Badnekai Gojju

Ingredients:

• Badnekai/Baingan- 1/4th kilo, or medium size bartha baingan
• Haldi quarter tea spoon
• Tamarind 1 lemon size
• Rasam powder 3  full tea spoon heap or 4 tea spoon flat.
• Gud/ Jaggery/bella. 1 Table spoon, half lemon size, according to your taste
• Salt 1 tea spoon/according to your taste

For seasoning:

• Oil 2 table spoon
• 1 tea spoon : Rai/ sasive/ Mustard seeds 
• 1 tea spoon : channa dal,/ bengal gram/kadale bele
• 1 tea spoon:  / udad dal/ black gram
• Few kadi patha/ karibevu/curry leaves
• Hing small pinch

For roasting and grinding:

• 10 dhana of methi/ Fenugreek seeds/Menthya
• 1 tea spoon of til/sesame/yellu
• 1/4th tea spoon udad dal
• 4  byadagi chillies
• 1 tea spoon of dhania/ kothambri beeja/coriander seeds
• 2 table spoon of dry or fresh co co nut 

Preliminary preparation:

1. Cut brinjal into medium size cubes
2. Soak tamarind and make pulp
3. Roast; heat few drops of oil put byadagi chillies, roast, remove it, put methi dhana, roast till it becomes red add udad dal, roast , then add til, roast and coriander seeds, then  grind add coconut grind add water and grind it to make a smooth paste

Method:

1. Take a thick bottom vessel/kadai, 
2. Add oil. Once it heats do the seasoning/oggarane with sasive, channadal, udad dal, kadi patha and hing. 
3. Then add brinjal, salt and haldi roast well, sprinkle some water cover with a lid and allow it to cook for some time, keep checking add quarter cup of water, let it cook in low flame. 
4. Once it is cooked add tamarind pulp, rasam powder, jaggery and cook well till it boils.
5. Then add the ground Masala , add little water,  about quarter cup.
6. Let it cook  for another five minutes , the consistency should be thicker than sambar consistency. 
7. Swith off the flame.

Note:

Enjoy with rice or chapati
Other vegetables you can use are, Onions/capsicum/bitter gourd, hagalakai,/ herale jai/ pineapple/ raw or semi riped mangoes/ raw papaya/orange or lemon peels/red pumpkin/ fresh or dry grapes
When you make gojju with fresh fruits or dry grapes, you soak 5 to 6 cashew nuts and grind with other masalas.
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