Brinjal Kosumalli / Mashed Brinjal Potato Curry

 Brinjal Kosumalli / Brinjal potato kosamalli is a very easy to prepare mashed brinjal potato curry made using brinjal, potato, tomato, sambar onion/shallots, tamarind and coriander leaves.Brinjal kosumalli  is a very tasty Chettinad style mashed brinjal potato curry /kosamalli curry and can be served as a side dish with idiyappam, idli, dosa, appam and steamed rice.Brinjal Kosumalli /Chettinadu style Mashed Brinjal Potato Curry recipe is given below with step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Brinjal Kosumalli / Chettinad Style Mashed Brinal Potato Curry.

Ingredients:-

Brinjal.                          -2
Potato.                           -2
Sambar onion/Shallots. -15
Tomato.                         -1 large
Green chillies.               -4
Dry red chillies.             -2
Tamarind.                       -small marble size
Mustard seeds.               -1tsp
Urad dal.                        -1tsp
Curry leaves.                  -1sprig
Coriander leaves.            -few
Salt.                                 -to taste
Oil.                                  -1tbsp

Instructions:-

1). Wash and clean brinjals and potatoes under running water and keep aside.

2). Remove the green stem attached to the brinjals and chop the brinjals into two halves lengthwise. Chop potato into big pieces. Pressure cook chopped brinjal pieces and potato pieces adding 2 cup of water and little salt for 3 whistles and switch off the flame.Once cooled transfer the cooked brinjal pieces and potato pieces from cooker to a bowl.Peel the outer skin of cooked brinjal pieces and potato pieces and mash them together and keep aside.

3). Peel the outer skin and chop sambar onion (shallots) into thin lengthy pieces. Half slit green chillies.Chop tomato into small pieces. Keep them on a plate along with few coriander leaves, 2 dry red chillies and a small marble size tamarind.

4). Soak small marble size tamarind in 1/2 cup of warm water for few minutes.Then squeeze and extract tamarind juice. Keep aside the extracted tamarind juice.

Method:-

1). Heat 1tbsp oil in a wide bottom pan and add urad dal. When urad dal starts to change its colour splutter mustard seeds. Add half slit green chillies, broken dry red chilli pieces and curry leaves into the pan and saute well in oil for a second.

2). Add thinly chopped sambar onion (shallots) into the pan and saute well for 2 minutes on low flame.

3). Add chopped tomato into the pan and saute well for 2 minutes on ow flame.

4). Add cooked and mashed brinjal potato mixture, required salt and 1/2 cup tamarind juice into the pan and mix well.

5). Add 2 and 1/2 cup of water into the pan and mix the brinjal potato tomato mixture and boil on low flame.Once the boiling bubbles starts to appear switch off the flame.

6). Add finely chopped coriander leaves into the pan.

 7). Mix well all the cooked ingredients in the pan. Brinjal kosumalli is ready.

 

8). Transfer the brinjal kosumalli /mashed brinjal potato curry to a serving bowl.

 

A very tasty Brinjal Kosumalli /Chettinad style Mashed Brinjal Potato Curry is ready to serve as a side dish with dosa, idli, idiyappam, appam and with steamed rice.