Baingan Bartha

Usually the south indian brinjal recipe is a brinjal curry cut into slices and fried with salt and chili powder. The Baingan Bharta has provided a new form to the use of brinjal in our house. Here it goes

Main ingredients
Two big brinjal

Ancillary ingredients
1 Onion and 1 tomato cut into thin pieces

1 cup curd
Ginger garlic paste

1 tsp sugar
Garam masala powder
chilli powder-little
salt to taste

Description

• Smear oil (preferably gingelly oil) on all sides of the brinjal
• Smoke/Burn/roast the brinjal using hand directly in the fire. see to that you show all the sides. continue till the brinjal is completely burnt till the skin peels off and the brinjal become soft
• Put the roasted brinjal in cold water.
• Now saute the onion and tomato pieces after putting the ginger garlic paste
• Brinjal's skin in cold water by now would have come out completely
• Mash the two brinjals which would be very easy with the brinjals becoming very soft ; there would be still some hard portions which you can cut into small pieces
• Add the mashed brinjal to the sauted onion
• Now add garam masal powder, salt and chilli powder
• Saute the mixture nicely atleast for 5 minutes , slow cooking preferable
• At the end add the 1 tsp sugar (to take out the brinjal sourness) and the curd (to add richness)
• Nice Bhainghan bharta is ready which can be served with nice rotis

Note: if you do not get the big brinjal, you can use the Small brinjals  (atleast 5-6) and pressure cook the same and mash it after removing the peel but using big brinjal and smoking the same gives a great taste to baingan bharta