Stuffed Okra

Ingredients

• 500 g okras, washed, wiped dry, top and tail trimmed, slit lengthwise with ends joined
• ¼ cup groundnuts
• 1"-piece ginger, peeled, finely grated
• ¼ cup gram flour
• 1½ tsp garam masala powder
• 1 tbsp jaggery, crumbled
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• Oil for frying
• Salt to taste

Method

1. Put the groundnuts in a pan and roast until fragrant and lightly brown. When cool, remove the skin. Place in the mixer and grind coarsely.
2. Add the ginger to the groundnut powder along with the gram flour, garam masala powder, salt to taste, crumbled jaggery, and lemon juice. Mix well. Stuff a little bit of this mixture into each okra so that all the cut surfaces are well covered.
3. Heat the oil in a wok (kadhai); fry the stuffed okras until crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain the excess oil on absorbent kitchen towels.
4. Serve hot.

Source note: Adapted from Isha Foundation’s A Taste of Well-Being (Harper Element, 2016).