Badanekayi Palya
Badanekayi palya is a Karnataka-style brinjal stir-fry where eggplant is cooked with onion, tomato, ginger, garlic and green chilli in a ground masala of roasted peanuts, dry coconut and niger seeds, balanced with a little jaggery and tempered with mustard and curry leaves. Served with rice or roti.
Ingredients
Main
- Peanuts — 2 tbsp (whole)
- coriander — 1 cup (ground)
- Turmeric Powder — 1 piece (ground)
- Tomato — 1 piece (chopped)
- Water — 1 cup (whole)
- cumin — 1 tsp (ground)
- Ginger — 2 inch (chopped)
- Brinjal — 300 g (chopped)
- green chillies — 5 piece (ground)
- Niger Seeds (Gurellu) — 16 g (roasted)
- Garlic — 6 piece (chopped)
- onion — 1 piece (chopped)
- Jaggery — 1 tsp (whole)
- Dry Coconut — 2 tbsp (whole)
- garam masala powder — 0.5 tsp (ground)
- mustard — 1 tsp (ground)
Tempering
- Curry Leaves — 1 piece (ground)
Method
- firstly, to prepare khanavali style masala powder, dry roast 2 tbsp peanut until it turns crunchy.
- add 2 tbsp gurellu, 2 tbsp dry coconut, 1 tsp cumin and 2 tsp coriander seeds.
- roast on low flame until the spices turn aroamtic.
- cool completely, and transfer to mixer jar.
- add 6 cloves garlic, 5 chilli, 2 inch ginger and 1 cup coriander.
- grind to coarse powder without adding water. keep aside.
- to prepare the curry, heat ¼ cup oil in a large kadai.
- add 1 tsp mustard, 1 tsp cumin and pinch hing. splutter the tempering.
- add 1 onion, few curry leaves and saute until the onion softens.
- further add 3 brinjal, ½ tsp turmeric and ½ tsp salt. saute for 2 minutes, until the spices are well coated.
- cover and simmer for 5 minutes, or until the brinjal are half cooked.
- now add 1 tomato, ½ cup water and mix gently.
- cover and continue to simmer for 5 minutes or until the brinjal and tomato softens.
- further add prepared masala powder, 1 tsp jaggery and ½ tsp salt. mix gently making sure everything is well combined.
- add in 1 cup water and adjust the consistency.
- cover and boil for 5 minutes or until all the flavours are well absorbed.
- finally, add ½ tsp garam masala and mix well. enjoy khanavali style badanekayi palya with roti or chapathi.
Common questions
- What is ಬದನೆಕಾಯಿ ಪಾಳ್ಯ in English?
- ಬದನೆಕಾಯಿ ಪಾಳ್ಯ is written Badanekayi Palya in English.
- How many calories in one plate of Badanekayi Palya?
- 151 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 40 min — 10 min prep, 30 min cooking.