Name: Eggplant Thovayal
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 2 nos Red chillies; 1 no Onion (small); 2 nos Tomato (plum); 3 - Garlic pods; 1 or Coriander leaves; 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder; 5 nos Eggplants (small); Oil (As reqd); Salt (As reqd); Mustard seeds; Black gram(Uzhunnuparippu/Urad dhal); Curry leaves

Eggplant Thovayal

Best combination for variety rice, rotis & crispy dosai

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Prep Time 20

Total Time 20

Cuisine Tamil

Servings people

Ingredients

2 nos Red chillies
1 no Onion small
2 nos Tomato plum
3 - Garlic pods
1 or Coriander leaves
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
5 nos Eggplants small
Oil As reqd
Salt As reqd

For seasoning:-

Mustard seeds
Black gram(Uzhunnuparippu/Urad dhal)
Curry leaves

Instructions

Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan.
Fry red chillies.
Add chopped onion and garlic.
Add tomatoes and coriander leaves.
Saute it often and cover it.
Cut eggplant into small pieces and put this in a bowl and microwave it for 2 - 3 mins.
Add this to onion mixture and fry it very well untill the smell goes.
Add salt and turmeric powder and switch off the stove and let it cool.
Grind this mixture coarsely(not fully).
In a separate pan, add 1 tbsp of oil and splutter mustard seeds and urad dhal.
Add curry leaves and saute.
Pour this to egg plant thovayal and stir it.
:- Serve for rotis, variety rice or dosai.

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Response (2)

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nagima February 15, 2008

very tasty for varity rice.thanks..,

J

Jee June 24, 2009

hi The recipe was really delicious. But there could be some vegetables to bite into.. so may be, u could divide the portion n just mash one half of it.