Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baingan bharta smoky eggplant stir-fry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Easy Baingan Bharta (Smoky eggplant stir-fry) 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 is a favorite North Indian curry made by first roasting the garlic studded baingan on an open flame until very soft.
Baingan bharta Smoky eggplant stir-fry is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Baingan bharta Smoky eggplant stir-fry is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baingan bharta smoky eggplant stir-fry using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Baingan bharta Smoky eggplant stir-fry:
- Get medium eggplant
- Make ready medium sized red onion finely sliced
- Make ready tomato chopped
- Make ready ginger grated
- Get garlic grated
- Take turmeric powder
- Take cumin powder
- Take green chilies
- Take red chilli powder(optional)
- Make ready whole cumin seeds
- Prepare chopped coriander leaves
- Take oil for cooking
The texture is very similar to baba ganoush. Traditional baingan bharta recipes involve cooking the eggplant over a fire or charcoal. Smoky Eggplant Stir Fry or Baingan Ka Bharta is a famous Punjabi dish at homes which goes very well with parathas. Eggplants are roasted over flame, then mashed and cooked with onions, ginger, garlic and tomato gravy.
Instructions 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.
The smoky flavour of the dish makes it so delicious and aromatic. This is simple and easy recipe made with basic spices. You can simply pair it with potatoes for a quick stir fry. So you can change the spice mix and you have one new cuisine every time. Baingan Bharata or Smokey dip is definitely one of my favorite ways to eat it.
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