Baghare Baigan Dish

From Vegetarian Dishes Section

Baghare Baigan Recipe

• 500 gms brinjals, small variety, seedless
• Walnut sized imli, soaked in 1 cup water (extract pulp)
• 10 flakes lasan
• 6 flakes lasan, chopped
• 1” piece adrak
• 1 onion, chopped fine
• 1 tsp jeera
• 2 tsp dhania
• 2 tsp til
• 2 tsp khus khus
• 12 peanuts
• 2” dry khopra, desiccated
• 2 tsp chilli powder
• ½ tsp haldi
• 4-5 tbsp oil
• A few curry patta
• 2 broken red chillies
• Salt to taste

Roast the following in a few drops of oil and grind to a paste: til, khus khus, peanuts, desiccated khopra, dhania, jeera and chopped onion.

Grind the following: adrak-lasan, chilli powder and haldi.

Mix both the pastes and add salt to taste. Set aside.

Slit the brinjals in 4 keeping the stem intact. Stuff the brinjals with the masala paste. Heat oil and add chopped garlic, broken red chillies and curry patta.

Fry a little before putting in the stuffed brinjals and imli water.

Cook covered, on slow heat, till tender.