Baingan Bharta

Prepare

1. 🥄Rinse the baingan (eggplant or aubergine) in water.
2. 🔥Pat dry with a kitchen napkin.

Steps

1. 🔥Apply some oil all over and

Cook

1. 🧂keep it for roasting on an open flame.
2. 🍳You can also grill the baingan or roast in the oven.

Steps

1. 🍳But then you won't get
2. 🫇the smoky flavor of the baingan.
3. 🍽️Keep the eggplant turning after a 2 to 3 minutes on the flame, so that its evenly

Cook

1. 🫇cooked.
2. 🍽️You could also embed some garlic cloves in the baingan and then roast it.
3. 🌿Roast the aubergine till its completely cooked and tender.

Steps

1. 🍽️With a knife check the doneness.
2. 🌿The knife should slid
3. ✨easily in aubergines without any resistance.
4. 🥄Remove the baingan and immerse in a bowl of water till it cools
5. 🔥down.
6. 🧂You can also do the dhungar technique of infusing charcoal smoky flavor in the baingan.
7. 🍳This is an optional step.
8. 🫇Use natural charcoal for this method.
9. 🍽️Heat a small piece of charcoal on flame till it becomes smoking hot and red.

Prepare

1. 🌿Make small cuts on the baingan with a knife.

Cook

1. ✨Place the red hot charcoal in the same plate where the roasted

Steps

1. 🥄aubergine is kept.
2. 🔥Add a few drops of oil on the charcoal.
3. 🧂The charcoal would begin to smoke.

Serve

1. 🔥As soon as smoke begins to release from the charcoal, cover the entire plate tightly with a large bowl.

Steps

1. 🧂Allow the
2. 🍳charcoal smoke to get infused for 1 to 2 minutes.
3. 🫇The more you do, the more smoky the baingan bharta will
4. 🍽️become.
5. 🌿I just keep for a minute.
6. ✨Alternatively, you can also do this dhungar method once the baingan bharta is

Cook

1. 🍳cooked, just like the way we do for Dal Tadka.

Prepare

1. 🫇Peel the skin from the roasted and smoked eggplant.
2. 🍽️Chop the cooked eggplant finely or you can even mash it.

Steps

1. 🍽️In a kadai or pan, heat oil.

Prepare

1. 🌿Then add finely chopped onions and garlic.

Cook

1. ✨Saute the onions till translucent.

Steps

1. 🥄Don't brown them.

Prepare

1. 🔥Add chopped green chilies and saute for a minute.
2. 🧂Add the chopped tomatoes and mix it well.
3. 🍳Bhuno (saute) the tomatoes till the oil starts separating from the mixture.

Steps

1. 🧂Now add the red chili powder.

Prepare

1. 🍳Stir and mix well.
2. 🫇Add the chopped cooked baingan.
3. 🍽️Stir and mix the chopped baingan very well with the onion­tomato masala mixture.
4. 🌿Season with salt.

Cook

1. 🫇Stir and saute for some more 4 to 5 minutes more.

Serve

1. 🍽️Finally stir in the coriander leaves with the baingan bharta or garnish it with them.
2. 🌿Serve Baingan Bharta with

Steps

1. 🌿phulkas, rotis or chapatis.

Cook

1. ✨It goes well even with bread, toasted or grilled bread and plain rice or jeera rice.