Thursday, July 29, 2010

BADADNEKAI YENNEGAI (stuffed eggplant masala)


Ingredients:
  • Small eggplant - 4 to5
  • Coconut - 1 table spoon
  • Red chili - 6 to7 long (acc to taste)
  • Peanut - 2 to 3 tea spoon
  • Sesame seeds - 2 tea spoon
  • Cumin - 1 tea spoon
  • Coriander - 1 tea spoon
  • Methi seeds - a pinch
  • Urad dal - 2 tea spoon
  • Tamarind pulp - 1 tea spoon (thick pulp)
  • Oil for shallow frying
  • salt - 1/2 tea spoon

Preparation:
  1. Dry roast red chili,peanut, seame seeds,cumin,coriander,methi ,urad dal till light golden.
  2. Add coconut to that and fry for few more seconds and off the flame.
  3. Grind it to fine paste with salt,tamarind pulp and few spoons of water.
  4. Now make two slits on the eggplants,lengthwise such that the slits form a "+" sign on each ,Retain the stalk of the eggplant.
  5. Now stuff the masala inside the split eggplant.
  6. Pour the excess masala over the stuffed eggplant and place on a pan with enough oil.
  7. Then shallow fry the eggplant by turning to cook both the sides

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