Begun Bhaja

Today I tried begun bhaja, a delicious n delightful recipe of Bengali cuisine. One of my close friend who is a Bengali shared this mouth-watering recipe of begun bhaja with me. Her method was to deep fry sliced egg plants and then sprinkled it with salt and spices. I gave a twist to it to make it more crispy and tasty. And my recipe is like this …..

Ingredients
Egg Plant – 2
Rice flour – 1 table spoon
Red chillies – 1/4 tea spoon
Black pepper – 1/4 tea spoon
Mango powder – 1/4 tea spoon
Roasted cumin seeds – 1/4 tea spoon
Salt to taste
Desi ghee for shallow frying

Method
1. Sliced the egg plants in half circles for that first slit it from top to bottom after removing crown and then cut them in thin slices.
2. Rub the rice flour on both the sides of the egg plant slice gently.
3. Shallow fry them in a pan.
4. Sprinkle the spices on it and serve hot.

You can garnish it with chopped coriander leaves if you wish.

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