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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Indian Subcontinent >> Indian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Place whole eggplant in a shallow pan and bake in a 400. oven until very soft, about 50 minutes. | 2. Alternatively, prick with a fork, set on paper toweling, and microwave, uncovered, at 100% for 18-20 minutes. | 3. Cool slightly. | 4. Cut eggplant open and scoop out the pulp in large chunks, discarding larger seed pockets, stem and skin. | 5. Coarsely chop. (Some people prefer to leave the skin on and chop the eggplant into 1-inch cubes.). | 6. Set in a colander to drain. | 7. Coarsely slice red onion. | 8. Mince ginger. | 9. Heat oil in a wide frying pan over medium heat. | 10. dd cumin seeds, ginger, and onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is soft. | 11. Coarsely chop tomato and seeded green pepper. | 12. Add to onion mixture along with turmeric, coriander, ground cumin, paprika, salt, and pepper. | 13. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. | 14. Add water and bring to a simmer. | 15. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. | 16. Stir in chopped eggplant and cook for 5 minutes just to heat through and blend flavors. Just before serving, stir in coarsely chopped cilantro. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
eggplant	2			-	-	-	-
salad oil	2	tablespoons		247.52	0.0	0.0	28.0
cumin seed	1/2	teaspoon		3.9375	0.4645	0.187	0.2338
ginger	1	tablespoon	minced	4.8	1.0662	0.1092	0.045
red onion	1			-	-	-	-
turmeric	1	teaspoon		9.36	2.0142	0.2904	0.0975
green pepper	1/2			14.9	3.4568	0.6407	0.1267
coriander	2	teaspoons	ground	10.728	1.9796	0.4453	0.6397
cumin	1	teaspoon	ground	3.9375	0.4645	0.187	0.2338
paprika	1	teaspoon		6.486000000000001	1.2418	0.3252	0.2965
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
black pepper	1/4	teaspoon		1.4432	0.3677	0.0597	0.0187
tomato	1			32.76	7.0798	1.6016	0.364
water	1/4	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
cilantro	1/4	cup	chopped	0.92	0.1468	0.0852	0.0208

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