Ingredients

• 1 - brinjal or Chinese eggplant
• Curry leaves - a few
• Panch puran (mustard, fenugreek, cumin, kala jeera, fennel seed )
• 250 g - curd or yogurt
• 1 tsp - sugar
• Salt to taste
• 2 - green chillies
• Small piece - ginger
• A pinch - turmeric
• Oil for frying

How to Make Dahi Baigan (Oriya Dish)

• Cut brinjal into thin 2-inch long pieces and smear a mixture of turmeric and salt on brinjal
• Deep fry the brinjal pieces and keep aside.
• Mix yogurt lightly with sugar, salt and little water and fried brinjals and keep aside
• Heat one table spoon of oil in a pan and put the panch puran and splutter
• Add green chillies and ginger and fry them and then add curry leaves.
• Add it to yogurt and serve