North Indian
Baingan Bharta
Baingan Bharta is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 large eggplant
- 1 onion
- 3 tomatoes
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 2 green chilies
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 3/4 tsp garam masala
- 3 tbsp neutral oil
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Rub the eggplants with a little oil and roast over a flame or under the broiler, turning, until the skin chars and the flesh collapses, about 15 minutes.
- Cool the eggplants, peel off the blackened skin, and mash the smoky flesh.
- Heat the oil in a pan, let the cumin sizzle, then cook the onion, garlic, ginger, and green chilies until soft and golden, about 7 minutes.
- Stir in the turmeric, coriander, and chopped tomatoes and cook until the tomatoes break down and the oil separates, about 8 minutes.
- Fold in the mashed eggplant and salt and cook, stirring, for 6 minutes so the flavors meld.
- Finish with garam masala and cilantro and serve hot with roti.
Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Baingan Bharta, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Baingan Bharta carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Baingan Bharta takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on eggplant, tomato, and onion.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from North India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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