This is one of my favourite and it tastes so good that people who doesn't like brinjal will fall in love with it. Gutti vankaya kura is a famous dish in andhra. its tastes very good with rotis, fried rice, vegetable rice/pulav,pulkas etc. lets see how to make it.
If we cut the brinjal and make curry with out the stem the curry will look as below. but tastes the same.
Ingredients:-
Brinjal - 1/2 Kg
Onions - 3
Ground Nuts:- Small cup
White Sesame seeds - 1/2 cup
Tamarind - Small lemon sized
Green Chillies - 4
Ginger,Garlic,Chilly paste - 3 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Jaggery - small piece(optional)
Coriander leaves - few
Green Chillies - 2
Cloves - 3
Bay leaf - 1
Cinnamon stick -2
Stone algae/Kadal pasi - few
Oil - 4 tsp
Method:-
1. soak tamarind in water for 5 min extract juice and keep aside.
2. Fry ground nuts remove outer skin, fry Sesame seeds and course ground it in mixer.
3. slit the brinjal into four on the other side of stem and retain the stem.
4. Keep them in water.
5. Heat oil in a pan, add Cinnamon stick,bay leaf,cloves,stone algae.
6. To the above add onions,Green chillies fry a little bit and add ginger,garlic and chilli paste.
7. Fry a little bit, add brinjal to it(with out water).
8. fry a little add tamarind water,salt,turmeric,jaggery,chilli powder.
9. one it boils add the course ground nut and sesame seeds powder to it.
10. Mix well and cover it with a plate and cook till it becomes thick gravy.
11. Keep stirring in between.
12.Garnish with coriander leaves.
13. Tasty curry is ready.
14. Serve with rotis,pulkas, ghee rice, pulav, fried rice etc.
Note:- Sending this recipe to cook up a meal under 30 min by Srivalli Meal under 30 min
