Mom's Eggplant (Aubergine) Sabzi
"This is one of my favourite eggplant dishes. My mom made this but not too often since it does have a bit of oil. It is very easy to make too, so enjoy!"
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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2
ingredients
- 2 1⁄2 cups chopped eggplants (do not chop too small since they might become too mushy when cooked)
- 1 teaspoon mango powder (amchur)
- 1 teaspoon salt, to taste
- 1 teaspoon sambhar powder
- 1 teaspoon sugar (optional)
- 2 -3 tablespoons coconut oil (or any other oil of choice)
directions
- In a heavy- bottomed skillet, cook the eggplant in oil.
- Stir every once a while so that the eggplant does not stick to the bottom of the skillet.
- Once it is cooked, add the salt, amchur powder, sugar and sambar powder and switch off the heat.
- Eggplant sabzi is ready!
- Note: Stir after adding sugar, salt etc so that they don't stick to each other and clump together.
- This goes very well with yoghurt rice or just mixed with rice and eaten as such.
- Since this can be oily and spicy, I usually combine it with dal (which I make a bit bland to compensate) and eat with hot rotis.
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Reviews
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Because I've cook a lot of eggplant maybe this will help. I salt each slice of eggplant and spray with Pam, then I bake in the oven @350, turn after 30 minutes or when tops are brown. I never cook eggplant in a skillet. This reduces Calories & Total Fat. It's better for you. -
I hate giving a recipe less than 4 stars but this dish didnt turn out as expected.I dunno if it was the eggplant I got.I did as instructed but when I tasted the sabzi it was bitter.Honestly I dunno y.If any one could tell me would be good, as I could make changes the next time. -
This was really good. Went very well with curd rice. I quartered the brinjals, used 1-1/2 tbsp of sambhar masala and 1 tbsp of amchur, and used corn oil. I did sprinkle a little water to the eggplant to help in the cooking process. As Char said, naming it subzi would be a better thing to do, as it is a dry dish. I never knew there was such a simple method to cook eggplants, and this is guaranteed to make eggplants one of my favorite veggies.
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This is amazing!!! I made this as a side dish for dinner tonight. I used just 1 tbsp. of oil for this{we use Sunflower corn oil}. I did not use sugar in this. All the other ingredients were mentioned in very appropriate amounts. Perfect recipe and it turned out very well. I never liked eggplants all that much, but now, ah, I love 'em! Thank you for sharing this :) P.S. My only suggestion would be to change the name of this recipe, because, it is really dry and not a curry dish{not liquid}. The name can be mis-leading and maybe if you called it "Eggplant sabzi" or something along that line, lots more folks would like to try it. Just a humble suggestion. This is an awesome recipe and deserves many good reviews!
