Maharashtrian Bharli Bhendi is okra stuffed with spices and cooked. It is tasty and pairs well with chapati or as a side dish with rice and amti..
Maharashtrian cuisine is spicy, tasty, has a distinctive taste and makes a good meal anytime. It is mostly vegetarian though not restricted, the jowar roti and the chapati are essentials in daily meals. A few dishes which one can resonate with Maharashtrian cuisine are junka, patal bhaji, bharli baingan and amti. Snacks such as wada pav, surlicha wadi, pav bhaji, kothimbircha wadi, dahi puri, bhel puri to name a few, so tempting isn’t it ?
The Shhhhh Cooking Secretly Challenge group is now all set to explore the beautiful state of Maharashtra, a cuisine which a foodie cherishes and a blogger love to create the myriad dishes from that state. I was paired with Poonam and she gave me groundnut and jaggery, I prepared Bharli Bhendi, it was tasty and we enjoyed it. Bharli Bhendi is a Marathi word which means stuffed okra. Poonam writes at www.poonambachhav.com. Do check her blog for a wide range of dishes. She has many dishes from Maharashtrian cuisine. I had given wheat flour and milk and she had prepared the tasty Goad Dashmi.
If you are following my blog regularly, you know that we love okra at home. A few more okra recipes are here Okra with tomatoes, Okra Stir Fry, Kurkuri Bhendi,
Bharli bhendi / stuffed okra
A few tips while making stuffed bhindi :
- Choose small size okra.
- Lady finger should be tender.
- Wash them and pat dry them well.
- Increase the quantity of ingredients proportionately if you are using varied measurements.
Bharli Bhindi Recipe :
Ingredients:
- 1/2 kilogram okra
- 2 tablespoon roasted peanuts
- 1/2 cup coriander
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 green chilly
- 1/2 cup fresh coconut
- 4 teaspoon goda masala
- 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- a little jaggery
- salt
Method:
- Wash the bhendi and pat dry.
- Make an incision in the centre with a sharp knife.
- For the stuffing, grind these together : peanuts, coriander, garlic, green chilly, fresh coconut, goda masala, turmeric powder, jaggery and lemon juice.
- Put the stuffing into the slit vegetable, keep the remaining mixture, can be used later.
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, turmeric powder and asafoetida, once it splutters, put the stuffed bhendi into it.
- Let cook for sometime.
- Toss in between, it needs to be well cooked on all sides. Put the remaining mixture into it. Let cook for a few more minutes, remove and serve Bharli Bhendi with any flat bread.
Maharashtrian Bharli bhendi / stuffed okra
Maharashtrian Bharli Bhendi / Stuffed Okra
Ingredients
Method
- Wash the bhendi and pat dry. Make an incision in the centre with a sharp knife.
- For the stuffing, grind these together : peanuts, coriander, garlic, green chilly, fresh coconut, goda masala, turmeric powder, jaggery and lemon juice.
- Put the stuffing into the slit vegetable, keep the remaining mixture, can be used later.
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, turmeric powder and asafoetida, once it splutters, put the stuffed bhendi into it. Let cook for sometime.
- Toss in between, it needs to be well cooked on all sides. Put the remaining mixture into it. Let cook for a few more minutes, remove and serve Bharli Bhendi with any flat bread.
Notes
- Use tender lady finger for filling.
- The grated coconut can be directly mixed with the ground mixture and then filled. But, I did grind it.
- Sugar can be used instead of jaggery.
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Stuffed bhindi is one of my favorite one.your version looks too yum and delicious
Next time you make something like this, just invite me over! Looks delicious.
Bhindi is my all-time favourite vegetable. In Rajasthan we make a pretty different stuffing mostly with spices. After reading your recipe, I am definitely going to try the sweet and spicy coconut and jaggery stuffing. What is Goda Masala? I came across it in another recipe too… is it similar to garam masala?
We too love Bhindi at home, goda masala is a spice mix used in Maharashtrian cuisine. They use it many dishes including rasam which is called as amti. I need to make that soon at home. Thankyou for stopping by.
I love this with bhakri and thecha. The bharleli or masala filling varieties of sabzis in Maharashtrian cuisine is just too good. I can never have enough of this.
i like bhindi in any form. Never tried this dish before. This stuffed bhindi looks so delicious.
The stuffed bhendi looks so good. I just bought some goda masala. Will try this recipe soon
Wow.. Love this with Sambhar rice.. Your recipe is so inviting !
Bharli bhendi is favourite in my family ..yours look so flavorful !
I have had stuffed Bhendi, Bharli Bhendi just once, at a Maharashtrian friend’s home, and liked it a lot. It was served with a plain dal . The Bhendi tasted subtly of spices that I could not then identify. Later on I learnt it was the goda masala. I have recently acquired some of this masala and now with this recipe, have a chance to make the dish that I had enjoyed so much. With groundnut, coconut and jaggery, the curry promises to be special!
oooo I love this. Give me a cup of dal and some rice with this and i will be your fan forever