Roasted Eggplant Subzi
Here is a super healthy Eggplant recipe that will have you craving for more. we love this subzi and i make it quite often.
Ingredients:
Eggplant/Brinjal/Aubergine/Baingan – 1 (approx 500gm)
Oil – 1 tbsp
Asafoetida – tsp
Onion – 1/2 large or 1 medium
Garlic – 3-4 large
Green Chillies – to taste, finely chopped
Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tsp
Salt – to taste
Lime/ Lemon Juice – to taste
Cilantro – 10 sprigs, finely chopped
Method:1
1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees F (approx 200 degrees C).
2. Line the baking pan with foil.
3. Coat the Eggplant with a little Oil and bake it for 1 hour.
4. Once out of the oven, allow it to cool down and trim off the stem portion.
5. Peel the skin off and transfer the flesh/meat to another bowl.
6. Roughly chop so that there it is not fiberous.
7. In a pan, heat Oil.
8. Add in Asafoetida(optional) and right after that add in the Onions, Garlic, Green Chillies and Turmeric Powder.
9. Add in some Salt, mix well and allow them it to cook till the Onions get a little translucent.
10. Add in the Eggplant and allow it to heat up all the way through.
11. Add in Lemon/Lime Juice and Cilantro. Mix well.
12. Serve hot with Chapatis or Parathas or even rice.
Method 2:
you can cook the eggplant in microwave also.
Wash the eggplant, drizzle a drop or two of oil.
poke in 2-3 palces in the eggplant with the knife.
This will help cook eggplant faster and also the steam of the juice in eggplant can come out easily.
Then keep it in a microwave safe bowl. and cook on 100% power for 3-4 minutes.
Once done, turn the eggplant and cook the other side repeating the same procedure
Depending upon the size of your eggplant, it should be cooked completely in 10 minutes !!
Method :3
You can also roast the egg plant by simply placing the eggplant directly on the stove/ flame. keep turing so that it cooks evenly. rub some oild before roasting.
I follow method 2 and 3.
