Lehsuni Baingan Tawa Fry Recipe | Garlic Brinjal Fry Indian Style
Lehsuni Baingan Tawa Fry Recipe is a delicious, flavourful Indian side dish made with eggplant, garlic and aromatic spices, perfect for everyday meals.
Ingredients
- 1 big eggplant
- 6 dry red chilies
- 4-6 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp coriander seeds
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp mustard oil
Instructions
- Take dry red chilies in a bowl.
- Add warm water and let them remain soaked for 10-15 minutes.
- In the meantime, wash and cut eggplant into slices, which should neither be too thick not too thin.
- Make criss cross cuts on one side of the slice but make sure not to cut all the way through.
- Likewise make the same pattern of very light cuts on other side as well.
- Now take the chilies out of water and add to mortal along with garlic and coriander seeds.
- Crush them well. If you don't have mortal, you can do the same in grinder jar as well.
- Also add salt and mustard oil.
- Crush everything so well.
- Apply this crushed masala on one side of the brinjal slices.
- Brush mustard oil on a non stick tawa or pan.
- Place the masala applied side of brinjal towards the tawa.
- Now apply the chili garlic masala on upper side as well.
- Cover and cook on low heat for 5-7 minutes or until slice is cooked underneath.
- Remove the lid and drizzle bit of mustard oil on all the slices.
- Carefully invert them.
- Cook uncovered from other side as well until done.
- Lehsuni Baingan Tawa Fry is ready. Enjoy with rice or roti.
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Notes
- Big size aubergine/brinjal/eggplant are suitable for this recipe, which we mainly used for making baingan ka bharta. However different varieties of eggplant can be used, provided they are suitable for slicing and tawa frying.
- There's no need to precook the mustard oil before using. However you can use any other cooking oil as well.
- Spice level is high in this recipe but you can balance that by using less chilies.
- As it is a lehsuni Baingan Tawa Fry, you can add any number of garlic cloves depending upon your liking for garlic.
- This recipe is using very limited ingredients and spices to coat on brinjal slices, but you can also add coconut, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, peanuts along with more basic spices like turmeric and garam masala. Addition of these ingredients will not just lower the spiciness but will also add volume to the spread.