Dahi Baingan Recipe - Brinjal In Curd Based Gravy

Step 1: To begin making the Dahi Baingan Recipe (Brinjal In Curd Based Gravy), prepare all the ingredients, with chopping veggies and keeping all the other ingredients handy

Step 2: In a shallow frying pan, heat about 2 teaspoons of cooking oil, and saute all the brinjal cubes lightly without making them mushy, on a medium flame till the brinjals are browned

Step 3: Switch off and keep aside

Step 4: In a mixing bowl, mix curd (yogurt) and besan until there are no lumps

Step 5: Now add coriander powder, red chilli powder, fennel powder, garam masala, turmeric powder to the bowl and mix well

Step 6: Take a kadai and dry roast sesame seeds and dry red chillies

Step 7: Once they cool down to room temperature, blend them in a mixer to a fine powder

Step 8: Now take little oil in the same kadai, heat

Step 9: Once it is heated, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds

Step 10: Let it splutter

Step 11: Add split urad dal, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaf and wait for it to change color

Step 12: When color changes add curry leaves, allow them to splutter and add ginger garlic paste immediately and fry for a few seconds till the raw smell disappears

Step 13: Add finely sliced onions and fry on medium heat until onion i brownish

Step 14: Add sliced tomatoes and cook until they turn soft and mushy

Step 15: Once the tomatoes are cooked, add curd besan and spice powder mix from the bowl and fold till everything gets mixed well

Step 16: Now add the brinjal cubes which were previously sauteed and continue cooking for some more time till the masala gets seeped into the brinjal, by cooking covered and sauteing occasionally

Step 17: Add salt, mix, do a taste check and garnish the Dahi Baingan with coriander leaves and switch off heat

Step 18: You can serve Dahi Baingan Recipe (Brinjal In Curd Based Gravy) with Phulka Recipe or Pudina Tawa Paratha

Step 19: You can also serve it with mild Saffron Pilaf Recipe (Kesar Pulao)