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Spicy Masala Roasted Baby Eggplant

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Spicy Roasted Baby Eggplant_-4This time, I cut them in half and then made criss cross cuts on each face for masalas to get in. Then stuffed a spice mix made of roasted kashmiri chillies, fennel seeds, peanuts and sesame seeds. It is an extremely easy vegan eggplant recipe. Baby eggplants are absolutely delicious cooked anyway.

It is perfect for rice or roti. I love this recipe because you don’t have to chop anything much other than eggplant. And it is very quick to make this. I dint know what to make today. Thought for a while and made this today as I dint have patience to stand in the kitchen more than 30 minutes today. I tried this and it turned out so roasted and beautiful. Anybody would love to make quick lunch or dinner, if they are given an option. So, these days I am trying to make a lot of quick recipes. This recipe is good only for the smell tender eggplants. You can surely use the big eggplant, but I am not sure how it will turn out. This recipe taste good for the small eggplants because of the cutting style and the roasting style.

I know these days everyone wants to make the stuffed ones. I love them too and I have the recipe here. Sometime I want everything simple, quick and comforting.

Brinjal is one of the low calorie vegetable when it comes with antioxidants, magnesium but it takes a lot of oil. So add as much of oil you want and do not add more, so make it with the same amount of oil and roast it.  have few more eggplant recipes if you would like to have a look – Masala Stuffed Baby Eggplants/Ennai Kathirikkai,Roasted eggplant mozzarella pasta and Honey garlic EGgplant.

This roast is perfect for rice and tomato rasam/Buttermilk rasam/dal/sambar!

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Spicy Masala Roasted Baby Eggplant
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Recipe type: Indian
Cuisine: Main
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Serves: 2 cups
 
Ingredients
  • • Small Eggplant/ Kathirikkai – 12
  • • Curry leaves – 1 sprig
  • • Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
  • • Salt – 1 tbsp
  • • Oil – 2 tbsp
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    [To grind:]
  • • Red chilly – 6
  • • Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
  • • Fennel seeds – 2 tsp
  • • Peanuts – 2 tbsp
  • • Sesame seeds – 2 tbsp
  • • Coriander Seeds – 1 tbsp
Instructions
  1. Roast the under “to grind” in medium flame for 2 minutes and blend them smoothly.
  2. Remove the ends/stems of the eggplant and cut into half lengthwise. Put a slit in the middle of the eggplant and soak them in water until you cook. Slitting helps in masala’s to get in.
  3. Heat a wide pan with oil and, add the curry leaves.
  4. Now add the eggplants to it. Add the ground paste,turmeric powder,salt and add 3 tbsp of water. Mix it well and cover it for 7-8 minutes.
  5. After 7-8 minutes, open the pan, the water would have evaporated and now turn the eggplant to the other side and cook it uncovered in medium heat till both sides get evenly roasted.
  6. Switch it off and serve with some hot rice and dal.
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Lamb Vindaloo

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Lambvindaloo-5A Classic Indian spicy thick curry made with lamb meat in vinegar and spices!

It tastes great with steamed rice. I heard this recipe as a Portuguese recipe and people started to change it and made it Indian. This gravy is colorful, flavorful and it’s perfect with ghee rice or roti. I always had this on my list to do for a long time. I have always seen “lamb/chicken vindaloo” in the Indian restaurants. So, it was pending for a long time. It is very famous here and I have seen my friends order this. So I wanted to post this recipe. The name looks complicated but super easy to prepare. Then prepared it, but took a long time to post it. I finally got some time to post this recipe. You can use the slow cooker for this recipe or use a pressure cooker or even cook in the pan for a long time. You can always cook this vindaloo recipe with chicken, prawn, potatoes or fish.

People tend to cook more chicken or beef as few people tend to get intimidated by it and think it involves a lot of hard work to cook lamb. It is really easy and quick to make lamb. For Indian recipes, you can pressure cook it for 4-5 whistles before adding them to the gravy. And if you are baking it, seal it and roast it in pan and bake according to the way you want the lamb to be cooked. For every 500g of meat, a rough guide to cooking your lamb in an oven is about 40 minutes for well done, Medium is about 30 minutes, Medium rarely is about 25 minutes and rare is about 20 minutes. Everyone has his or her own preference of cooking the lamb. I always feel lamb recipes are easy to make and taste great. You have to be careful with the oil you use as lamb itself oozes out oil from its fat.

Other favorite Lamb recipes: Spicy Honey Garlic rack Of lamb, Lamb spinach curry/Saag gosht, Kadai Ghost/Lamb curry, Hyderabadi Lamb Biryani, Restaurant style lamb biryani, Lamb pepper curry roast, Mutton Sukka/goat curry, lamb shami kabab, mutton biryani

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Lamb Vindaloo
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 3 cups
 
Ingredients
  • Lamb – 500 gms, cut into small pieces
  • Dry red chillies – 10
  • Vinegar – 2 tbsp
  • Poppy seeds/khus khus – ½ tsp
  • Black peppercorns – 8
  • Cloves – 5
  • Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
  • Cardamom pods - 3
  • Green chillies -4
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  • Fennel seeds – 1 tsp
  • Ginger – ¼ inch
  • Garlic – 6
  • Cinnamon – 1 inch
  • Vegetable oil – 3.5 tbsp
  • Onions – 2 medium, finely sliced
  • Salt – to taste
  • Coriander leaves – to Garnish
  • Lemon lime – 1 tbsp juice
Instructions
  1. Soak red chillies, turmeric powder, black peppercorns, poppy seeds, cloves, green chillies, cardamom pods, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, ginger, garlic, cinnamon in vinegar and 2 tbsp of oil for 30 minutes.

  2. Blend these soaked spices with vinegar and oil also into a fine paste.
  3. Take your lamb pieces into a bowl and add required amount of salt. Apply the blended paste to the lamb pieces and marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight.

  4. I cooked the marinated lamb in a pressure cooker for 5 whistles but you can cook in a pan for 45 minutes or even slow cooker for 2-3 hours.
  5. Heat oil/ghee in a pressure cooker, add the onion slices, sauté them till golden brown in color. Add the marinated lamb in it. Sauté them for a minute. Then add 2.5 cups of water or add water till the lamb is almost covered. Let it go for 5 whistles. Switch off,wait for the pressure to release, open and mix well. If you find it the consistency to be watery, open it and cook for 5-7 minutes. I did open and boiled it for 5-7 minutes over medium heat.
  6. Garnish with coriander leaves and squeeze some lime on it.
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Perfect with ghee rice/ plain rice and Mumbai-style egg  bhurji.

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