finger, onion, garlic, green chili, red chili and curd. Bendekai palya or bhindi sabzi goes very well with rice or chapathi. This is a very healthy stir fry recipe.
If you are looking for more Ladies finger recipes, then do check our bendekayi palya(ladies finger stir fry), bendekayi hasi kayirasa, bendekayi kayirasa and Bendekayi sambar recipes.
This recipe is similar to Andhra style Lady's finger fry. I have used garlic in this recipe, which you can replace it with asafoetida. I have also used curd in this recipe and that can be replaced by lemon juice.
You can find many palya or stir fry recipes on this website like gorikai or cluster beans palya, bendekayi or ladies finger palya, bittergourd sweet curry, thondekai palya, Mixed vegetable palya, beans palya, badanekayi palya, Hagalakayi palya, Boodu kumbalakai or ash gourd palya and north karnataka special zunka vadi recipes.
Or if you are looking for more Karnataka style curry recipes then do visit our curries section.
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 2
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/4 kg bendekai or lady's finger
- 2 - 3 tbsp cooking oil
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 red chili
- 1 - 2 green chili
- 4-5 curry leaves
- 2 - 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 medium sized onion
- A big pinch of turmeric powder
- 2 tbsp curd or 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Salt as per your taste
Instructions for making bendekai palya or bhindi stir fry:
- Wash, pat dry and chop the ladies finger by discarding the ends. Also chop garlic and onion.
- Next take oil in a frying pan and heat it. Add in 1/2 tsp mustard seeds and 1/2 tsp cumin seeds.
- When the mustard seeds splutters and in broken red chili.
- Immediately add in slit green chili, chopped garlic and curry leaves.
- Followed by add in chopped onion.
- Fry until onion turns translucent.
- Add in chopped ladies finger. Stir for 2 minutes under high flame.
- Reduce the flame. Add in turmeric powder and curd.
- Give a quick mix and close the lid. Cook the ladies finger under low flame.
- Stir in between and cook until soft under low flame.
- At the end sprinkle the salt and give a quick mix. Serve it with hot rice or chapathi.
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