Ingredients:

• 1/4 kg – ladies finger/okra/bhindi
• 1 – Onion
• 2 – Tomato (medium size)
• Lemon size – Tamarind
• 5 – Garlic
• 2 – Red Chilli
• 1 tsp – Mustard Seeds
• 1 tsp – Cumin seeds
• a pinch – asafetida
• 1 tbsp – black gram dal
• 1 tbsp – Bengal Gram dal
• small quantity – Curry leaves
• small quantity – grated/shredded Coconut
• 1/2 tbsp – Red Chilli powder
• 1 tbsp – coriander powder
• 1 tsp – Turmeric powder
• oil for frying
• salt to taste

Method:

1. Chop onions and tomatoes.
2. Make a tamarind paste.
3. Peel off the skin from garlic, grind coconut to a paste and keep other ingredients ready.
4. Heat oil in a pan/kadai, add asafoetida, splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds, black gram dal, Bengal gram dal, curry leaves and red chilly and fry for some time.
5. Then add chopped onions and garlic (whole).
6. Add tomatoes (squeezed) and allow it to boil for some time.
7. Now add red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, little salt and tamarind paste.
8. And add water so that it becomes like a soup.
9. Wash and cut ladies finger and keep in oven for some 4 minutes.
10. Add this to the boiling kuzhambu.
11. Let it boil so that the thickness comes to more than a little half.
12. Finally add coconut paste.
13. Recipe courtesy: http://tamilveg.blogspot.com/