Ingredients

• 100 g - urad dal
• 100 g - channa dal
• 3 tbsp - methi seeds
• 10 to 15 - dry red chillies
• lemon size tamarind
• 1/2 cup - dry coconut
• 500 g - brinjals
• salt to taste
• 1.5 cup - oil

How to Make Guthi Vankaya

• Roast urad, chana dal, methi, dry red chillies and coconut. Then grind all these roasted items with tamarind into fine powder and add salt.
• Now slit the brinjal into 4 parts and stuff the powder.
• Keep some quantity for sprinkling on brinjal and that is the last step.
• Heat oil in a thick-bottomed kadai and cook the brinjals on a low flame for 30-45 minutes.
• Keep on stirring so that brinjals get cooked evenly.
• Make sure that you cover the kadai with a lid.
• Pour some water on the lid as this prevents the curry from getting burnt.
• Once the brinjals become soft, sprinkle the remaining powder and serve with steaming hot rice.