Bheeda ma Jhinga

Okra and Prawn Stew

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Route to Parsi Cooking: From Pars to India and Beyond

By Niloufer Mavalvala

Published 2024

  • About

Okra (bheeda, bhindi) is a vegetable that is versatile and healthy. It can be prepared in a variety of ways: fried, roasted, in stews, soups, gumbos, and jambalaya. This vegetable is commonplace from the shores of India through the Middle East and Turkey to Cyprus and Greece. The southern part of America and the islands all enjoy this vegetable in their daily diets.

It has the healing powers to aid diabetics, constipation, and dryness, among other things.

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