GUTTI VANKAYA KURA

Ingredients

4-6 small brinjals
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
3/4 cup onions thinly sliced
2 green chili slit
1 small tomato chopped
1 tsp turmeric powder
1-11/2 tbsp lemon juice or tamarind paste
1 tsp mustard seed
1/2 tsp cumin seed
2 tbsp oil

To roast and powder

4 tbsp peanuts
2 tbsp coconut
1-2 tbsp sesame seeds
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1/2 tsp cumin seed
1 small cinnamon stick (optional)
2 cloves(optional)
2 green cardamom (optional)
4-6 dry chili or 1 tsp chili powder

Method

Roast and powder all the ingredients under roast and powder.
Each ingredients has to be roasted separately , add slat and lemon juice and mix well.
Wash and cut brinjals with one end of brinjal and stalk leaving intact.
Keep them immersed in salted water till you use.
Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seed, cumin seed, and curry leaves.
Once they splutter, add onions and green chillies, fry until golden,
Add ginger garlic paste, and fry until raw smell goes away. Add chopped tomato , turmeric powder and salt. Cook until tomato turns mushy.
Stuff brinjals with powder and add them ot the pan and fry for 3 minutes. Make sure brinjals are coated with enough oil.
Pour water just enough to cook brinjals. add salt. Cover and cook on a low flame .
Once they are fully cooked and tender, add chopped coriander leaves .
Serve gutti vankya kura with rice or chapati.





6-8 curry leaves
few coriander elaves