Dahi Baingan/Dahi Baigana

Dahi baingana is a traditional Oriya recipe prepared simply with yogurt, deep fried eggplants and tempered with mustard seeds, curry leaves. This eggplant in yogurt sauce is spiced simply with chopped green chillies, roasted cumin powder and thinly sliced ginger. Served along with a hot steaming rice, you can have this incredible dish or else simply as a snack if you love eggplants. This dahi baigana gets ready very much quickly than you can imagine. One of the easiest and the simplest dish i have ever cooked with eggplants. Many varieties of dahi baigana exists, i went on searching for a prefect traditional Odiya style dahi baigana and finally i landed to Oriya Food and loved the simplicity of this dish.

You may wonder am talking about this dish, yes the theme for this week's blogging marathon is Dishes with eggplants, obviously my next dishes are going to be eggplant based dishes and i picked beautiful dishes from the list given by Srivalli. If you are planning to make a different, easy peasy dish with eggplants dont hesitate a second to give a try to this lipsmacking dish which goes for deep fried eggplants. We loved it and am sure you guys will definitely love this dish very well too, dont forget to give a try.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#57.

1no Medium Eggplant
1cup Yogurt (well beaten)
1tsp Chili powder
1/4tsp Turmeric powder
2tbsp Gram flour
1tsp Roasted Cumin Powder
pinch of Black salt
Salt
1tsp Grated ginger
1tsp Mustard seeds
2no Green chillies
Few Curry leaves

Cut the eggplant into thin long slices. Add the turmeric powder, chili powder, salt and gram flour, mix well.

Keep aside for 15 minutes.

Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the eggplant pieces to a golden brown color and drain the excess of oil with a paper towel.

Take the yogurt in a serving dish, add salt,black salt and roasted cumin powder and mix well.

Heat little oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds. Add green chillies and grated ginger and curry leaves.

Pour the tempered spiced to the yogurt mixture.

Finally add the eggplants to the yogurt mixture.

Top it with roasted cumin powder and red chili powder.