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Masala Brinjal
By : Manpreet Mehta
Category : Ingredient, Vegetables, Eggplant-brinjal, Brinjal Recipes
Time Taken : 15-30 mins
Rating :
Method
  1. Wash and cut the brinjal from the centre into two parts, without taking out and cutting the tail.
  2. Keep them aside. Chop onions, ginger and tomato saperately (cut the onions long and little thick).
  3. Take a pan and heat up the oil in it, then add mustard seeds, jeera and dhania seeds to it.
  4. When mustard and jeera starts popping, add chana dal and urad dal.
  5. After around one minute add onions and ginger.
  6. Cook it till the onions starts to turn transparent.
  7. Now add red chilly powder, turmeric and mix.
  8. Then put chopped tomatoes. Cook it for 4-5 minutes.
  9. Put off the heat, let the masala cool for few minutes (1-2) and then grind it into paste with electric hand mixer or normal electric mixer.
  10. After making paste, again put this into the pan and on the medium heat, add garam masala, dhania powder and salt.
  11. Now add brinjals to it, cover it and cook till the brinjals are cooked.
  12. Keep on moving it with spatula in between the cooking. So that brinjal masala doesn't get burnt.
  13. Serve it hot with chapatis, parathas or rice.
Note :
Many variations can be made according to your taste, like you can add green chillies instead of red chilly powder.
You can also add garlic to it.
Do not add chana dal or urad dal to it, if you don't like it.
To make it more chat-pata, you can add Amchur powder to it.
Ingredients:
8 - 10 small brinjals
3 - 4 onions
20 gms - ginger
2 - tomatoes
1 tablespoon - garam masala
1/2 tablespoon - dhania (coriander) powder
10-12 - dhania seeds
1/2 teaspoon - mustard seeds (rai)
1/2 teaspoon - cumin seeds (jeera)
1 teaspoon - chana dal
1 teaspoon - urad dal
1/2 teaspoon - turmeric powder
1/2 tablespoon - red chilly powder
3-4 - tablespoon oil
salt to taste
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