Cooking eggplant with tomato and onions

Because of popular demand, I'm cooking this eggplant dish for our guests from abroad.

(This is one out of two dishes I have to cook tonight)

They maybe known as eggplant in North America and Australia, aubergine in British English, but we used to call it garden eggs when we were growing up in Africa.

Don't they resemble eggs?

Cut them either in half or quarters, so that they are more or less the same size

Soak the aubergines in water for about half an hour, then drain out.

This is done to remove the bitter stuff that can be itchy



Marinade with cumin powder, salt, Kashmiri chilli powder and turmeric, and set aside for at least an hour

Fry in hot oil

While the frying is in process get the rest of the ingredients ready for the curry

(In addition to what's shown below, there's also turmeric, Kashmiri chilli powder, cumin powder,

salt, and sugar)

Set aside all the fried eggplant ... 

Get the tomato, tamarind, ground garlic and ginger, tomato paste and green chillies all ready

The rest of the process you cannot watch and learn even from a YouTube video!

You have to be in the kitchen

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Here's what it looks like in the end ...

... now on to the next dish!


Btw here is another recipe, and an easier way to cook eggplant