Brinjal (Eggplant) Puli Pachadi

Ingredients:

• one big Brinjal
• 1 cup tamarind water or 1 tab tamarind paste
• 2 red chilly
• 1/4 sp asafetida powder
• 1/2 sp Mustard
• Curry leaves
• 1 sp chopped coriander leaves
• Salt
• 1 sp Oil

Method:

• Coat oil over eggplant, and grill or bake it in an oven or gas stove.
• Put it in water for a while.
• Now peel and mash eggplant and check it.
• Mash it and keep it aside.
• Fry mustard seeds, asafetida and curry leaves in oil.
• Mix this with mashed eggplant.
• Add tamarind water or tamarind paste and salt to the above, and mix everything together.
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
• This will go very well with Rice Rava Uppma or Bombay Rava Uppma.

Notes:

• If you use tamarind water, again keep it on the fire and bring it to a boil. then use.