
Bharela Ringana Bateta Nu Shaak
Bharela Ringana Bateta Nu Shaak stands as a traditional Gujarati main course, offering a delightful combination of spiciness, tanginess, a hint of sweetness, and overall deliciousness for your everyday meals. This dish features eggplants and potatoes stuffed with a chickpea flour mixture infused with essential Indian spices.
Ingredients
To make stuffing
- ¼ cup – Besan / Chickpea flour
- 1 bunch – Chopped Cilantro
- 3 tablespoon – Cumin and coriander powder / Dhana Jeera Powder
- 2 tablespoon – Red chili powder
- 2 tablespoon – Jaggery
- 2 tablespoon – Crushed Garlic
- 1 teaspoon – Garama Masala
- ¼ teaspoon – Turmeric powder
- Asafetida – a pinch
- ¼ cup = crushed peanut
- Salt to taste
- 2 tablespoon – Oil
Other Ingredients
- 300 – grams – Baby Potatoes
- 300 grams – Baby Eggplant / Ringana / Baingun
- 1 cup – Onion sliced
- 1 cup – Tomatoes chopped
- 4 tablespoon – Oil
Instructions
- Take a big mixing bowl. Add all the stuffing ingredients in that bowl. Mix them very well. Keep it aside.
- Make criss-cross slits on eggplant and potatoes (Peel the skin of potatoes first), taking care not to separate the segments. Stuff the slits of baingan and potatoes with the prepared mixture. if you still have some mixture left, keep it aside, we will sprinkle it at the end.
- Heat oil in a pan. Add onion and saute it for 2 minutes. Add stuffed vegetables. Stir it. Add 1 cup of water, close the pan with a lid and cook it on low to medium heat for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Open the lid, add chopped tomatoes, mix and cook it again for another 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
- Sprinkle leftover stuffing masala (If you have leftover). Mix and add water if it is required. Cook it for another 2 minutes.
- Bharela Ringan Bateta Nu Shaak is ready. Serve it with Bajri Rotla, Bhakhari, Phulka or rice.
How to make this Bharela Ringan Bateta Nu Shaak in a pressure cooker
- If you don't have enough time, make this sabzi in a pressure cooker. Heat oil in cooker. Saute onion for 2 minutes.
- Add stuffed eggplant and stuffed baby potatoes. Mix and also add any leftover masala. Add 2 and ½ cup of water, stir, close the pressure cooker and listen to 3 whistles.
- Let your pressure cooker cools down.
- Your Bharela Ringan Bateta Nu Shaak in pressure cooker is ready in no time.
Nutrition
Calories: 420kcalCarbohydrates: 40gProtein: 8gFat: 28gSaturated Fat: 3gSodium: 83mgPotassium: 856mgFiber: 10gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 1366IUVitamin C: 24mgCalcium: 85mgIron: 3mg
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