To cook baby brinjal:🔗

For Tempering:

• 1. Take the rice and clean it (removing impurities). Completely drain the water.
• 2. Then add the ghee and turmeric powder to the rice.Heat the water and mix the rice and boil till it gets cooked properly. Put the rice in a lead coated vessel. Let it cool.
• 3. Separately take the ingredients to roast using little ghee for each and grind it separately. Then mix all the powder into one.
• 4. Also mix the grated dry coconut and powdered crystal salt to the above mixture and grind it once. Then divide the spice mixture or curry into two equal portions.
• 5. Take a lead coated vessel , add the tamarind and water. Squeeze the tamarind as much u can and extract the juice out of it. Discard the seed and pulp. To this add one half of the curry or spice mixture and mix it.
• 6. Take the baby brinjal and cut ¾ th of the stem. Make 4 slits in each brinjal without cutting into halves. Fill the slit with equal amount of tamarind spice mixture and prepare it.
• 7. Take a vessel which is rust free and which can hold 300 palam of water. Add the ghee and heat it. Then add the red chilly,mustard seeds,bengal gram,black gram and temper based on the way prescribed in the 22nd recipe.
• 8. Finally add the baby brinjal filled with the tamarind spice mixture to the tempering. Then sprinkle water on the brinjal, cover it and cook. Repeat the process after some time by sprinkling some more water till the brinjal is ¾th cooked.
• 9. Mix turmeric powder and water. Let it boil. Then add rice and boil till it gets half cooked.
• 10. Add the baby brinjal to the rice . When the rice is ¾ cooked add the remaining half of the curry or spice mixture and give a stir.
• 11. Lastly add the ghee to the rice and keep the rice in a low flame for 4 minutes and serve.

84. Maharashtra Baby Brinjal Rice

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