Stuffed Brinjal

Preparation:30 mins
Cook: 20 mins
Total Time: 50 mins
Servings:

Ingredients

300 gms brinjals (baingan / eggplant)
3 onions
2 tomatoes
4 pods of garlic (lehsun)
curry leaves (kadi patta)
1/2 cup salted peanuts
2 tsp sambhar powder
1/2 cup oil
salt to taste

Method

Wash the brinjals and remove their stem. make a cross on the top and cut it till bottom of it, without breaking the brinjal into two.Keep them in salt water so they won''t turn into brown.Grind the peanuts, sambhar powder, salt,3 or 4 curry leaves and chopped garlic pods to a coarse powder.Dry the brinjals with a cloth and stuff them with ground powder. keep it aside.Heat a broad pan with oil and add chopped onions. saute till they become golden brown.Then add chopped tomatoes and keep sauting till it becomes soft.Then place the brinjals one by one with space between each of them.Sprinkle some water and cover the pan till the vegetable gets cooked.Keep turning the vegetable one by one till it gets cooked.Remove from fire and garnish with chopped coriander leaves.