"VoW -Brinjal " Eggplant Pizza , Brinjal with chhole & Spring Onion with brinjals

Chanaa- baingan (Eggplant with Chickpeas) .............
I heard this dish Name few years ago (when I was not cooking even ) One of our neighbour auntie used to cook this dish and sometime she used to send the dishes she makes to our home. Well, that's a common love of neighbors in India , Don't know people here ever know that any such thing and such love does exists for neighbors :) . Ever since then it was in my memory ,I don't know how to cook this dish , neither I tried it from anyone's recipe, basically my liking with both chhole and brinjal lead me to make this dish ,I just thought to give it a try - and try was successful. :~ .Easy to cook, when you have boiled chickpeas on hand.


Ingredients :
1 cup chopped brinjals
1 cup boiled chickpeas
2 tsp oil
1 large tomato cut into cubes

1 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)

1 tsp cumin-corinader seeds powder

1/2 tsp Garam Masala

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

1/2 tsp red chili powder

A pinch of asafoetida powder

salt to taste

Lime juice 1 tsp or according to taste .

Recipe:

Heat oil in a kadhai or Pan , when little hot add cumin seeds sot it, when they start spluttering , add asafoetida powder and turmeric powder to it . Immediately add chopped brinjals to it and mix well , cook on medium flame until brinjal is little soft and translucent , add boiled chickpeas to it. At this stage before adding check that chickpeas are boiled enough, take a single one of boiled one and test it with pressing little, it should be easily mashed when little pressure is applied.

Mix well together, add chopped tomatoes . If i curry looks too dry to cook, add little water to it , add garam masala, chili powder , cumin coriander powder and salt to it , mix it well until tomato turn in to gravy like consistency.

Turn off the heat , sprinkle little bit of lime juice to this and mix well , serve hot with rice , Roti Or paratha . Tastes best next day specially when accompanied with puri.

Chana Baingan ( chickpeas with eggplant ) turn out really very nice , and upto what I expected it to be. A must try for Eggplant lover. This is a twist to normal curry of Chhole. Quick , tasty and a dish which suits to party food /pot luck party.

Eggplant Pizza is a dish I am fond of too much these days. I never heard of this when I was in India . Although I like eggplant , initially I was reluctant to accept this dish . Pizza with eggplant- iieekkk...... this was my reaction when I first read it in menu at a pizza shop(Mario's Pizzeria ) here.

D told me that he likes it too much , and one day I tried a bite from his plates..Not that I was in love with that dish since that day but my initial reaction was it not a bad combo. I can eat it little bit more, as if I was doing that Pizza a favor by eating it :D. Then as I tried it more times I like it little more everytime ,sometimes due to taste , then for its texture ,then for its being less cheesy and now is the day when I love it for everything it is :O .
I tried it with ready made boboli's pizza crust. It is good and with ready made pizza crust on had it is really easy to make within few minutes.
I don't know how they really process eggplant ot make it , I relied on my own idea for that , and I loved it , so for me it works :) .D like it too . So let me say for both of us this is a quick and much loved dish so that is good too ;) .Here is howI make it .

Recipe :
Cut big 1/2 inch thick slices from a tender big eggplant. deep it in salted water for a while. In a bowl, take 2 tsp corn flour and little bit water to make its batter like consistency as we make for Pakoda , add salt to that and deep eggplant slices in it , in a flat pan shallow fry this slices with enough oil to cook it till golden brown , keep it aside and let it cool . Yo ucan choose to deep fry them too instead of shallow frying .
On pizza crust spread even layer of tomato sauce of your liking ,I used Maggi's hot and sweet tomato sauce. Over that spread shredded Parmesan cheese . use it according your liking , I just don't like it , so I use the least possible of it. place eggplant slices around the pizza all over , sprinkle some more cheese and cook it in pre heat oven for 8-10 minute on 400 F temp.

It will turn crispy from base and cheese will turn slight brown . Choose baking time as per the crispiness you wish to have and serve hot cutting it in slices.

One more dish Which I made last week and couldn't resist to share here is Eggplant with Spring Onion. the recipe is almost he same as Methi baingan . taste is much different and lovely color too :) .
One more I missed to share here is a loving and very rare seen combo of Baingan with Gobi . (Plz plz don't shout on me :y for cooking these much eggplant ,- I didn't cook it all in one day :D , I was being fairly Nice to D and presented this one by one in each week ) , I couldn't make it possible to cook it for this event , but I do cook it many times , till now I think you will be able to cook it with your imagination with the high dose given by me to cook different eggplant dishes :D . Cook it and share soon with us before I publish it here for some other ongoing event , Probabilities are high with many event around :O.

Ahhh............ non -eggplant lovers now be happy I am not going to post any more dishes with brinjal/eggplant here now for sometime at least.... but hey don't be so happy still you have to bear me with huge round up of Eggplant dishes ;) . Do you hate me for cooking these much with Brinjals/eggplants ??? See Cham doesn't think so :) . Lovely Cham of Spice club passed on the E Award (for Excellent blog) , and she thinks I make my blog creatively colorful with the dishes I make :) . Cham, thanks a lot for this lovely award , I will surely tell you how do I handle the entries I got for the event of this blog, But for that will you help me with the round up ??? ;)