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Baingan Bhartha

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Baingan Bhartha or Eggplant-wider and bigger shape brinjal, is an authentic Indian cuisine, part of culinary traditions of India, cooked with little variations all over India. It is simple recipe and tastes delicious. Recipe is really dined in love for food lovers. Served with paratha (Indian bread) or roti makes it taste mouth watery. It is served as a main course curry in celebrations, parties or eaten as a regular meal-lunch, dinner. It takes 20-25 min to cook recipe. Recipe is quite easy to cook, palatable to eat, can be cooked in each and every kitchen and can consume regularly.

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Cooking Ingredients:

• 2-3 Eggplant of bigger and wider size.
• 1 teaspoon of cooking Oil.
• 1 teaspoon of Sesame seeds.
• 1 teaspoon of crushed whole Pepper.
• 1 teaspoon Salt to taste.
• 2-3 green Chili.
• 2-3 Tomatoes medium sized and juicy.
• 1 teaspoon of whole Cumin.
• 6-8 strands of peeled garlic.
• 1 teaspoon of Carrom seeds.
• 1 teaspoon of Coriander powder.
• 1 teaspoon of Kashmiri laal Mirch. (Adds color)
• Some strands of fresh Green Coriander leaves.
• May add boiled green peas to a recipe as well. (This is optional).

Cooking Tips for Beginners:

• Heat Eggplant on gas stove Tandoor, brings better flavor to Eggplant. By this, upper crust of Eggplant is only burnt and can be peeled with hands.
• Burning upper layer if eggplant is important, as it removes bitter taste and harmful bacteria from foods. Heating it directly on Gas stove, may burn inner layer of foods.
• Also, destroys nutrition value of foods. Direct heat on Gas stove, adds black carcinogens to eggplant pulp. That is not easy to extract. And eating it is not good as well.
• We prefer blending Eggplant with Tomato puree. And avoid adding onions to it. By this it avoids digestion issues.Also, blending Eggplant with tomatoes keep food recipe simple and enhances flavor of Eggplant added in it.
• Adding sesame to recipe helps promote weight loss.Avoid adding lot of oils to a recipe.
• Dipping it in red-chili powder can cause inflammation and make Spices become more dominant. It also spoils taste of eggplant. Avoid roasting Eggplant a lot more in a pan. Just sauté it mild to retain its nutritional value.

Cooking Method:

1. Also add 1 teaspoon salt to pan as well.
2. Add Eggplant mash, Tomato puree, finely chopped Garlic and green chili to pan. Mix well.
3. Mix crushed black pepper, coriander powder and red-chili powder.
4. Roast 2-3 minutes on low flame.
5. Decorate Baingan Bhartha with fresh coriander.
6. Serve 2-3 people with roti or chapati.