Bagare Baingan or Baingan Kalonji Recipe - Stuffed Baby Eggplant Curry by Bhavna

peanuts

🥗Healthier: sunflower seeds

💰Cheaper: roasted chickpeas

Sunflower seeds provide similar crunch with fewer calories.

sesame seeds

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds offer a nutty flavor and are often less expensive.

tamarind

🥗Healthier: lemon juice

💰Cheaper: vinegar

Lemon juice adds acidity with lower cost.

coconut

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: coconut milk

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess.

Make a paste with all the stuffing ingredients. You may take a tbsp of water if you need to blend to a smooth paste.

Make a '+' slit in each brinjal, place stuffing as shown in the video and keep aside.

Add oil in a vessel, add mustard seeds and let them splutter. Add crushed garlic and curry leaves and toss them for a few seconds till the flavors come out.

Place the stuffed eggplants in the oil and cook on medium high flame for 2 minutes.

Add water. Cover with lid and let them cook on medium low flame for 15 minutes, checking in between and stir frying to ensure the brinjals don't burn or stick to the pan.

Remove lid and cook for another few minutes if it appears still watery. Let the brinjals cook till you achieve a thick gravy consistency.

Turn off heat.

Serve with rice or rotis.

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