Vankaya Menthi Gunda Kura

Ingredients

small tender eggplants(vankayalu lethavi) - 250 gms. oil - 5 table spoons tamarind water for boiling egg plants turmeric a pinch and asafoetida a pinch for powder: chana dal - 2 spoons urad dal - 2 spoons sesame seeds - 2 spoons dry chillies - 4 groundnuts - 1 spoon methi seeds - 1/4 spoon little salt for powder (roast all the above ingredients and grind coarsely should be like powder roughly)

Process: Slit the egg plants like plus but should not seperate. Take a vessel cut all the eggplants as said and add turmeric water, salt, turmeric and boil the eggplants not that much soft just for 15 minutes. take out eggplants from water and keep aside. take a kadai add oil to that and a pinch of asafoetida then add eggplants fry them lightly for about 5 minutes then sprinkle the powder prepared for this curry and fry them for about 5 mts. and add some salt according to ones taste. try this curry it will be very nice.