Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, begun pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The only scary and time-consuming part in this whole thing is roasting the eggplant, on the open flame, till it is charred. This preparation is quite similar to the famous North Indian dish Baingan ka Bharta, but Begun Pora has its own taste and flavour of Bengal totally different from Bharta. Image : Begun Pora Begun Pora– the rustic suburban cousin of Upper East side Ms.
Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have begun pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha:
- Make ready 4 medium aubergine
- Get 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Make ready 1 tablespoon mustard oil or any cooking oil
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped tomatoes
- Make ready 2 onions chopped
- Take 2-3 green chillies
- Prepare 1 tablespoon minced garlic or fresh green garlic
- Get 1/2 cup chopped coriander
- Take to taste Salt
Begun pora is a traditional Bengali dish which is prepared with roasted brinjal (eggplant). You may think it is similar to North Indian baigan bharta. But it is actually different in taste because here all raw ingredients are used except brinjal. So taste is certainly very special.
Steps to make Begun Pora/roasted aubergine/ baingan bhartha:
- Roast the aubergine on gas until soft and skin charred. Keep rotating to cook even. - Alternatively you can roast the aubergine in an oven as well.
- Cool, remove the skin, mash with a fork Peel the eggplant and mash it with fork.
- Heat oil in a pan and add chopped onions, garlic and green chillies and sauté until onion gets soft and gets caramelised. Add tomatoes and salt to taste and cook for a minute.
- Add the mashed aubergine and cook until all liquid from aubergine is absorbed. - Finally add lemon juice and mix well. Remove and transfer in serving dish and garnish with coriander.
- Serve with any Indian flatbread,naan or pita chips.
Begun means brinjal/eggplant and pora means burns or roast. Begun Pora is a very tasty and strongly flavoured Bengali cuisine made of eggplant. Begun pora is an authentic preparation eaten in Bengal as part of everyday meal. It is healthy, tasty and simple. This dish is very similar to Baingan ka Bharta but not the same.
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