Pita Saga Bati Basa Recipe

Step 1: To begin making the Pita Saga Bati Basa recipe, take a deep frying pan or wok

Step 2: Roast the badis (sun-dried lentil dumpling) and crush roughly into small pieces

Step 3: Now chop onion finely and keep aside

Step 4: Next cut eggplant, potato and tomato into smaller cubes and keep aside

Step 5: Put mustard seeds, cumin seeds, garlic cloves and green chilies in a blender jar and make a smooth paste

Step 6: But authentically, all the things are put in a mortar-pestle made of stone and then crush and grind to the smooth paste

Step 7: Take the same deep frying pan or wok

Step 8: Add in chopped pita saga (glinus oppositifolius), paste, chopped onion, cubed eggplant, cubed potato and tomato, salt, turmeric and mustard oil

Step 9: Mix everything very well preferably by hand

Step 10: Cover with a lid and cook for 10-12 minutes on low flame stirring in between

Step 11: After some time, all the veggies'll become a bit mushy

Step 12: Add roughly crushed badis and give a quick mix

Step 13: Cover the lid and switch of the flame

Step 14: Let it be covered for 2 to 3 minutes, so that the flavours infused with badis

Step 15: Serve Pita Saga Bati Basa along with Steamed Rice and Kachumber salad for a weekday lunch