Boiled Eggplant Mash / Boiled Purple Brinjal Mash

 Boiled eggplant mash is a very tasty spicy and little tangy curry made with eggplant /purple brinjal and goes well with rice.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Boiled Eggplant Mash / Boiled Purple Brinjal Mash.

Ingredients:-

Eggplant /Brinjal.-2
Dry red chilly.     -4
Tamarind.            -gooseberry size
Asafoetida.          -1/2 tsp
Salt.                     -to taste

For Seasoning:-

Mustard seeds.-1/2 tsp
Curry leaves.   -few
Coconut oil.    -1tsp

Instructions:-

1). Heat little coconut oil in a small pan and roast dry red chillies till crisp on low flame and keep aside. 

2). Soak a gooseberry size tamarind in little water for few minutes. Squeeze and extract tamarind pulp. In a mixer grinder add roasted red chillies, tamarind pulp and required salt and grind to a smooth paste.Keep aside the ground red chilly tamarind paste

3). Wash eggplants / purple brinjals and cut each into 4 lengthy pieces. In a vessel add chopped eggplant pieces and add sufficient water to immerse the eggplant pieces. Boil and cook eggplant pieces till soft. Switch off the flame and remove the boiled eggplant pieces from boiled water. Keep aside the boiled water and boiled eggplant pieces to cool.

Method:-

1). Peel and remove the outer skin of boiled and cooled eggplant pieces and put them again into the vessel. Mash the boiled eggplant pieces thoroughly using your hand. Add the boiled and cooled water into the vessel and mix the mashed eggplants and make a thick consistency.

2). Add ground red chilly tamarind paste into the vessel and mix with the mashed eggplants.

3). Add required salt and asafoetida (hing powder) into the vessel and mix well.

4). Heat 1tsp coconut oil in a small pan for seasoning and splutter mustard seeds. Add few curry leaves and fry in oil for a second. Switch off the flame and pour the seasoning over the spicy and tangy mashed eggplants in the vessel and mix well.

Very tasty spicy and little tangy Boiled Eggplant Mash / Boiled Purple Brinjal Mash is ready to serve with rice.