Recipe: At Home Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha

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Recipe: At Home Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha. The only scary and time-consuming part in this whole thing is roasting the eggplant, on the open flame, till it is charred. This preparation is quite similar to the famous North Indian dish Baingan ka Bharta, but Begun Pora has its own taste and flavour of Bengal totally different from Bharta. Image : Begun Pora Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha #indiankitchen.

The only scary part in this whole thing is roasting the eggplant, on the open flame, till it is charred and your smoke alarm starts ringing and the sprinklers go on and there are good looking firefighters ringing your door bell.

Begun Pora is a very tasty and strongly flavoured Bengali cuisine made of eggplant.

Begun pora is an authentic preparation eaten in Bengal as part of everyday meal.

You can have Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha

  1. You need 4 of medium aubergine.

  2. You need 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.

  3. You need 1 tablespoon of mustard oil or any cooking oil.

  4. It’s 1/2 cup of chopped tomatoes.

  5. It’s 2 of onions chopped.

  6. It’s 2-3 of green chillies.

  7. It’s 1 tablespoon of minced garlic or fresh green garlic.

  8. Prepare 1/2 cup of chopped coriander.

  9. Prepare to taste of Salt.

It is healthy, tasty and simple.

This dish is very similar to Baingan ka Bharta but not the same.

It is an easy fix for dinner with rotis.

Ingredients for Begun Pora Recipe Beguner Bhorta / Begun Pora aka Bengali Style Baigan Bharta, is a very simple and elegant dish.

Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha step by step

  1. Roast the aubergine on gas until soft and skin charred. Keep rotating to cook even. Alternatively you can roast the aubergine in an oven as well..

  2. Cool, remove the skin, mash with a fork Peel the eggplant and mash it with fork..

  3. Heat oil in a pan and add chopped onions, garlic and green chillies and sauté until onion gets soft and gets caramelised. Add tomatoes and salt to taste and cook for a minute..

  4. Add the mashed aubergine and cook until all liquid from aubergine is absorbed. Finally add lemon juice and mix well. Remove and transfer in serving dish and garnish with coriander..

  5. Serve with any Indian flatbread,naan or pita chips..

Unlike the North Indian mashed eggplant, we do not cook the eggplant after roasting.

We char the eggplant and then simply mix this with the other ingredients with some salt and serve the dish.

ABOUT Begun pora (eggplant roast) RECIPE.

An easy recipe of baingan bharta, that can be served with some roti.

Veg; Easy; Everyday; West Bengal; Roasting; Side Dishes; Healthy.