Bagara Baingan Recipe
The Bagara Baingan is a South Indian curry made with eggplants or brinjals. It is prepared by cooking the baby eggplants cooked in peanut and coconut-flavored gravy.
Ingredients
- 10 Baby eggplant tops cut off and slit length wise
- 2 tablespoons Cooking oil for frying the eggplants
- ¼ cup tamarind seedless, soaked in ½ cup water
- ¼ cup Peanuts shelled
- 2 teaspoons Sesame seeds
- 1 teaspoons Cumin seeds
- 3 tablespoons Desiccated or Dried coconut - natural
- ⅓ cup Cooking oil
- 1 Red onion medium, sliced finely
- 4 tablespoons Ginger-garlic paste
- 1 teaspoons Salt
- 1 tablespoons Coriander powder
- 1 teaspoons Turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoons Kashmiri chilli powder
- 2 Green chillies
Instructions
- Wash and dry the brinjals and cut slits in them. Leave the base part uncut. Leave the stem intact.
- Fry them in the cooking oil until the skin softens, then set them aside.
- Soak the tamarind in hot water and set it aside.
- Dry roast the peanuts, white sesame and coconut. Remove the peanuts skin as much as possible.
- Set aside to cool. After cooling blend them with little water till smooth paste.
- Dry roast and grind other ingredients, one at a time, till they are lightly brown. Mix them with the ground peanut paste and set the mixture aside.
- Cut the onions and fry them till they are medium brown.
- Once the onions are brown, add and saute the garlic and ginger paste for about 30 seconds.
- Then add 1 cup of water, and reduce the heat cover. Cook for 10 minutes so the onions can soften more.
- Add the salt, red chili powder, and turmeric, along with the roasted and ground ingredients.
- Add 2 cups of water, bring the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat, cover, and cook for 10 minutes.
- Uncover and add the tamarind water and curry leaves. If necessary, add more water and adjust the spices.
- Next, layer the eggplants on top of the curry and cook on low heat for 10 minutes to allow them to cook fully.
Notes
The nutritional facts of Baghar Baingan are –
- Serving: 1 person
- Calories: 286kcal
- Carbohydrates: 10g
- Protein: 3g
- Fat: 27g
- Saturated Fat: 6g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 14g
- Trans Fat: 0.1g
- Sodium: 403mg
- Potassium: 167mg
- Fiber: 3g
- Sugar: 4g
- Vitamin A: 184IU
- Vitamin C: 44mg
- Calcium: 52mg
- Iron: 1mg