(Baby Green Brinjal/Eggplants stir fried with roasted spices)
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Prep Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Serves: 3-4 Ingredients:
6-8 Baby Green Brinjals, washed and towel dried
2-3 Garlic Flakes, finely sliced
½ tsp Turmeric Powder
Salt to taste
For Tempering/Tadka:
1-1½ tbsp Oil
½ tsp Mustard Seeds
¾ tsp Jeera/Cumin Seeds
½ tbsp Channa Dal/Split Bengal Gram
½ tbsp Urad Dal/Split Black Gram
2 Dry Red Chillies
Big pinch of Hing/Asafoetida
Few Curry Leaves
To be Roasted & Ground to Fine Powder:
1 tsp Jeera/Cumin Seeds
5-6 Dry Red Chillies, stems removed and halved (Adjust acc to taste. I used Byadagi Chillies)
2 cloves of Garlic, finely chopped
1½ -2 tbsp Roasted Peanuts, skins removed or leave it as it is
1 small marble sized Tamarind Pulp/½ tsp Tamarind Paste
1 tsp Jaggery/Brown sugarMethod:
To make spice powder, heat few
drops of oil in a pan and add cumin seeds, halved chilles and finely
chopped garlic. Roast them in low heat for a minute till garlic turns
light brown and cumin seeds too turn light brown. Let it cool down a
bit before you proceed to next step.
Place them in a mixer along
with roasted peanuts, tamarind pulp and jaggery and grind into fine
powder without adding any water. Keep this aside till needed.
Heat
oil in a same pan and add channa dal, urad dal, mustard, dry red
chillies and hing. Sauté it on medium flame till mustard starts to pop
and splutter.
Now add cumin seeds, sliced garlic and curry leaves and sauté till cumin, dal and garlic turns light golden brown.
Drain
water from sliced brinjal pieces and add them to the pan. Increase the
heat and stir fry them continously for about 5 mins. Add turmeric
powder and salt to taste and give it a good stir for another 5 mins.
Mix spice blend and stir fry for another 3-5 mins till all the flavours blend well and brinjal pieces are cooked to tender.
Serve this delicious stir fry with steaming bowl of Rice/Chapatti and Rasam/Dal/Plain Yogurt and enjoy.
Labels:
Baby Green Brinjals,
Cumin,
Garlic,
Palya,
Peanut,
Subjis