South Indian Style Shallot and Brinjal Masala

We had a surfiet of farm grown small onions. They arent the sambar onion variety, but regular onions, just small. After using them as per usual, I decided to try out a hybrid dish with them whole. I call it my baghara baingan meets pulusu gravy.It turned out so delicious that I am writing the…

{Quick Recipe} Baby Brinjals with Ginger and Kalonji

I did a column recently for the newspaper I write for, emphasizing that most beginners in the kitchen shy away from Indian cooking on a weeknight because we think it is complicated, uses too many ingredients and is a multi step process. While this is true for elaborate recipes, there are an astounding number of dishes that can…

Baingan Ka Bharta

This is one of those recipes I didn’t eat leave alone try to make for a very long time. Apart from the fact that I avoid multi step cooking like the plague, I am not particularly fond of dishes with too many layers of flavour. Somehow the idea of a smoked charred vegetable double cooked…