This is a great dish. The Indian spices were just right -- definitely not what I would call spicy-hot just good and flavorful. The dish is not so exotic that not-so-adventurous palates wouldn't like the dish. I really liked the onion and tomato combination with the okra.
This dish was extremely bland to my taste. I am American but I cook only Indian food for myself and my Indian fiance. We are used to spices- not terribly hot chili spice (he's actually very sensitive to chilis) but just lots of cumin coriander turmeric ginger etc. But when I made this recipe even though I added twice the stated amounts of each spice (as Manisha said the spices could be increased and I knew the amounts were very small for our tastes) AND I added chopped fresh coriander it was still disappointingly bland. I also used about 1/2 of the recommended oil. I gave the recipe 2 stars because it still has some of the basic ingredients for a good okra dish and it may be good in a pinch (when you're not in the mood to chop/measure out a bunch of ingredients).
I've made this several times without the asafoedita and it's always tasted great.
I decreased the oil to 2 Tbsp and used fresh okra and it was delicious and easy! I also used cayenne pepper instead of chili powder. It's well flavored but not too spicy. If you really want the burn add more spices or peppers---I'll do this next time I make it.
This is a decent okra dish but it's not a very good Indian okra dish. I doubled the spices and added half of a jalapeno and it still seemed to be missing something so I added coriander and fresh ginger and I topped it with chopped cilantro. Nope still missing something. I love the okra at our favorite Indian restaurant and although I didn't expect this to taste like that I expected more flavor. Thanks anyway.
I make this recipe frequently. Indian food is not always supposed to be spicey and the amount of spices is just right. Wonderful easy recipe to make.
I give this one 2 stars but due to operator error:) I love okra but don't cook it very often so mine turned out really stringy. Guess those special spices are pretty important too; I had to eliminate a couple and the resulting flavor was not what I expected.
I'm sorry but I did not care for this recipe at all. Please learn from my mistake and save yourself the trouble. This was so bland; I more than doubled the spices and still it didn't taste flavorful at all. In fact it tasted pretty bad (before and after adding more spices). I tried to fix it up but really this recipe isn't even worth experimenting with.
This was a pleasant surprise. The favors blended well for me. I didn't have a couple of the spices but it still worked.
