I love this version of my aubergines. Never knew I could mix it with curd until I stumbled on it by choice. So taking a detour from my normal routine playing around with these veggies, I did this Baingan/Brinjal/Aubergines raitha a couple of days back.
As always I sliced them very thinly and then coated them well with sambhar spice powder and set them aside for a while. You can use turmeric if you prefer that. But for more spice, rubbing them with the sambhar powder is a heavenly delight!
Did I say curd, Oh yes nice, lovely curd. There was an occasion recently and during the lunch session we were offered these mud pots/matkis filled with curd to the brim. I just loved that sight and both the husband (under my strict instruction ha ha) and I brought these cuties back with us as I just couldn't have the curd then. Unlike the curd I have at home, this was really sour and I felt it was perfect for this recipe.
The marinated slices of aubergines were later sauteed over a griddle until it got this soft texture and once it cooled down a bit, I quartered them on my chopping board and slid them into my well- beaten and adequately salted curd. Drowned them in the curd mix such that only the white of the curd could be seen and one had to do some undercurd diving to find those cuties.
In a smaller sauce pan, a tempering/tadka was done with a tbsp of oil in which a tbsp or more cumin seeds crackled along with a finely chopped onion. I am very bad at chopping things finely despite having a mechanical thingie for dicing them finely. A pinch of asafoetida/hing was also added to the tempering and while it is hot and browned, it was thrown in hot into the raitha mixed with our quartered aubergines. Stir through so that the tempering would merge well with the curd
I left one or two sauteed brinjals whole to decorate like so. Placed them over the aubergine raitha.
It was so Yumm!!!with some rotis/naans.Made some crudities with bell peppers and grilled a few onions after halving them. I love the charred look of the onions on my plate.
Garnished with finely chopped cilantro...ha ha "finely" in my dictionary has a different meaning altogether! Within my chubby fingers, nothing turns out fine...Oh yeah! I assure you the dish does turn out fine. Enjoy folks!
Doing some massive blogging of all my pending recipes before I lose all the lovely pics I took. The following week will take its own toll on me with another busy schedule at hand and some more interesting travel.
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