D For Doi Dharosh (Okra cooked in a spicy yogurt gravy)

Now coming to the fourth Alphabet D, When I was searching recipes for this alphabet I found an interesting name for our favorite vegetable. Dharosh means bhindi, bendakaya in Telugu interesting name right. In Andhra cuisine we use okra making sambar, pappucharu, pulusu and stir fry in Bengali cuisine dharosh posto (okra with poppy seeds), dharosh shorshe (okra in mustard sauce), doi dharosh (okra in spicy yogurt). This curry almost looks like our mor kozhambu in Tamil cuisine or majjiga pulusu in Andhra cuisine. But recipe is totally different then south Indian recipe.
                                                        Doi in Bengali is well known as dahi in Hindi, Perugu in Telugu and Thayir in Tamil. Doi is widely used in Bengali cuisine, Bengali's make a wide variety of yogurt based recipes both vegetarian and non- vegetarian. Like doi maach, doi murg, in vegetarian doi folgobi, doi potol, doi dharosh and few more like this.
                                                                               

 
Recipe source :--  Sandeepa
INGREDIENTS:---
Dharosh(okra, bhindi, bendakayalu) ---  20 Wash and pat day
Onion  ---  1 small
Green chillies  ---  2
Yogurt  ---  3 tab sp
Cashew nuts ---  1 tab sp about 5 to 6 cashew nuts
Oil    -----   2 tab sp
Bay leaf  ---  1
Cardamom  ---  2
Clove ---  2
Cinamon ---  1 inch stick
Turmeric powder  ---  1/4 tea sp
Red chilli powder  --- 1/2 tea sp
METHOD :---
1. Wash and pat dry okras. dry the okras properly because we are going to fry whole okras in oil.
2. Cut head and tip of the each okra and set a side.
3. Heat a tab sp oil in a pan add whole okras and a pinch of turmeric powder and cook till okras turn soft, remove from the pan and set a side.
4. add chipped onion to the pan and fry for a while remove.
5. Make a smooth paste with fried onion, green chilli, yogurt, cashew with little water.
6. Heat some more oil in the same pan in which we fried okra and onion.
7. Add cinnamon,cardamom, clove, bay leaf let them splutter.
8. Reduce the heat add masala paste, remaining turmeric powder, red chilli powder and saute the masala for 4 minutes.
9. Add fried okra to the masala mix well and cook for few minutes. Then add 1/4 cup water, salt to taste, sugar and let it cook in a low heat for 3 more minutes taste and adjust the seasoning.
Switch off the heat.
Serve hot with rice or roti...

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