Ennai Kathirikai Kuzhambu / Eggplant Curry
Ennai Kathirikai Kuzhambu / Eggplant Curry is a popular and traditional south Indian curry. This Curry is packed with flavors of stuffed masala spicy, tamarind, and tomato sourness, a pinch of sweetness from jaggery, the oil that comes out from roasted brinjal gives you the flawless taste.
Ingredients
- 2 Nos Big Onion (Medium size)
- 1 No Tomato ( Big size)
- 5 tbsp HomemadeKuzhambu Masala Adjust the masala quantity according to your spice level
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 500 Grams Brinjal /Egg Plant /Kathirikai (small size)
- 1 Tightly packed Tamarind ball (Indian lemon size)
- 1/2 inch Pinch of jaggery
- 2 sprigs curry leaves
- 5 tbsp Gingerly oil
- 10 Nos Garlic (optional)
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Take a Lemon sized Tamarind in a bowl, soak well with 1 cup of hot water for 10 min. squeeze the tamarind and extract the water. Remove the pulp. and keep it aside.
- Take a bowl, add 3 tbsp of Homemade Kuzhambu Masala , salt, little water to make a paste. Cut X mark cut on the eggplant and stuff the masala paste into the x mark cut. and leave it for 10 min.
- In medium Flame. Heat a pan, add 4 tbsp of gingelly oil . once the oil gets heated up, add the stuffed brinjals /Egg plant and fry and cook it till 50% and remove the fried brinjals and keep it aside.
- In the same pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves to the oil. Once the mustard seeds popped out. add the chopped onions , garlic , salt, saute well until the onion becomes glossy. then add chopped tomatoes and saute well until the tomatoes are mushy.
- Once the tomatoes get mushy, Add 2 tbsp of MULTIPURPOSE KUZHAMBU MILAGAI PODI RECIPE. Mix the masala well for a min with the onion tomato gravy.
- Add the tamarind water to the curry and mix well and cook for about 10 min.At this point, you can adjust the water consistency of kuzhambu as you need. I added 1 cup of plain water to it and mixed it well.
- Keep the flame in low, add the fried eggplants. mix and cook until the oil gets separated. Once the oil gets separated , add a pinch of jaggery to it
- After adding jaggery , mix and cook for about 1-2 min . Turn off the Flame . Yummy, spicy Ennai Kathirikai Kuzhambu / Eggplant Curry is ready to serve.