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In the meantime, I desire to portion my latest experiment alongside eggplant. This spicy, stuffed too baked dish makes for a most satisfying vegetarian meal, especially when served alongside a steaming hot bed of rice. It is rather slow to ready too even hence some other excuse to warm the kitchen too your trunk besides because it has some extra boot to actually highlight the eggplant too vegetables that brand upward stuffing.
You probable volition convey to a greater extent than filling than y'all need, depending on the size of your eggplants. If y'all do, serve it along side the stuffed eggplant or salvage it for the side past times side solar daytime too serve over a grain of your choice.
| Baked Eggplant Stuffed alongside Curried Vegetables (Baingan ka Tikka) |
Recipe past times Lisa Turner
Cuisine: Indian
Published on December 22, 2012
Baked eggplant stuffed alongside spicy curried vegetables too mushrooms — a smashing side dish or low-cal dinner
Ingredients:
- 2 modest eggplants (1 pound or 450 g)
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon dark mustard seeds
- 2 teaspoons toor dal, rinsed (optional)
- 1 modest onion, finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1-inch spell fresh ginger, minced or grated
- 2 or three fresh greenish chilies, seeded too finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon terra firma coriander
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/2 teaspoon terra firma cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- pinch of asafetida (optional)
- 2 cups push clitoris mushrooms, chopped
- 2 medium tomatoes, seeded too finely chopped
- 1 loving cup fresh or frozen peas
- 1/2 teaspoon ocean salt, or to taste
Instructions:
Wash the eggplants, cutting of the stems, too spell them inwards one-half lengthwise. Scoop out the pulp out into a modest bowl, leaving most 1/4-inch of the flesh simply about the skin, taking assist non to puncture the skin. Roughly crush the pulp too laid aside. Preheat the oven to 400° too grease a broiling pan or baking sheet. Lightly tabular array salt the eggplant skins too identify them expression upward downwards on the prepared pan. Bake for most 10 to xv minutes on the middle rack of the oven until simply tender. Remove from the oven too laid aside to cool. To ready the filling, estrus the crude inwards a medium saucepan over medium heat. When hot, toss inwards the cumin seeds, mustard seeds too toor dal if using. Stir for thirty seconds or until the mustard seeds plow greyness too laid about to splutter too pop. Add the onion to the pan too stir for three to iv minutes or until the onion begins to soften too dark-brown simply about the edges. Now add together the garlic, ginger too chilies, stir for some other minute, hence add together the spices too asafetida if using too proceed to stir for some other infinitesimal or until the spices are fragrant. Turn the estrus upward slightly too add together the mushrooms. Stir for two to three minutes too hence add together the tomatoes too simmer for some other three to iv minutes. Stir inwards the eggplant pulp, fresh peas if using, too simmer for some other v minutes. The eggplant should survive simply tender. If y'all are using frozen peas, add together them right away too simmer for some other few minutes. Stir inwards ocean tabular array salt to sense of savour too withdraw from the heat. Preheat the oven to 350° too grease a baking dish alongside oil. Fill each of the eggplant skins alongside a generous total of the filling too transfer to the prepared pan. Bake for thirty minutes or until the tops laid about to dark-brown too the skins convey blackened a little. Remove from the oven too Sserve hot alongside a grain side too a leafy greenish salad.
Makes 4 servings |
More eggplant dishes from y'all may enjoy:
Baked Gingered Chickpea Stew alongside Eggplant too Spinach Eggplant Quinoa Bites alongside Pesto Stuffed Eggplant Poriyal Sumber http://foodandspice.blogspot.com/
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