Stuffed Brinjal curry is very easy to prepare and tastes delicious. Even those who do not like brinjals will love this stuffed curry. This is my version of preparing it. I have reduced the use of tamarind, instead I have used tomatoes. See to it that all the brinjals are of even size, so that it gets cooked evenly. Today we will learn how to prepare brinjal stuffed curry (kathirikai masala stuffed curry) following our easy recipe.
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Stuffed Brinjal Curry-Kathirikai Stuffed Curry
Prep Time : 15 mins
Cook Time : 30 mins
Serves: 4
Recipe Category: Side Dish-Brinjal Recipes
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Serves: 4
Recipe Category: Side Dish-Brinjal Recipes
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Brinjals -1/2 kg (small ones/ 500 grams)
Ripe Tomatoes- 2 big or 3 medium sized ones
Tamarind -very little (small gooseberry size)
Turmeric Powder -1/4 tsp
Salt to taste
Ingredients for Masala
Coriander seeds-2 tbsp
Bengal gram/Channa dal/kadali paruppu -2 tbsp
Red chillies-8
Cumin seeds/Jeera-1/2 tsp
Whole Black Pepper-1/2 tsp
For the seasoning
Oil – 3 tbsp
Mustard -1/2 tsp
Curry leaves -little
Preparation
Soak tamarind in 1/4 cup of hot water for 15 minutes and extract juice. Discard the pulp.
Fry the ingredients for masala in a tsp of oil and grind it to a fine powder.
Grind tomatoes and mix the ground powder with it, along with salt needed. Now the stuffing is ready.
Wash brinjals and make 2 slits to form a cross leaving the stalks intact. Stuff the brinjals with the prepared masala.
Method
Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a pan or heavy bottomed kadai and add the ingredients for seasoning.
When mustard splutters, add the stuffed brinjals, turmeric powder and cook on low flame sprinkling little water. Keep stirring in between for even cooking.
If you have any masala remaining, you can add that also to the curry and cook on low flame.
Extract 1/4 cup of tamarind juice and add to the brinjals after it is half cooked. Keep the flame low and cooked covered stirring from time to time.
Once the brinjals are cooked, switch off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves.
Kathirikai/brinjal stuffed curry is ready. It goes well as a side dish for chapati, parathas and rice.
Note– You can do this even in a pressure pan but do not use the weight.
Organic brinjals get cooked faster than the regular ones.
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Just made this dish today based on the recipe. It turned out very well. All the stuff eggplant dishes that I had made in the past used north-indian spices (garam masala, amchur). This recipe appealed to me because it would go with a south-indian meal. Thanks for posting this. Loved it.
very rare dish apart from usual curry recipe
thanks for posting
your kitchen garden is amazing
its amazing as all ur recipes are
hi, if i dont want to add tomatoes so what is the other option?
Meenakshi -Tamarind is the other option, if you do not want to add tomatoes.
Hi, wat is channa dal?
Chana dal is bengal gram in English and kadalai paruppu in tamil
While doing this sometimes the brinjal becomes hard. How to avoid that.
Vijiyalakshmi - It will not happen if you buy good quality brinjals. While selecting brinjals, press it and see, if it is hard as a rock , do not buy that.
In such cases of brinjal is getting hardened, cook it in a pressure pan until 1 whistle comes.
Make sure that you dont pressure cook brinjal in water.