Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, baingan bharta smoky eggplant stir-fry. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baingan Bharta is a favorite North Indian curry made by first roasting the garlic studded baingan on an open flame until very soft. This easy baingan bharta recipe is going to be a sure shot hit at home! Baingan (eggplant/aubergine) is studded with garlic and roasted on an open flame, and then stir-fried with aromatics for the most delicious smoky flavor.
Baingan bharta Smoky eggplant stir-fry is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Baingan bharta Smoky eggplant stir-fry is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have baingan bharta smoky eggplant stir-fry using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Baingan bharta Smoky eggplant stir-fry:
- Get 1 medium eggplant
- Prepare 1 medium sized red onion finely sliced
- Get 1 tomato chopped
- Get 1 inch ginger grated
- Make ready 5 cloves garlic grated
- Get 1 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin powder
- Get 2-3 green chilies
- Take 1/2 tsp red chilli powder(optional)
- Get 1/4 tsp whole cumin seeds
- Prepare 1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves
- Get as needed oil for cooking
Fire-roasted and mashed eggplant is stir fried in onions, tomatoes, garlic and spices to make a very flavourful side dish. There's something to be said about fire-roasted eggplant (or brinjal or aubergine, whatever you. Baingan Bharta is mashed eggplant cooked with spiced tomato very flavorful dish. Traditionally bharta is made with charcoal roasted eggplant but I have adopted it Heat the oil in a saucepan on medium high and stir fry the bell pepper for about a minute.
Steps to make Baingan bharta Smoky eggplant stir-fry:
- Wash the eggplant and pat dry. Make slits on the eggplant. The eggplant is now ready for roasting.
- Put the eggplant on open flame. The eggplant can be roasted in oven but the smoky flavor will be missing.
- After the roasting is done, the eggplant should become soft.
- Now let the eggplant cool.
- Peel the skin of the roasted eggplant. Dip it in a bowl of water to remove the remaining bits of the skin of eggplant.
- Mash the eggplant and keep it ready for cooking. (Do not discard the juices that comes out of the eggplant)
- Take a kadai/pan. To it add the oil and heat it.
- Add the cumin seeds to the hot oil and let it splutter.
- Now add the chopped onions, tomatoes, green chilies, grated ginger and garlic and sauté for 1 min.
- Add the turmeric powder, chilli powder, salt, cumin powder and about one tablespoon of water and stir till the water evaporates.
- Now, add the mashed eggplant and keep stirring till all the water evaporates.
- Turn off the flame and garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
Take out the bell pepper from pan and keep aside. Baingan bharta is a spiced and mashed aubergine or eggplant dish popular in the Indian cuisine. Baingan Bharta is a subzi preparation of Chargrilled brinjals cooked with a simple combination of spices and herbs. Every region in India has their own version of baingan bharta…. this is one that's special to the North. Select large brinjals with a shiny smooth surface as these are more likely to be.
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