Vendakkai Moor Kolumbu/ Ladies finger Buttermilk Gravy

Vendakkai Moor Kolumbu

Ingredients:

Oil - 2 tbsp

Small Onions - 5 nos

Curry leaves - 1 strand

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp

Butter Milk - 2 cups

Ladies finger - 10 nos (u can also use ash gourd or drumstick or any vegetable of your choice)

Salt to taste

To grind:

Toor Dhal - 2 tbsp

Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp

Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp

Red chillies - 2 or 3 nos

Coconut - 1 cup

Garlic pods - 4 nos

Small Onion - 6 nos

Method:

1. Grind all the ingredients in the section To grind in a blender and keep it aside. Pour some oil in a pan and fry the ladies finger for 3 to 4 mins and keep it aside

2. In a kadai, pour oil and throw mustard seeds into it and wait till it splitters and add onions and curry leaves and saute till onions are transparent. Then add the ground paste into it and add turmeric powder and salt to it and let it boil for 5 to 8 mins till the raw smell goes off

3. Then add the ladies finger and butter milk to it and let it be on low flame for 2 to 3 minutes. Donot keep it on flame for long time once you add butter milk as it tend to curdle.

4. Serve hot with Rice and Papad.