Vankaya Pachadi

Ingredients

• • Brinjals (finely sliced) - 1 cup
• • Red chillies - 10
• • Coriander seeds - 2 teaspoons
• • Urad dal - 1 teaspoon
• • Tamarind - lime size
• • Salt - as required
• • Onion (diced) - 1

Method

• 1. Heat little oil and fry red chillies, coriander and urad till it turns golden colour and then powder it in mixie.
• 2. Fry the vegetable pieces in 3 to 4 table spoons of oil till complete moisture is absorbed.
• 3. Remove excess oil after frying.
• 4. Add the fried pieces to the powdered ingredients along with soaked tamarind, salt and diced onion.
• 5. Pound together to coarse paste.
• 6. Season mustard seeds in hot oil and mix with pachadi.