Vayngana Bharth
There are so many different ways of using a roast eggplant (vayngan in Konkani) and there are so many ways to roast an eggplant. Bharth, Bharith or Bhartha are different names of this dish, which is prepared in few different ways. This particular recipe is for a Konkani special vayngana bharth.
There are so many ways to roast an eggplant. You can directly do it on stove/fire or bake in oven or broil in oven . But I have found that this method of roasting on tava is by far the easiest and mess free way, especially when you don’t have access to oven or don’t want to start it. Aayi learnt this from my pachi and has been following it for years when she does not have burning coals(they still burn wood to heat water at my hometown).
There are few other roasted eggplant recipes that you could try – another bharth recipe , bajji recipe .
Vayngana Bharth
Ingredients: 1 big eggplant 4 red chillies 1/2 cup coconut A pinch or small stone hing(optional) A small piece tamarind Oil Salt
Method: Apply oil to eggplant. Heat a tava(do not use nonstick). Keep the eggplant on it and cover with vessel. Turn it around few times till it is completely roasted. Put it in water. Peel the skin. Discard the water. Grind coconut, tamarind, hing(optional) with red chillies. At the end, add the eggplant and pulse couple of times. Take it out in a bowl and add onion and salt. Serve with a papad. Serves : 4 Preparation time : 20mins
Banana vada
It was vade panchami few days ago – it is celebrated at my kuldevasthan – family god’s temple at Ankola. Thousands of deities gather for the pooja. One of the biggest things (other than super delicious lunch) during this function is these banana vada prasad – so the function is called vade panchami. Many men gather to make these vadas and then the vadas are deep fried in huge pan. Some remove the vadas from the hot oil just by their bare hands without a ladle/spoon. It has been a long tradition going on for decades. I found this video on youtube of this . I have explained more about vade panchami in this post .
I was missing all these celebrations, so decided to try something similar. Ofcourse this is not the recipe followed at our temple but I just made it up. The vadas came out so delicious that I think I have to save the recipe.
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Ingredients: 1 and 1/2 cup rice flour 1/2 cup almond flour 1/2 cup coconut 1 cup milk 2 tbl spn jaggery 1 big banana (about 2/3rd cup mashed banana) Salt Oil for deep frying
Method: Mix all the ingredients except oil in a bowl. Take a big ball of the mixture and flatten it on a plastic. Gently pick up the vada and deep fry in hot oil. Enjoy while it is still warm with chutney.
Makes about 8 Preparation time :30 mins
Note: If you don’t have almond flour, substitute with wheat flour or rice flour.
