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Bhagara Baigan

Ingredients

Brinjals and slit into four not fully - 500 grams
green chillies - 5 nos
mustard seed - 1/2 tspn
cumin seeds - 1/2 tspn
curry leaves few
black pepper corns 1/4 tspn
oil 4 to 5 tspns

Things which need to be fried and ground into a paste
onion chopped - 1 no
cumin powder - 1 tspn
coriander powder - 1/2 tspn
chilly powder - 1 1/2 tspn
sesame seeds - 1/4 tspn
ground nuts - 1/4 tspn
fresh coconut - 1 tspn
one tomato
tamarind water.
Grind all this with tamarind water till it gets smooth and thick.

Method

1. Heat oil in a heavy bottom vessel.
2. When the oil is hot add mustard seed, cumin seed, curry leaves, green chillies and black pepper corns.
3. After that add brinjals and keep stirring till the colour changes.
4. Then you pour in the ground ingredients and stir well, add salt to taste.
5. Add a little more water in the blender and pour that also in the pan.
6. Keep stirring and cover the vessel till the brinjals cook and the gravy should get thick and a little oil should stand on top.