Ingredients:
- Baby eggplants/Brinkal/vankayalu - 6
- Onions (finely chopped) - 3
- Garlic (finely chopped) - 4 cloves
- Peanuts/Groundnuts - 1/2 cup
- Sesame seeds - 3 tbsp
- Red chilli powder - 1tsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
- Salt - to taste
- Oil - 2tbsp
- Garam masala (optional) - 1/4 tsp
- Water - 1 cup(approximately)
Method:
- Wash baby eggplants, dry it and slit them in the center as in a cross-section but do not cut them in halves. Keep them in the water so that it will not change its colour.
- Roast peanuts/groundnuts & sesame seeds, cool them and grind together into a fine powder.
- Take a bowl add finely choppeed onions, garlic, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt and peanut, sesame seeds powder and mix it well.
- And add 2-3 tbsp of water in this mixture just to combine all spices together.
- Stuff the eggplants/brinjals with this mixture. Rest of the mixture keep it aside.
- Heat oil in deep pan and add the leftover mixture in oil. Fry it well till the oil separates from the mixture.
- Now add the stuffed eggplants/brijals in the masala and mix it well. Cover and cook for 3-4 min.
- Add 1 cup of water to it. Cover and cook for another 5-6 min or till the eggplants are well cooked.
- Check for the consistency of the gravy. It should not be very thin.
- Tasty stuffed baingan masala is resdy to serve.
- You can serve with rice, roti,chapathi or paratha.
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