I'm slowly starting to get wanderlust, especially for my second home and my Indian family. To bring some Indian flair into my everyday life and because I love Indian cuisine so much, I practice my favorite Indian dishes every week. Cooking is perfect for clearing my head, I pamper myself and earn a few brownie points with my mother-in-law!
I've loved "Baingan Ka Bharta" since I was a child. A curry made from smoky eggplant. Traditionally, the eggplant is roasted over a gas flame. If, like me, you don't have a gas stove, you can also roast the eggplant in the oven or on the grill. It's very important that it burns a little to give it that smoky flavor. So don't worry if the eggplants suddenly look black and charred. Have fun cooking!
Ingredients
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- 1 tbsp oil - 1 tbsp ghee or clarified butter - ¼ tsp turmeric - ½ tsp coriander powder - ½ tsp garam masala - ¼ tsp chili powder |
- 2 cloves of garlic - 1 cm piece of ginger - 2 eggplants - 4 tomatoes - 2 red onions - Fresh cilantro |
Preparation
- Halve the eggplants and roast them in the oven at 220° on aluminum foil, high up, for approx. 30 minutes until the skin is shriveled and slightly charred black.
- Finely dice garlic and ginger, dice onions, cut tomatoes into approx. 1cm cubes.
- Heat oil and ghee in a pot. Add onions and cook until golden.
- Add spices and stir for 30 seconds. Add garlic and ginger and sauté for another 30 seconds.
- Add tomatoes and cook for approx. 15 – 20 minutes until the tomatoes are cooked down to a puree and the oil separates slightly.
- Remove eggplants from the oven and let cool briefly. Scoop the soft flesh out of the skin with a spoon and cut into smaller pieces with a knife.
- Add the eggplant flesh to the tomato spice mixture and cook for another 5 minutes, combining well.
- Garnish with fresh cilantro and serve.
Katja Hahnloser-Nageshwaran
Katja Hahnloser-Nageshwaran is, together with her brother, the owner and managing director of Maison Gassmann. In addition to curating the assortment, she is the creative mind behind our visual and content presence, both digital and analog. Besides fashion and design, she is a passionate amateur photographer, travels extensively, is an employee of her dog Noé, and regularly commutes between India and Switzerland with her partner.
