Kathrikai Podi Fry
Serves 415 mins prep25 mins cook
Kathrikai Podi Fry is a delightful eggplant dish that combines a variety of spices and grains to create a flavorful stuffing for brinjals. This special recipe, contributed by Moksha Giridhar, is perfect as a side dish with rice.
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1: Add 1 tablespoon of oil into a pan. 2: Add all the ingredients i.e., mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal, Fenugreek seeds, Hing, turmeric powder, coriander seeds, Bengal gram, red chillies, garlic cloves & curry leaves. 3: Roast all until the seeds become golden brown, on low or medium flame. 4: Keep it aside and let it cool. 5: In a food processor or grinding mixer, add all the roasted ingredients and salt. Make a fine powder. 6: Cut and slit the brinjal into four halves (do not cut till the end). 7: Stuff the powder into the brinjal. 8: Add 4 tablespoons of oil into a pan or kadai. 9: Add the stuffed brinjals one by one into the kadai. 10: Close the lid and cook on low flame until the brinjals turn soft. 11: Ready to serve. It can be served with rice as a side dish.View original recipe