How many of you guys here really, really enjoy cooking and planning meals?

[IslandTractor]

Here is a Bhindi masala (ocra with spice mix) recipe I tried. Very good and definitely different. You can vary the heat if you like by adding chopped hot peppers to the sauté.


bhindi masala - a semi dry lightly spiced north indian curry made with okra.
AUTHOR: dassana
RECIPE TYPE: side
CUISINE: north indian
SERVES: 3-4 servings
INGREDIENTS (measuring cup used, 1 cup = 250 ml)
200-250 gms bhindi/okra
1 medium size onion, chopped
2 medium size tomatoes, chopped
½ inch ginger and 2-3 garlic, crushed or made to a paste in a mortar-pestle or ½ or ¾ ginger-garlic paste
1 tsp coriander powder/dhania powder
¼ or ½ tsp red chili powder/lal mirch powder
½ tsp turmeric powder/haldi
½ tsp punjabi garam masala powder or any good garam masala powder
½ tsp amchur powder/dry mango powder
salt as required
2 tbsp oil for frying the bhindi
1 tbsp oil for frying the onion-tomato masala
1 tsp kasuri methi/dry fenugreek leaves crushed (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
rinse the bhindi/okra well in water. dry them on a large plate on their own or wipe with a kitchen towel.
remove the base and stalk while chopping the bhindi. chop into 1 or 2 inch pieces.
heat 2 tbsp oil in a kadai/wok or pan.
add the bhindi and saute till they are completely cooked. you will have to keep an eye on them and stir in between many times.
taste the bhindi and if the crunchiness has gone and the bhindi have become soft, it means they are cooked. keep the sauteed bhindi aside.
all the oil will be used up. so add 1 tbsp oil to the same pan.
add chopped onions and fry till they become translucent.
add the ginger-garlic paste and saute for ½ a minute or till the raw aroma of the ginger-garlic disappears.
add the chopped tomatoes and saute till the tomatoes are soft and mushy.
if the tomato mixture becomes too dry add about ¼ or ½ cup water and continue to cook.
all the above cooking is done in a open pan and you don't need to cover the pan with the lid.
add all the dry spice powders one by one.
stir well and saute for a minute.
add the sauted bhindi, crushed kasuri methi & salt and mix so that the onion-tomato masala coats the bhindi well.
cook for 2-3 minutes. stir in between.
serve the bhindi masala hot or warm garnished with some coriander leaves and accompanied with chapatis, rotis or naan.

 

[DFB]

Here is a Bhindi masala (ocra with spice mix) recipe I tried. Very good and definitely different. You can vary the heat if you like by adding chopped hot peppers to the sauté.

You make it and I'm eating :thumbsup:

Nice array of spices...I just seen a video for that dish on youtube while doing an okra recipe search. :laughing:


This is similar to what I had described in my earlier post. I don't ever remember having tomatoes with the one from the bbq place though...but adding tomatoes sure cant hurt

Stewed Okra with Tomatoes and Bacon Recipe | MyRecipes.com

 

[txdon]

Here is a Bhindi masala (ocra with spice mix) recipe I tried. Very good and definitely different. You can vary the heat if you like by adding chopped hot peppers to the sauté.

Wow sounds good! There is some new ingredients there that sound exciting. I like all the indian food Iv'e tried. Since most of the ingredients cannot be found near here I will have to go to an Asian mart in Austin.

Right now I am baking cookies - I call them my - Chocolate, molasses, dates, cranberry, pecan, ginger, cinnamon, oatmeal, raisin, vanilla, cookies - or smorgasbord cookies for short.

I bake the cookies on a silicon baking sheet so there is no mess and no sticking, since I use no oils.

 

[IslandTractor]

Wow sounds good! There is some new ingredients there that sound exciting. I like all the indian food Iv'e tried. Since most of the ingredients cannot be found near here I will have to go to an Asian mart in Austin. Right now I am baking cookies - I call them my - Chocolate, molasses, dates, cranberry, pecan, ginger, cinnamon, oatmeal, raisin, vanilla, cookies - or smorgasbord cookies for short. I bake the cookies on a silicon baking sheet so there is no mess and no sticking, since I use no oils.

I'm sure you could get the spices via amazon or online Indian food shop too.

 

[tcreeley]

Here is a pic of our turnips. This is our second season planting these. Never ate one until last year.We just left them in the ground until late October. If I don't freeze them they start to send out new leaves and the root gets woody as it uses its moisture and nutrients for new growth. In the dark, cool area- still does it. If I had a room with 35 F right off- probably would do fine. Too big for the refrigerator, so I freeze them. I kept one last year through the winter and planted it in the spring. Grew fine and went to seed.

 

[IslandTractor]

Here is a pic of our turnips. This is our second season planting these. Never ate one until last year.We just left them in the ground until late October. If I don't freeze them they start to send out new leaves and the root gets woody as it uses its moisture and nutrients for new growth. In the dark, cool area- still does it. If I had a room with 35 F right off- probably would do fine. Too big for the refrigerator, so I freeze them. I kept one last year through the winter and planted it in the spring. Grew fine and went to seed.

Nice. I'd boil those puppies up, mash'm just like potatoes and add butter, salt and pepper....that's good eatin' food!

 

[tcreeley]

Nice. I'd boil those puppies up, mash'm just like potatoes and add butter, salt and pepper....that's good eatin' food!

I like them in stews along with the potatoes!

 

[IslandTractor]

I like them in stews along with the potatoes!

Great in turkey soup too after Thanksgiving. I also cut them into pieces about the same size as thick carrot rounds and cook them with carrots. Nice combo of flavors and they take about the same time to cook.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We like anasazi beans. even grew them a few yrs.

 

[TomSeller]

I guess a lot of folks don't know about our esteemed local rutabaga (turnip) heritage here in Western Mass or Southern Vermont

My brother plants rutabagas in one of my gardens each year and must have not harvested all of them last year. When I first rototilled that garden a few weeks ago, my BCS tiller absolutely hung up and would not go forward. Eventually I raised the tines and went over the top of the obstruction. To my surprise it was a was a HUGE rutabaga like you have pictured with the top partially scalped off.