Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, smoky baingan bharta / eggplant bharta / smoked eggplant mashed. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Baingan bharta is a popular north Indian dish where fire roasted eggplant is mashed and cooked with spices. It's best served with fresh rotis or parathas. There are different ways of making this bharta [bharta=mash] but this is the most common way and the one you will find in Indian restaurants.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have smoky baingan bharta / eggplant bharta / smoked eggplant mashed using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Smoky Baingan Bharta / Eggplant bharta / smoked eggplant mashed:
- Take 1 Eggplant (Brinjal), yielding to 2 cups of roasted brinjal approximately
- Get 3 tbsp Oil
- Make ready 10-12 cloves Garlic
- Prepare 1 pinch Hing
- Prepare 2 Green chilli
- Take 1 Onion
- Take 1 Tomato
- Take 1/2 cup Fresh cilantro leaves
- Get 1 tsp Red chilli
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Prepare 1 piece Charcoal
The traditional bharta is a long process, Large eggplants are roasted over a flame or grill to char the skin. The skin is them removed and the partially cooked eggplant is mashed. Then added to a spiced onion tomato base and cooked to roast the..baingan bharta recipe. firstly, i always recommended using the big and fat eggplant rather small and long eggplant for this recipe. while frying with direct flame, former one should hold its shape and do not dissolve. secondly, before roasting the eggplant, make some cuts and also stuff it with garlic. Roasting and mashing or chopping eggplant: To make baingan bharta eggplants are roasted on To get this smoky flavor, I suggest to roast the baingan on fire and not in the oven or microwave oven.
Steps to make Smoky Baingan Bharta / Eggplant bharta / smoked eggplant mashed:
- To begin the bharta first we need to grease the brinjal with a little oil, make slits all over the surface at equal intervals and insert the garlic in slits and roast over a flame for about 10-12 minutes. Place the brinjal on flame with continuous monitoring and turning the brinjal using tongs while it is roasting. When you notice the brinjal's skin begins to char and the inside begins to tender. (testing - insert a knife you feel the inside is soft and not hard. If hard, continue to roast).
- Allow the brinjal to cool a bit after roasting. Once the roasted brinjals are warn peel the charred skin and discard it. Coarsely mash the pulp using a fork or mince finely using a knife.
- Now chop the onion, tomato, garlic, green chilli, fresh cilantro and keep aside.
- Take a bowl add roasted and mashed brinjal, chopped onion, tomato, green chilli and mix well. Now, sprinkle red chilli powder, turmeric powder and don't mix now. Meantime, heat oil in a tadka pan when it's hot add hing and chopped garlic fry till it's brown and switch off the flame.
- Now take a spoon and drizzle this oil on red chilli, garam masala and turmeric powder, so that it is cooked too and mix it well. Add salt and some freshly chopped cilantro leaves.
- Heat a small piece of charcoal on flame till it becomes hot and red. Place the red hot charcoal in a small bowl or can directly place it on ready bharta. Add a few drops of oil or ghee on the charcoal. The charcoal would begin to smoke. As smoke begins to release cover the bowl tightly with a large plate or any tight lid. Allow to get infused the charcoal smoke for atleast 2 minutes. Then open and discard the charcoal and mix it well and garnish with remaining cilantro leaves.
- Serve this delicious smoky baingan bharta with roti / phulkas and dal rice to make a satisfactory meal.
Make a traditional Baingan Bharta or Eggplant Bharta easily in your Instant Pot. Follow this technique to get a wonderful smoky flavor without spending time to roast and char the eggplant. Jump to: Instant Pot Baingan Bharta Eggplant Dip. This easy baingan bharta recipe is going to be a sure shot hit at home! Baingan (eggplant/aubergine) is studded with garlic and roasted on an open flame, and then stir-fried with aromatics for the most delicious smoky flavor.
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