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.
Prep Time 5 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 25 minutes mins
Course Veg, veg curry
Cuisine Indian, South Indian
- 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
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.
Keyword Brinjal Curry, Ennai Kathirikai Kuzhambu / Eggplant Curry