This
quick Baigan curry is a simple and easy dish from Maharashtra made with
eggplant, spices and ground peanuts. It is called as Vangyachi amti (curry) in marathi
Eggplant
or Brinjals are called as baigan or baingan in Hindi and vangi or vangya in Marathi For this Brinjal curry recipe, we
need to use baby eggplant or small eggplant. This type is easily available in
Indian grocery stores. If you still have to make this recipe and do not have
baby eggplant, you then buy the regular eggplants and chop them and make this
recipe.
This
recipe comes to rescue on lazy day, when you want to have something quickly
with rice or roti. As this curry is made in Pressure cooker, it hardly takes any time to cook. This is the
recipe which I learnt from my aunt Mrs. U, who stays in Pune. Thanks to her for this
yummy spicy curry.
The
Baigan curry goes extremely well as a side dish with chapatis or jowar bhakris
(sorghum flour flat bread). You can serve the curry as a side dish with rice or
dal rice combo.
Step by step recipe
of Brinjal curry recipe:
Wash
the brinjals well.
Slit them into 4 without breaking them and soak in salted water
until you do other preparations.
In
a grinder add 2 green chilies, 1½ inch piece ginger and 4-5 garlic cloves. Grind them to paste.
In
a pressure cooker pan heat oil, add ¼ tsp mustard seeds and ¼ tsp cumin seeds. Let them
crackle. Add ¼ tsp asafoetida/hing.
Now
add 6-8 curry leaves and the ground ginger garlic green chili paste.
Reduce
the heat to low and fry the masala for 1 minute. Now add in ¼ to ½ tsp Red chili powder, ¼ tsp turmeric and 1 tsp dhaniya powder.
Stir
and add the drained brinjals/eggplant.
Stir
and add ground peanut and salt. Mix well and fry them for a minute until the
brinjals are coated with masala.
Add
in 1 cup water and stir.
Add ½ tsp garam masala and mix.
Cover
the lid of pressure cooker. Cook on medium heat until 1 whistle. Then turn off
the heat.
Let
the pressure in the cooker settle down. Open the lid.
Check
the taste and add more salt, red chili powder or garam masala, if required. Lastly
add chopped coriander leaves
and
drizzle a tsp of lemon juice. Give a final stir. Serve hot.
Quick Brinjal curry/baingan sabzi recipe:
Brinjal
curry – Spicy curry made with eggplant, spices and ground peanuts.
AUTHOR:
Monali
RECIPE
TYPE: side
CUISINE:
Maharashtrian
SERVES:
3-4
INGREDIENTS (measuring cup used, 1 cup=237
ml)
DIRECTION
SERVING SUGGESTION
Serve
this quick Brinjal curry hot with phulkas or as a side dish with rice or dal
rice combo.
|
No comments:
Post a Comment