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Eggplant curry is made using peanuts and sesame seeds predominantly. The flavour of peanuts and the oily sesame seeds make the curry rich in texture and taste. Chappati and eggplant curry is personally my choice of food for dinner. Let's take a look at the ingredients. Ingredients: 1 medium sized eggplant or 5-6 brinjals slit vertically along with it's stem 1 carrot, optional 1 tbsp black pepper corns 2 tbsp peanuts 2 tbsp white sesame seeds 3 tbsp sesame oil Few curry leaves 3 green chillies, slit vertically 1 tbsp thick tamarind paste 1 tsp red chilli powder salt to taste Steps: 1. Dry roast the peanuts till light brown, Then add sesame seeds and roast till sesame seeds turn light brown. We need to add sesame seeds later as it turns out brown quickly as compared to the peanuts. 2. Let it cool completely. Then add the peanut and sesame seeds mixture to a mixer and grind it to a coarse powder. If you grind nicely, the eggplant curry would become l...

Roti a.k.a chapati is a staple food for most the people from Northern parts of India. It is made out of wheat flour and sometimes maida or all purpose flour. In recent times, the trend is to use multiple grains grounded together for making roti due to beneficial factors of the various grains. Here I have detailed the steps on making a Jeera/Cumin roti. Let's see the ingredients list needed, Ingredients: 1 cup wheat flour 1 cup maida/all purpose flour 1/4 butter 1 tsp salt 1/2 cup water 1 tsp cumin/jeera seeds 1/4 cup warm milk Steps: 1. Sieve together wheat flour, maida and salt. 2. Add butter to the flour and mix well. 3. Meanwhile, boil 1/2 cup water and add cumin seeds to it. 4. Pour the boiling water onto the flour, add warm milk and let it stand for 5 minutes. Do not mix at this point in time. 5. After 5 minutes, mix the flour dough very well. Knead them well for 7-8 minutes. Cover it with a wet cloth and set it aside for at least 15 minutes. Now the d...