Eggplants Peanut gravy

Name: Eggplants Peanut gravy
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 7/8 small/medium eggplants 🍆; 2 tsp oil; 1/4 tsp asafoetida; 1 onion 🧅; 1/2 tsp mustard seeds; 1 spring curry leaves; 2 tsp coriander powder; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp turmeric powder; 2 tsp coriander leaves; 1/2 cup roasted peanuts 🥜; 1 (4 inch) piece of coconut 🥥 (optional); 1 tomato 🍅; 2 red chilli 🌶; 5/6 garlic pods 🧄; 1 tsp cumin seeds

Swagatika @swagatika

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

This recipe I have learnt in south India, it’s one of those items without which a South Indian feast is incomplete.
Love the richness of the gravy, which goes perfectly with the eggplants. I enjoy this dish with plain rice, but would go well with any kind of rice/rotis as well.

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Tip:
1. Choose small size eggplants, preferably all of similar size, as if the eggplants are big, Masala would not get along well, as it’s cooked whole.
2. Make sure there are no holes in eggplants, as that’s an indication that we have insect inside.

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Swagatika @swagatika

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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Ingredients

7/8small/medium eggplants 🍆
2 tspoil
1/4 tspasafoetida
1onion 🧅
1/2 tspmustard seeds
1spring curry leaves
2 tspcoriander powder
1/2 tspsalt
1/2 tspturmeric powder
2 tspcoriander leaves
Peanut paste
1/2 cuproasted peanuts 🥜
1 (4 inch)piece of coconut 🥥 (optional)
1tomato 🍅
2red chilli 🌶
5/6garlic pods 🧄
1 tspcumin seeds

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Steps

1

Assemble all the ingredients. Make a paste of the ingredients mentioned under the section: Peanut paste.
2

In a pressure cooker pan, heat oil, add asafoetida, crackle mustard seeds followed by onions and curry leaves. Once onion is ready, mix the peanut paste and cook till raw smell goes off. Add salt, turmeric and coriander powder as well.
3

Cut the eggplants into 4 parts keeping the end intact and add to the masala, gently mix so that eggplants get coated nicely with masala. Add 1/4 cup water. Cook for just 1 whistle.
4

Let the steam of the pressure cooker subside. Garnish with its chopped coriander leaves.

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Swagatika @swagatika

on June 21, 2023 05:20

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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