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Prep time
5 minutes -
Prepare time for dinner
1 hour 20 minutes -
Serves
4
Creator Notes
Bhartha (once in a while “bharta”) is a vegetarian Indian dish most productive served over a bowl of jasmine rice. My favourite iterations (in conjunction with the one available up the avenue) consist of peas, which add a truly proper pop of color and texture. Accumulate a large batch — you’ll be going abet for thirds. —Kendra Vaculin
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Test Kitchen-Accredited
Ingredients
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1
neat eggplant
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2 tablespoons
vegetable oil
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1
medium onion, diced
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3
cloves garlic, minced
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2
medium tomatoes, diced
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1 1/2 teaspoons
flooring ginger
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2 teaspoons
curry powder
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2 teaspoons
cumin
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1/2 teaspoon
turmeric
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1/2 teaspoon
chili powder
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1 cup
frozen peas, thawed
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1/2 teaspoon
salt, plus more to model
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1 pinch
Sad pepper, to model
Directions
- Prepare dinner the entire eggplant (stem and leaves removed) over the initiating flame of your burner, turning veritably, except the within is gentle and the skin is charred, about 20 minutes. Conversely, that you just can well possibly also slit your eggplant with a fork and bake it in a 350° F oven except gentle, about one hour.
- Desire away the eggplant from flame or oven, allow it cold, and chop it up; the eggplant will doubtless be tender and this could occasionally utterly give map into a pulpy mess — right here’s ideal. Succor it along in this endeavor and then region it aside.
- Warmth the oil in a neat pan over medium warmth. Add onions and garlic and cook except nearly translucent, 5 to 7 minutes. Add tomatoes and the full spices apart from for the salt. Cut again warmth moderately and cook down for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Add eggplant and peas and mix to mix, cooking except heated thru. Use the abet of a wood spoon right here to mash the entire mess together in case you’d moderately beget a smoother mix (right here I carry my hand), or proper are residing and let are residing in case you dig it on the chunkier facet. Add salt to model, as properly as any extra spices to your liking. Season with murky pepper.
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