BRINJAL DRY CURRY

Here is one of dry brinjal curry recipe which is ofenly prepared at my in law house.

Brinjal Dry Curry (in Tamil Iyengar style)

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Serving: 4 persons

Ingredients

Brinjal(Egg plant)-250 grams(small size)

Oil-2 tsp

Mustard-1 tsp

Broken Black Gram (Urad) Dal-1/2 tsp

Asafetida (Hing)-a pinch

Curry leaves-5-6

Turmeric Powder-1/2 tsp

Salt-to taste

For Masala

Black Gram (Channa) Dal-3 tsp

Coriander Seed-6 tsp

Dry Red Chilies- 6-7

Oil-1 tsp

Method

• Wash and cut the brinjal (egg plant) in 1” inch cube size.

• Heat a pan put one tsp oil.

• Put all masala items in that and fry it till the nice roast smell reaches to your nostril.

• Remove it from pan and allow it to get cool down.

• Once it is cooled then grind this in mixer like powder and keep aside.

• Now in same pan heat the remain oil.

• Add mustard seed, broken black gram dal, curry leaves and asafetida powder in this.

• Allow mustard seed to crack.

• Then add brinjal in this along with turmeric powder and salt.

• Once brinjal is cooked add the prepared powdered masala and mix well.

• Fry it for couple of minutes.

• Serve hot with rice.

TIPS

• Don’t keep the cut brinjal for long duration because it turns to black color.