Food for 7 Stages of Life: Baingan Bartha

Ingredients

Method

Preheat the conventional oven @ 475 F. Massage the egg plant with oil and put it in the oven for 30-40 mins. The eggplant gets smoked and becomes soft from inside. The eggplan t is ready when we can peel of its skin easily. Peel the skin, now we have mushy eggplant, mash it well. I use knife to cut it into small chunks, you can also do it in hand(it might be hot) or put it in a blender.
On a normal stove, roast it on direct flame until it get mushy from inside
Add oil in a kadai, when hot add cumin seeds. Then add the chopped ginger, garlic and fry until it color changes.
Now add chopped onion, shallot and fry it until it turns golden brown. Add turmeric powder while frying.
Add some salt, and then add tomatoes. Salt lets onion and tomato shed water quickly and helps them to cook into a nice gravy. Close kadai with a lid until it becomes mushy.
Add ginger garlic paste. Can skip this if you don't prefer too much of ginger garlic in your food.
Add peas, corn and let it blend nicely with the onion, tomato gravy.
Then add egg plant, cumin powder, chili powder, garam masala powder, salt, kasuri methi.
Add half cup of water and let it cook in sim.
Garnish it with coriander leaves and squeeze some lime.
Wow the baingan bartha is ready to be served with rotis or any bread of your choice.

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Food for 7 Stages of Life