Lady finger curry/bendakaya/okraa curry with step by step instructions

 Ladyfinger curry/bendakaya/okra curry with step by step instructions 

Ladies finger is a gooey green vegetable that is equally loved and hated for its taste and texture, but it is rich in fibre and other nutrients like vitamin A, B, and C with other minerals. 

Benefits of ladies finger:

1. It Prevents Anaemia, Ladyfinger is a rich source of vitamin K, folate and iron, all of which are helpful for anaemic patients. This will naturally healthily increase your haemoglobin levels.
2. It Helps Control Blood Sugar, This vegetable contains the fibre eugenol, which assists in slowing the process of digestion and thereby lowers the absorption of sugar from the bloodstream. In effect, after a meal, this process avoids hiking up blood sugar levels and stabilises them.
3. It Lowers Cholesterol, Ladies finger, apart from being great in taste, contains a fibre called pectin. It is this very fibre that helps in keeping the cholesterol levels low (especially bad cholesterol), by reducing the absorption of cholesterol by the gut and removing any deposits and clots.
4. It improves Anemic Condition, Since ladies finger contains iron, folate and vitamin K, it helps improve the iron and folic acid content of the body in a natural manner, which in turn assists in combating anaemia.
5. It Builds Immunity, the vitamin C content of ladies fingers helps build a person’s general immunity levels.
6. It has better eyesight, this gooey vegetable contains vitamin A and beta carotene, both of which assist in improving eye health.
7. It also as Better digestion This benefit again can be attributed to the high fibre content of ladies fingers. The fibre helps better digestion as well as to regularise bowel movements. The fibre pectin goes up in size in the pieces of digestion within the intestine and thus enables waste elimination easily.

Tips:

1. Don't overcook ladies fingers; it will lose a lot of the nutrients. 
2. Try and have ladies fingers for at least two meals a week to have maximum benefit.
3. Ladyfinger is a great dietary addition for those suffering from constipation.

• Serves: 4 to 5 persons
• Course: main course or side dish 
• Cuisine: India, Telangana, Andhra
• Place of origin: India
• Main ingredient: ladyfinger, green chillies
• Author: lohitha 
• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time: 20 minutes
• Total Time: 35 minutes   

Other preparation:

• Wash the ladies finger and wipe the water or dry for some time, so that the stickiness of the ladyfinger doesn't have

Ingredients:

1. ½ kg ladies finger
2. 20 green chillies, chopped in small size
3. 2 sprig curry leaves
4. Few coriander leaves
5. 1 tsp coriander powder
6. Salt to taste
7. 4 tsp oil
8. 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
9. 1 onion, chopped in small size
10. 1 tsp mustard seeds
11. 1 tsp cumin seeds
12. ½ tsp hing

• Here I am using green chillies according to the spice of the chillies.

Preparation of ladyfinger curry with step By step instructions:

1. Heat the oil in a pan
2. Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, curry leaves, and hing to it and stir everything fry until they splitter
3. Add onion and green chillies to it and stir everything, saute it until it gets transparent
4. Add ginger-garlic paste and turmeric powder to it and stir everything and cook ante raw goes out of it
5. Add ladies finger to it and mix everything, close the lid and cook for 10 minutes in low to medium flame, cook until the stickiness leaves from the ladyfinger
6. Add salt as per taste and cook until the tender goes out of the ladies finger
7. Add coriander powder and coriander leaves to it, stir everything and close the lid for a while and turn off the flame

Enjoy the tastyyummiest lady finger curry