If your guests are coming over and you don’t have anything exotic to serve still you can impress with your cooking skills with these crispy Eggplant balls.
Ingredients:-( Serves 16 )
- 2 Eggplant / Baingan
- 1 tbsp Oil / Tel
- 1/2 tsp Cumin / Zeera
- 1 tsp Ginger paste / Adrakh
- 1 tsp Garlic paste / Lasan
- 2 Tomato purée or 1/2 cup
- 1/2-1 tsp Red chilli powder
- 3-4 tbsp Bread crumb
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp Coriander chutney / Dhaniya
- 1/2 tsp Chilli paste
- 1/2 tsp Garam Masala
- 1/2 tsp Chaat masala
- 1/2 tsp Mango powder / Aamchur
- 1 cube Cheese cube
- Oil to fry
Method:-
- In hot Oil add Cumin & let it crackle few seconds on low.
- Add Ginger-Garlic paste sauté on low just for a minute.
- Next add Chilli paste,Salt and Coriander chutney mix and immediate drop Tomato purée.
- Cook over medium and when Tomato changes colour or loses moisture keeping heat low add red chilli powder.
- Mix and just within few seconds add shredded Eggplant,sauté over medium to high till the rawness of Eggplant goes away.
- In between add the remaining spices.-Chaat masala,Garam masala and Mango powder.
- Within 8-10 minutes Eggplant becomes quiet mushy and soft,now add small pieces of cheese and mix.
- Our stuffing is ready,let it come down to room temperature.
- Mix about 3 tablespoons of Bread crumb to get a manageable dough like consistency.
- Pinch out small lemon size balls out of the dough and then roll them again into Bread crumbs.
- You can keep all of them ready and then fry in hot Oil over medium in batches until crispy.Stir occasionally to get fried all over.
- Strain out over paper towel.
- Serve hot with sauce or curd.