This Aloo Bhindi is a dry curry with Okra and Potatoes and some Indian spices. Bhindi or Okra is not really a favourite due to a few reasons. I have cooked with it quite a bit though simply because it’s so easy to get here and quite fresh. However, a dry curry with bhindi and aloo (okra potato dry curry) is a fabulous idea and here’s why:
Fact: Okra is slimy
Another fact: Potatoes are delicious
Fact 3: When delicious and slimy get together, it creates a pretty great dish.
If you want a bhindi recipe with more gravy, try the okra stew, or the dahi bhindi masala which is delicious with roti.
When I go to the nearby supermarket, I run out of vegetables to buy. There are about 5 rows of green leafy vegetables which I can’t bother with over weeknights, and there are the usual suspects like beans and carrot and broccoli and capsicum. I just have to reach for the okra packet on those nights.
Cooking okra with aloo into a dry sabzi is a great idea especially for non-okra lovers. You can serve this aloo bhindi with rotis or rice.
Aloo Bhindi Dry Curry Recipe (Aloo Bhindi Recipe)
Adapted from: Sailus Food
Serves 2
INGREDIENTS:
1 potato, cut into small cubes
10 okra, cut into 1/2″ discs
1 tbsp tamarind water (add a small piece of tamarind to 1 tbsp water. Extract juice, discard pulp)
1 tbsp oil
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
A generous pinch of hing / asafoetida / perungaayam
1/2 tsp jeera / cumin seeds
1-2 tsp dhania / malli / coriander powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder (adjust to taste)
1/2 tsp garam masala or curry powder (whatever you have in hand)
A pinch of ginger powder (optional)
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
A few curry leaves
Salt to taste
10 okra, cut into 1/2″ discs
1 tbsp tamarind water (add a small piece of tamarind to 1 tbsp water. Extract juice, discard pulp)
1 tbsp oil
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
A generous pinch of hing / asafoetida / perungaayam
1/2 tsp jeera / cumin seeds
1-2 tsp dhania / malli / coriander powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder (adjust to taste)
1/2 tsp garam masala or curry powder (whatever you have in hand)
A pinch of ginger powder (optional)
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
A few curry leaves
Salt to taste
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Heat oil and add mustard seeds. When they pop, add the rest of the ingredients below in the order given.
2. Once the masalas have been fried for about a minute, add the cut vegetables and the tamarind water. Mix well until all the ingredients are well incorporated.
3. Cook covered, stirring frequently, until the potatoes are tender and the okra is cooked, non-slimy, and has learnt a thing or two from the potatoes.
Serve hot with steamed rice and gravy of choice. Here are more dry vegetarian side dishes for roti and rice.
'3. Cook covered, stirring frequently, until the potatoes are tender and the okra is cooked, non-slimy, and has learnt a thing or two from the potatoes.'
This was cute !!! Am trying this recipe now. Thanks!
I love Okra! I didnt know abt this combination. Prepared it many a times. Liked it 🙂 Tried a slight variation. Replaced potato with raw banana. Packed it for the lunch today 🙂
what a great idea to replace aloo with raw banana. i think that's a good substitute, works well for this aloo bhindi recipe 🙂
Love your blog! Especially the last line of this recipe 🙂
I'm still new to the cooking world and have been trying my hands at a few simple recipes,and your blog does wonders for me.
Thanks for sharing your talent!
P.S The photographs make me wanna dig into my computer screen!
Aloo okra sabzi is one of my favourites too, so glad you liked the recipe Ritika 🙂
Thank you! Glad you liked the simple aloo bhindi recipe
Great detail and well presented. At last recipes that work! Thank you!
Beautiful pictures! Looks really good!
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LOL!!! This was a hilarious post! It was almost like you were admonishing the bhindi! But I see your logic! 😛
Nice recipe, btw. I love this combo with sukha roti (no ghee)
My hubby loves potatoes and my daughter loves okra and they both hate what each other loves. But I loved the recipe as I get to make one dish for them to pick what they love and leave what they don't for the other…haha..what a love hate veggie for my family 😀
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LOL @ learnt a thing or two from potatoes. You are funny 🙂
What a beautiful presentation dear.
I like potato, I like bhendi and combining this two is such a clever idea. Loved the pics, Nags!
I've tried the same recipe from Sailus and posted about it too sometime last year. :)) So this is quite favorite among bloggers i guess.
Fantastic okra sabzi… I just love this yummy combo and you have made it so perfect. I wud love to give ur version a shot soon !
your dishes look yum ! will definitely try them…. you can also view n follow my blog http://kitchensojourn.blogspot.com/ .. will be really happy !
wow both are my favorite!! as always great picutre
Okra is my husband's fav and I somehow manage to gulp them 🙂 Your dish looks really nice, have to make them for Arvind, he will love it !
Hmmmm… I love this combo a lot, but my Husband doesn't like okra:(
Pics are superb Nags..
wow…what a coincidence…i prepared the same subzi yday(adapted from sailus food).This is the second time its occurrin..first time it was cauliflower briyani.Prepared it on feb 13(similar recipe) and u posted it durin the same week..wah!!! Ur pictures are simply superb!!
Nags, you are making me J with your beautiful collection of pots and pans every other week;)
The first picture is simply gorgeous!
Loved the curry. The combination of the vegetables is mind blowing 🙂
My all time fav subji..yummmm and very nice clicks!!
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Great looking sabzi, never tried this combo..
I love this combo,I too make it often…looks yumm
wonderful combo Nags. My kids will love them if you could pass over some.
Wonderful combo… Both my daughter's fav…
Asual nice clicks.
First picture,cookbook cover page kinds 😀
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Awesome combo Nags, I love both okra and potatoes…. This will be a great side dish for hot sambhar rice, Rasam and curd rice..
Nice combo,never tried though!Looks perfectly done! 🙂
awww thanks HB! 🙂