Brinjal fry (egg plant)

 

Servings : 3

Cooking Time: 15-20 min

Cuisine: Goan

Author :Puja Raghuvir naik

Ingredients

1. 1 big baingan (eggplant/brinjal)
2. 2 tsp red chili powder
3. 1 tsp turmeric powder
4. salt to taste
5. Rava(salmonella) for application

Method

cut in between of brinjal into round pieces

Apply salt, turmeric, and chili powder and keep aside.

Heat the pan add oil. apply rava on both sides of brinjal pieces and put in the pan, fry till become golden brown.

Serve with rice and curry.

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Pansachi bhakari( jackfruit rava cake)

 Jackfruit cake is a Goan breakfast dish prepared using jackfruit pulp, rava, jaggery, and grated coconut.

Servings : 3 People

Cooking Time: 30 min

Author :Puja Raghuvir naik

Ingredients

1. Jackfruit pulp
2. rava idli (salmonella) 3 cup
3. cashew nuts
4. Badam chopped
5. salt to taste
6. jaggery grated 1 cup
7. grated coconut
8. 2 tsp pure ghee
9. Water as required

Method

1. Add the jackfruit pulp to a mixie and grind it to a smooth pulp. 
2. Heat ghee in a kadhai (pan). Roast rava (semolina) till it turns light brown and it releases an aroma. (You can do without roasting rava)today recipe I made without roasting rava.
3. Allow it to cool.
4. Now, take all the ingredients (jackfruit pulp, idli rava, grated coconut, jaggery, salt) in a large vessel and mix everything and water as per the thickness of batter) Ensure you have combined all the ingredients well into a uniform mixture.
5. Grease a pressure cooker with ghee. Add the mixture and level it up.
6. Keep the pressure cooker without a whistle  on the smaller burner over a low flame. Bake the cake for about 45 minutes. After 45 mins open the lid. You will see the cake has lightly browned on the sides. Now slowly pour a tablespoon of ghee along the sides of the cooker. This will brown it further. Close the lid and keep for another 15 mins.                 

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1. Keep the idli cooker on low gas, place the mixture on ghee greased banana leaves in the container of the idli cooker. Close the lid and bake for 20 min, open the lid and check if it is cooked, again cook for 10 min if not properly baked.
2. Switch off the gas after 15 mins. Allow it to cool. Do not try to remove the cake when hot. Once cooled, slide a knife along the edges of the cooker. Keep a plate on top of the cooker and upturn it. Slice the cake and garnish it with dry fruits and grated coconut.
3. Enjoy it with tea or coffee.

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Goan sakhar bhat recipe

Sakhar bhat is one of Goan sweet dishes. Especially cooked during occasion.....it is sweet to taste with the crunchiness of nuts.

Servings : 3 People

Cooking Time: 15-20 min

Author :Puja Raghuvir naik

Ingredients

1. Long Basmati Rice 1 cup
2. 1 cup sugar
3. Pinch of saffron or food color
4. cashew nuts
5. Badam chopped
6. salt to taste
7. Cloves 2 to 4
8. Pinch of Cardamom powder
9. 2 tsp pure ghee
10. Water as required

Method

1. Wash and rinse the rice properly, dry it on muslin cloths, and spread it on the floor or kitchen table to dry completely.  
2. When rice is completely dried, heat pan on gas add ghee
3. Add rice in it and fry for 5 min don't make it brown, add clove and pinch of food color or saffron.
4. Add water as per required,
5. Add pinch of cardamom and stir it and cook on low flame.
6. Cook until all water dries off from rice add little ghee in it so that it does not stick
7. Add sugar, cashew, badam, stir slowly. cook for 5 min.
8. Serve hot.

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