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This is one dish that really celebrates the culinary diversity between my moms place and my inlaws place. Both my mom and mother in law have their own patented recipe for this dish and both taste equally yum. My moms recipe calls for stuffing the eggplant with a mix of powdered dals and spices, whereas my MIL's recipe uses a stuffing made of fried and pureed onions. Either way it's a perfect dish for the maincourse when guests arrive, and goes great with both rice and rotis. And what is more it's really quick to prepare with a microwave Guttivankaya koora (a la moms recipe) 10-12 medium sized eggplants take care to choose all of similar size for the stuffing 1 cup channa dal 1 cup urad dal 1 tbsp dhania salt to taste 2 tsp chilli powder Dry roast the dals and dhania. Cool and grind to a fine powder mix salt and chilli powder into dal mixture. Adjust for taste. Next make a deep cross on each eggplant to create a hollow for stuffing the mixture. Stuff the mixture in each eggp...

Whenever someone mentions roasted eggplant, the first thing that comes to mind is Baingan Bartha. But one of the frst dishes I learnt to prepare at my inlaws, was a dish with roasted eggplant which is extremely simple to prepare and finger licking good. So continuing with my theme of eggplant based dishes here's the recipe. 1 large eggplant 2-3 green chillies 1 medium sized onion 1/8 tsp Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Chilli Powder Salt to taste For Tempering 1 Tbsp oil 1/4 tsp channa dal 1/4 tsp urad dal 1/4 tsp mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Cumin seeds 1-2 dried red chillies pinch of asefotedia Roast the eggplant on an open fire. (Roasting it on hot charcoals will enhance the flavor of the dish). Place it in cold water, peel, mash and keep aside. In a frying pan, add oil, channa dal and urad dal, once dal starts turning reddish brown, add the cumin seeds and mustard seeds, once mustard seeds start to pop, add the red chillies and asefotedia, then add onions,green chillies, salt and turmeric po...

I hated eggplant as a kid. My mom had to do a lot of camaflouging and convincing for me to even think of tasting a dish with eggplant in it. Over the years I have learnt to love this vegetable and have collected and tried out various ways of cooking it. So much do I love eggplant now that one simple post won't be enough for me to raise a song of praise to it. So I'm thinking of making this a serial post My all time favorite dish with eggplant is actually a very humble dish, the simple eggplant rice my father used to make with roasted eggplant. It was the only dish I used to like with eggplant in it as a kid. This simple dish was Daddy's own speciality.  It was his staple diet during his bachelor days. I remember Dad remniscing about his bachelor life as he prepared it. Everytime we had this dish on the table we were treated to anecdotes from his bachelor days Actually this dish is so simple it doesn't need a recipe at all. It's the ultimate proof that simplest thing...