Chutney with Eggplant/Brinjal

We love eggplants at our house. I make curries like gojju and ennekayi, a typical south Indian dish's to make with eggplant. Most of the times I make quick stir-fry or north Indian style Baingan Bartha with eggplants, which tastes wonderful with chapathis.
For the first time today I tried making chutney with eggplant. It tasted creamy with eggplant, nice spice with chilis and sweet taste from shallots,very delicious and it is simple and easy recipe to make.


Ingredients I used.

• Eggplant/brinjal/badanekayi - 1 big or 3-4 small
• Shallot or red onion - small one
• Green chili's - 1or 2 according to desired spice level.

For Tempering/seasoning

• Oil - 1 tbsp for cooking eggplant + 1 tsp for seasoning
• Mustard seeds - 1tsp
• Hing/asafeotida - one pinch

Method :

1. Wash and chop eggplants to bit size pieces. Cut shallots/onions as well.
2. Heat a tablespoon of oil in a pan, when hot add chopped eggplant and onion and fry till little soft and not mushy. Takes about 10 - 12 mins. Keep stirring in between to make sure the veggies doesn't stick to the pan. Once done keep aside and let it cool.
3. Once cool enough, take them all in a blender/mixie, add salt and cut chilis and grind it to a course paste.I have not used any water while grinding. Moisture from eggplant is enough to grind them and gives excellent texture to chutney.
4. Now take this mixture in a bowl and season with hot oil, mustard seeds and hing. Pour the seasoning over chutney and mix well(add little red chili powder while seasoning, to make the chutney more spicier).

We enjoyed with chapathis. Eggplant Chutney will tastes great with hot rice or as a creamy spread on hot toast.
* Instead of roasting the eggplant in a pan, roasting can done in oven and make sure not to make it too mushy . Using shallots instead of onions to gives chutneys more flavor.
I'll be sending this to Chutney/Dip Mania hosted by Ramya of MANE ADIGE.

Here are some other chutney recipes previously posted on my blog.

Classic Coconut Chutney

Sweet Potato Chutney

Zucchini Chutney

Channadal/Kadalebele Chutney