Baingan Bharta

Steps in our own plain words.

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   Rinse the baingan in water.

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   Pat dry with a kitchen napkin.

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   Apply some oil all over.

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   Keep it for roasting on open flame.

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   Too grill your baingan or roast in the oven.

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   But then you won't get.

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   The smoky flavor of the baingan.

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   Keep your eggplant turning after a 2 to 3 min on the flame, so that its, cooked.

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   You could too embed some garlic cloves in the baingan.

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    Roast it, 2.

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    Roast the aubergine till its fully cooked and tender.

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    With a knife check the doneness.

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    The knife should slid.

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    Easily in aubergines without any resistance.

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    Remove your baingan plus immerse in bowl of water till it cools, down.

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    Too do your dhungar technique of infusing smoky flavor in the baingan.

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    This is an optional step.

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    Use natural charcoal for this method.

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    Heat a little piece of charcoal.

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    Do it on flame till it smoking hot and red, 4.

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    Make little cuts on the baingan with a knife.

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    Place your red hot charcoal in same plate where the roasted.

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    Aubergine is kept.

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    Add some drops of oil on the charcoal.

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    The charcoal would begin to smoke, 5.

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    Wait until smoke begins to release from the charcoal.

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    Cover the entire plate tightly with a big bowl.

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    Let the, charcoal smoke.

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    Do it to get infused for 1 to 2 min.

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    Your more you do, your more smoky the baingan bharta will, become.

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    I keep for a minute.

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    Alternatively, you can too do this dhungar method when the baingan bharta is, 6.

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    Peel your skin from the roasted and smoked eggplant.

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    Chop your cooked eggplant or you can even mash it, 8.

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    Heat oil in a kadai or pan.

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    Add finely chopped onions and garlic, 9.

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    Cook the onions till translucent.

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    Don't brown them, 10.

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    Add chopped green chilies.

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    Cook for a minute, 11.

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    Add the chopped tomatoes.

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    Mix it well, 12.

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    Bhuno your tomatoes till your oil starts separating from the mixture, 13.

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    Add the red chili powder.

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    Stir.

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    Mix well, 14.

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    Add the chopped cooked baingan, 15.

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    Stir.

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    Mix the chopped baingan very fully with the onion­tomato masala mixture, 16.

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    Season with salt.

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    Stir.

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    Cook for some more 4 to 5 min more, 17.

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    Mix in your coriander leaves using your baingan bharta or garnish it with them.

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    Serve Baingan Bharta with.

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    Phulkas, rotis or chapatis.

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    It goes fully even using bread, toasted or grilled bread plus plain rice or jeera rice.