Recipe: Tasty Methi Brinjal Fry

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Recipe: Tasty Methi Brinjal Fry Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Methi Brinjal Fry. Menthi Podi Veysina Vankaya Kura is a Andhra-style Brinjal fry that is spiced with a fenugreek flavoured lentil powder. It tastes best with baby brinjals but can be made with thin, long, purple brinjals. Check out the preparation of Vankaya Methi Curry Recipe in Telugu.

No special occasion is complete without serving this scrumptious curry along with the entire meal.

Baby brinjals are cooked with tamarind, cooled, stuffed with spice powder and fried.

You have to be very delicate while handling the brinjals not to break them apart.

You can cook Methi Brinjal Fry using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Methi Brinjal Fry

  1. You need 1 bunches of methi leaves.

  2. Prepare 3 of Brinjal.

  3. Prepare 1 of onion.

  4. You need 1 of tomato.

  5. Prepare 3 of green chill.

  6. Prepare 1 tsp of Ginger, garlic pieces.

  7. Prepare 1 Tbsp of Red chilli powder.

  8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Turmeric powder.

  9. You need 3 Tbsp of oil.

  10. Prepare 1/4 tsp of Asafoetida.

  11. You need 1 tsp of mustard seed.

  12. It’s 1 tsp of cumin seeds.

  13. It’s As needed of Salt.

Brinjal Methi/Fenugreek curry/fry with simple and easy way and it goes well with Rice/Roti.

Methi saag bhaji with brinjal (Bengali methi saag bhaja) This methi begun is nothing but methi saag bhaji (bhaja in Bengali) means fenugreek leaves fry with small pieces of brinjal/eggplant.

Methi saag bhaji is also popular in Maharashtra but the taste of that methi saag bhaji is different.

Wash methi leaves thoroughly and chop them.

Methi Brinjal Fry step by step

  1. Cut methi, onion, Brinjal, tomato, green chilli, ginger, garlic into pieces. Soak Brinjal cubes in salt water..

  2. Heat kadai & heat oil mustard seed, cumin seeds, Asafetida. Fry onion, Fry green chilli,fry ginger, garlic pieces Add soaked Brinjal, methi..

  3. Saute Brinjal for 10 minutes add tomato, Turmeric powder, Red chilli powder, salt mix. fry well. Saute for 5 minutes without Lid stove off. Methi Brinjal Fry ready..

When the mustard seeds splutter, add urad dal and asafoetida.

When the dal turns brown, add chopped brinjals and stir fry for a minute.

Add salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and coriander powder and fry for a couple of minutes.

Deep fry the brinjal pieces and set aside.

Mix in cumin seeds and slit green chilli.