Wambatu (Egg Plant) Moju

This delightful brinjal moju/eggplant pickle is a lovely side dish, can be enjoyed as part of any main meal including meat and poultry or fish or seafood dishes. This goes particularly well with yellow rice.

Ingredients

 

• 250g eggplant – cut into small strips
• ½ red onion – cut into cubes
• 10 green chilies – cut it from the middle (optional)
• 2 – 3 cloves of garlic
• 2.5cm x 1 piece of ginger
• 20 – 25 dried sprats
• 8 – 10 curry leaves
• 1 tablespoon coriander power
• 1 ½ mustard seeds
• Vinegar
• 2 – 3 teaspoons Sugar
• Fortune Vegetable Oil to fry
• Salt to taste

Directions

1. Heat the Fortune Vegetable Oil in a large frying pan in medium heat.
2. When oil is ready, deep fry the eggplant strips till it gets little bit dark brown in color on both sides.
3. Drain it on a paper or kitchen tissues to remove excess oil.
4. Now add onions & green chilies and fry it for nearly 5 – 10 minutes & Drain it on a paper or kitchen tissues to remove excess oil.
5. Finally fry the dried sprats till you get a nice golden color and Drain it on a paper or kitchen tissues to remove excess oil.
6. Now with the help of a blender or a mortar and pestle (Wangediya) minced the ginger and garlic. When you get a fine paste now add mustard into the ginger garlic paste and minced it till the mustard seeds vanished . You will get a fine paste of ginger, garlic & mustard.
7. Now place the paste in a small bowl, and add coriander power, sugar, salt and vinegar and stir the mixture till sugar is dissolve.