Bagaira Baigan

My neighbor, Radha, We have met recently but I got to know her and she is really cool and we got to be good friends. She got married recently and wanted to throw her husband a very special birthday party. She asked me to share the some of my cooking recipes with her. So I thought I would put it up here.

Bagara baingan (Stuffed Egg Plants)

Ingredients:
1. Small Brinjals - 1 lbs,
2. Tamarind
3. onion (chopped fine)- 1,
5. Jeera & Methi seeds - 1 tsp,
6. Dhania - 2 tsp,
7. Til- 2 tsp,
8. Peanuts - 12,
9. Dry khopra - 2" piece (finely grinded),
10. Chilli powder - 2 tsp,
11. Haldi - ½ tsp,
12. Oil - 4-5 tbsp,
13. Few curry leaves,
14. Red chillies (broken) - 2,
15. Salt to taste.
16. Bay leaves 2

Method:

1.Roast the following in a few drops of oil and grind to a paste: til, peanuts, dry coconut, dhania, jeera, methi and chopped onion.
2.Grind the roasted ingrediants with chilli powder and haldi. Mix the pastes and add salt to taste. Set aside.
3.Slit brinjals in four keeping the stem intact, put them in salted water.
4.Deep fry the brinjals in oil till they are cooked and cool them.


5.Stuff the brinjals with masala paste. Heat oil and add mustard seeds, broken red chillies, bay leaves and curry leaves.Fry the baigan in the oil
6.Add the tamarind pulp to the Baigan and add water if needed.
7.Cook covered on slow heat till tender.
8.Can be served with bagara rice, jeera rice or biryani.