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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Indian Subcontinent >> Indian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 400’, stab the eggplant with a fork a couple of times and put in a small casserole dish, uncovered on the middle rack for 30 minutes. When done, run under some cool water and peel of skin, and scrape out all of the seeds. Place in a food processor. (do not process until all the ingredients are ready.) | 2. While the eggplant is roasting, brown the basmati rice in a skillet with 2T of olive oil, the turmeric, salt, and cumin seeds for 5 minutes. Then add the 2 cups water, bring to a boil, cover and simmer on low for 20 minutes. | 3. Start the lentils cooking in a pot with about 2” of water covering them. Bring them to a boil and then cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until the water is almost gone. After they are done cooking, put them along with 2T of lentil water in the food processor with the eggplant. | 4. In a small skillet, cook 3T olive oil, the mustard seeds, the chopped onions, and the garlic. (This dish is not spicy, but if you want it to be, just add the cayenne to this mixture.) After onions are tender and mustard seeds start sputtering, add the salt and the curry seasoning. Stir in a handful of washed baby spinach and wilt into the mixture. Add all of this to the food processor and process on low with the eggplant and the lentils. Add the cup of pureed tomatoes (I use some leftover homemade tomato soup that has pureed tomatoes, a little sugar, salt, and tomato paste in it)and process it all up and then enjoy. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
eggplant	1			-	-	-	-
lentil	1 1/2	1/2		122.43	25.5717	10.3488	0.6353
basmati rice	1	cup		-	-	-	-
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
turmeric	1/2	teaspoon		4.68	1.0071	0.1452	0.0488
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
cumin seed	1 1/2	1/2		11.8125	1.3936	0.561	0.7015
water	2	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
olive oil	3	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
mustard seed	1	teaspoon		10.16	0.5618	0.5216	0.7248
onion	1/4	cup	chopped	16.0	3.736	0.44	0.04
garlic	1	teaspoon	minced	4.172	0.9257	0.1781	0.013999999999999999
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
curry powder	1 1/2	1/2		9.75	1.6749	0.4287	0.4203
baby spinach	1/2	cup		3.45	0.5445	0.429	0.0585
tomato puree	1/4	cup		23.75	5.6125	1.0312	0.1312
cayenne powder	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.