- Servings: 4
- Preparation time: 10 minutes.
- Frying time: 12-13 minutes.
- Total time: 23 minutes.
This Baigan ki sabji is without onion and garlic, very authentic and traditional sabji from Awadh, Uttar Pradesh. The Avadh style cooking is the Dum style cooking. That means cooking on low flame. Here I used the kasuri methy, spinach, mustard oil that adds the unique taste and health benefits too. Cook this recipe today and enjoy! Please don’t forget to write me.
Ingredients:
- Baigan (egg plant): 300 gm
- Potato: 1 no. (Medium size)
- Spinach: 100 gm
- Tomato: 1 no. (Medium size)
- Dry mango powder: ½ teaspoon (You can use fresh raw mango).
- Kasuri methi: 2 tablespoon (You can use fresh fenugreek leaf).
- Mustard oil: 2 tablespoon
- Panch phoran: ½ teaspoon (mustard seed, cumin, fennel seed, fenugreek seed, and carom seed.)
- Red chilli: 1 no.
- Chilli powder: ½ teaspoon
- Turmeric powder: ½ teaspoon
- Coriander powder: ½ teaspoon
- Salt: 1 teaspoon
- Asafoetida: 1 pinch
- Green coriander leaves: 1 tablespoon
Preparation:
- Cut egg plant into small pieces (~ 1”pieces), keep this in a bowl filled with water otherwise it will turn dark brown due to high iron content. Keep aside.
- Peel off and chop potato into small pieces. Keep aside.
- Chop tomato into small pieces, keep aside.
- Roughly chop spinach, keep aside.
Method:
- Take fry pan, heat 2 tablespoon of oil, let oil start to smoke.
- Add panch phoran and red chilli, Sputter it for few seconds.
- Add egg plant (baigan), potato, spinach stir properly.
- Then add kasuri methi, chilli, turmeric, coriander powder and salt stir it.
- Reduce to low flame, cover the lid. Stir occasionally, so that it should not burn.
- Cover for 8-10 minutes till vegetables are 80% done.
- Add tomato stir it; cover the lid again till vegetables are done.
- Add Garam masala powder and Put off the flame.
- “Baigan/brinjal ki sukhi sabji (egg plant ki dry sabji)” is ready to be served.
- Transfer the sabji into serving bowl and sprinkle the coriander leaves. Serve hot with paratha, poori or rice.
Baigan/brinjal ki sukhi sabji (egg plant ki dry sabji) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.