Recipe: Baingan Bharta

Ingredients:

• Onion – 1, cut.
• Tomatoes – 2-3, diced.
• Green chili – 1, cut.
• Garlic – 1-2 cloves, cut.
• Large purple brinjals (eggplants) – 2.
• Cardamom – 2 pods.
• Cumin seeds – 1/2 teaspoon.
• Salt to taste.

Ingredients.

Method:

Peeled brinjals.

• Roast the brinjals on an open flame, till they become soft and juicy (they will actually start dripping).
• Peel them.
• In about 3 teaspoons of vegetable oil, fry the cumin seeds and powdered cardamom till the cumin seeds pop.
• Add the green chili and garlic and fry.
• Add the onion and fry till it turns translucent.
• Add the tomatoes and continue to fry.
• Cut the roasted and peeled brinjals and add them to the onion and tomatoes.
• Cook till the brinjal turns soft.
• Add salt to taste.

Baingan Bharta.