Ladies Finger / Okra Soup

A simple and an easy recipe to prepare a healthy vegetarian soup using Ladies Finger/ Okra and dal.

Ingredients

• Ladies Finger  / Okra  – 1/4 Kg
• Tomato – 1 No ( finely chopped)
• Big Onion  –  1 No( finely chopped)
• Peppercorns – 6 Nos
• Green Chilli – 1 No ( slit it to two halves)
• Turmeric Powder – 1/2 Tspn
• Thoor dal / Moong  dal – 50 gms
• Cinnamon, Cloves ,Bay leaf – each one or two
• Cooriander leaves (finely chopped ) – about a table spoon
• Salt  –  to taste
• Water
• Oil

Recipe

1. Cut Ladies finger /Okra into one and half
   inch  pieces.
2. Cook dal well  seperately , mash it  and keep aside.
3. Heat oil in a pan and fry Cinnamon, Cloves ,Bay leaf, pepper corns,green chilli and onions for two minutes.
4. Add the cut Ladies finger / Okra into the above and fry it well till the stickyness goes off.
5. Add enough water to the above and allow ladies finger / okra to cook well.
6. To the above add turmeric powder, chopped tomatoes,salt and allow it to cook well.
7. When ladies finger/okra  gets cooked well add the mashed (cooked) dal to it and allow it to cook for another five minutes.
8. Then garnish the soup with cooriander leaves and it is ready to be served.

Tips

Inorder to reduce the stickyness of Okra while frying add a tspn of lemon extract to it. Okra will get fried soon.