Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Shorshe Dharosh


Shorshe Dharosh or Okra in Mustard sauce is a deliciously tasting dish with interesting flavors. This bengali dish is made of fried okra cooked in mustard sauce to a thick gravy. This is a simple gravy curry easy to make for your busy days.

Prep Time-30mins | Cook Time-10mins | Serves-3 to 4 people 
Adapted : A Mad Tea Party
Ingredients 
15Okra's {cut them into half if they are too long}
1/4Cup water 
1Tsp red chili powder {optional}
Pinch of sugar
Salt to taste
For gravy
2Tbs mustard seeds
1Tbs poppy seeds
4Tbs grated coconut
1/4Tsp turmeric
2Green chili's
2Tbs yogurt
2Tbs water 
Seasoning
1Tsp fenugreek seeds
1Tsp nigella seeds
Few curry leaves
1Tbs oil 
Directions
- Soak mustard & poppy seeds for 20mins. 
- Grin all the ingredients under gravy to a smooth paste. You can use use a mortar & pestle or your grinder to make the paste. 
- Wash & pat dry okras. Cut them to half if they are too long.
- Heat pan with oil. Add the seasoning to pan & after few seconds of frying them add okra to pan.
- Fry them for 2mins. Add the gravy paste & red chili powder to pan along with water.
- Cook with a closed lid for 5mins on a medium heat. Okra will be cooked perfect by now.
- Add salt & sugar to pan. Balance the flavor if needed. 
- Cook for 1mins & switch off heat.
- Serve with rice or roti. 
Note
- You can reduce mustard to 1Tbs & increase poppy seeds to 2tbs to reduce the mustard taste.
- Red chili powder is optional. If you green chili's aren't hot enough then use red chili powder. 
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17 comments:

  1. Very appealing and beautiful looking shorshe dharosh, love that eye pleasing bowl of curry and fabulous spice mixture for the gravy.

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  2. another beautiful curry from your site, you have an amazing collection for veg dishes and the i had great time doing this marathon with you....just wanted to also mention that i love your site, the post, the pictures, the spacing it is all perfect...

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  3. what a nice end to the mega marathon,,, so homey and comforting,,,

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  4. Very nicely done!...Enjoyed this mega marathon with you...good job!

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  5. That is one very flavorful and delicious okra curry.

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  6. Looks very good. With all the mustard I am sure it is very flavorful.

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  7. Sounds new to me,must be a flavorful okra curry,looks so creamy and delicious..

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  8. curry looks yummy. would make a nice combination with rice too. bookmarking it

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  9. Curry sounds so delicious and perfect combo for rice and even Chapati....

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  10. The curry looks so delicious. I had wnated to make this curry but with egg plant. Now that i have a reliable recipe will try it out.It was a great marathon. Thanks for running it with me.

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  11. wow shorshe dharsrosh looks very very inviting and such an comforting curry to end up the long marathon :)

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  12. Sounds like a veryintersting curry!It was nice doing this marathon with you Sreevalli :)

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  13. This is on my to do list. Okra in mustard gravy sounds very interesting and yum

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  14. A mustard gravy sounds very interesting.... Bookmarked and should try it out once.

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  15. Simple yet flavorful dish. It was a pleasure running the marathon with you.

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