Okra & Coconut Fry

Recipe Ingredients:

500 gm okra, chopped &
1/2 cup desiccated coconut
1/2 tbsp red chilli powder
1/2 tbsp cumin seeds
1/2 tbsp mustard seeds
10 cashew nuts
4 dry red chillies, broken into two
4 tbsp oil
salt (according to taste)

How to Prepare:

Dry okra for at-least 2 hours. Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan . Add cashew nuts and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5-6 minutes, untill light golden brown in colour. Immediately tip them out of the pan and reserve untill needed.

In the same oil add mustard seeds and cumin seeds and dry red chillies, stir around for 30 seconds, or untill they brown and crackle. Add okra pieces and fry till done. Add the desiccate coconut, mix well and fry them for few seconds.

Finally add reserved cashew nuts, red chilli powder and salt, stir well untill combined. Serve hot.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve with rice.