easy brinjal fry recipe | brinjal rava fry | baingan rava fry | fried eggplant
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 20 minutes
- Cook time: 10 minutes
- Total time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 10 pieces
- Category: Side Dish
- Cuisine: karnataka
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- ½ tsp turmeric / haldi
- pinch of hing / asafoetida
- 2 tbsp rice flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 brinjal / baingan / eggplant (thickly sliced)
- oil for deep frying
for rava coating:
- ¼ cup rava / semolina / sooji
- ½ tsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- ¼ tsp salt
Method
- firstly, in a large mixing bowl take 1 tbsp chilli powder, ½ tsp turmeric, pinch of hing, 2 tbsp rice flour and ½ tsp salt.
- combine well making sure the spices are mixed.
- now add 2 tbsp water and prepare a masala paste.
- add in 1 brinjal thickly slices and coat with masala paste.
- coat well and rest for 20 minutes.
- meanwhile prepare rava mixture by mixing ¼ cup rava, ½ tsp chilli powder and ¼ tsp salt.
- now coat the marinated baingan with rava on both sides.
- shallow fry or pan fry in hot oil.
- fry on low flame making sure to cook well.
- now flip over and cook brinjal on both the sides. do not over cook as then brinjal will loose shape.
- finally, serve brinjal fry recipe / brinjal rava fry as a side dish.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.