Roasted Vankaya & Pudina Pachadi

Hi viewers

Today  I will share a yummy  and delicious chutney ie  roasted vankaya( brinjal) with a combination of pudina pachadi. Roasted brinjal pachadi is very different in taste to the where brinjal are chopped and cooked. Moreover, It enhance the taste with a combination of my kitchen garden pudina. Pudina / mint leaves enhance the flavor of this vankaya pachdi. See the mouth watering taste.

The big blakish purple color brinjal is used for this pachadi.

It takes little more time to cook. We need patience to cook good dishes. Don't look at the time, instead look for a good dish.

Try by yourself  and see the taste.

INGREDIENTS

• Brinjal                                         1 (black purple)
• Pudina/mint                                 handful
• Tamarind pulp                             3 tbsp
• Jaggery powder                           2 tbsp
• Green chillies                               5
• Dry red chillies                             6
• Onion                                            1 big ( chopped roughly)
• Cumin seeds                                 1/2 tbsp
• Oil
• Turmeric powde
• curry leaves
• salt 

FOR TEMPERING

• Urad dal
• Mustard seed
• Hing
• Curry leaves

HOW TO PREPARE

1. Wash mint leaves and keep aside.
2. Coat brinjal with little oil and roast on low flame directly.
3. The skin of the brinjal becomes charred.
4. Make sure that brinjal is cooked well.
5. Scrape the skin, mash it in a large bowl. It is easy to mash and set aside.
6. Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a wok.
7. Add cumin seeds , green chillies and red chillies.
8. Let them fry for 2 minutes.
9. Make it cool.
10. Grind it. Then add jaggery, tamarind pulp and salt into a coarse paste.
11. Don't add water while grinding.
12. Add this coarse paste to the mash brinjal pulp.
13. Add chopped raw onion and mix well.
14. Finally take popu pan, add 1 tbsp oil. Let it heat.
15. Add mustard seeds,let them pop. Then add urad dal, when turns brown add hing and curry leaves.
16. Switch of the stove and mix this popu into into vankaya & pudina pachadi.                          
    

Now vankaya and pudina pachadi is ready to serve. It goes well with  hot hot rice with dollop of ghee.
You can take this with roti , dosa and upma etc.
 
          Note-   Mixing of chopped onion is optional.

          Meet you all again with another yummy recipe till then bye from Kusuma    from Kusuma's Abiruchi.