Dry Brinjal Fry is an exotic side-dish of Carnatic cuisine. It is very crispy, crunchy and delicious and easy to cook.
Try your hands on this delicacy and tell us how it tasted.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- ½ tsp turmeric / haldi
- pinch of hing / asafoetida
- 2 tbsp besan / gram flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 brinjal / baingan / eggplant, thickly sliced
- oil for deep frying
- ¼ cup rava / semolina / sooji
- ½ tsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
- firstly, in a large mixing bowl take 1 tbsp chilli powder, ½ tsp turmeric, pinch of hing, 2 tbsp gram flour and ½ tsp salt.
- combine well making sure the spices are mixed.
- now add 2 tbsp water and prepare a masala paste.
- add in 1 brinjal thickly slices and coat with masala paste.
- coat well and rest for 20 minutes.
- meanwhile prepare rava mixture by mixing ¼ cup rava, ½ tsp chilli powder and ¼ tsp salt.
- now coat the marinated baingan with rava on both sides.
- shallow fry or pan fry in hot oil.
- fry on low flame making sure to cook well.
- now flip over and cook brinjal on both the sides. do not over cook as then brinjal will loose shape.
- finally, serve brinjal fry recipe with roomali roti.