Microwave Bhindi

On popular demand from my bachelor friends as they believe in Microwave Cooking a lot ;)

Ingredients

• Grind  4 cloves of garlic , 2 onions & 1 tomato together .
• 2 tbsp for cooking on gas.
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• Hing 1 tsp
• 500 gm bhindi slit - each piece into four.
• Roasted peanut, about 1/2 cup, grind it to a smooth powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1tsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp aamchur (dried mango powder)
• 1/3 tsp haldi
• 1 tsp jeera powder (dry roast)
• 1 tsp dhania powder(dry roast)
• 1 tsp sugar
• 2 tbsp oil.

Method

• Mix the slit bhindi with masalas and then add oil and mix well. Microwave on high for 10-12 minutes. Do stir it a couple of times in between.
• In a pan heat 2 tbsp oil. Add cumin seeds and hing for tadka.
• Add the onion, garlic and tomatoes mixture. Bhuno for 5 minutes or till tomatoes leave oil.
• Add little salt for taste (don’t add too much as there is already salt in bhindi), sugar (1 tsp). Put the micro waved bhindi in this mixture and place the whole mixed masala and bhindi mixture again in the microwave safe bowl.
• Microwave for 5 minutes more or till bhindi is well dehydrated and cooked.
• Serve Hot.