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Get ready to be transported straight back to your mom's kitchen with this incredibly comforting and deeply flavorful recipe! Today, we're diving into the heart of simple Indian home cooking with a classic: Aloo Baingan ki Sabji (Potato and Eggplant Curry). Forget the heavy restaurant curries; this is the soulful, everyday version—made with minimal spices, maximum flavor, and a whole lot of love. It’s a humble dish, yet every bite, rich with soft potatoes, tender eggplant, and a tangy tomato base, is pure nostalgia. Grab your roti and let's get cooking!
If you're looking for a dish that truly embodies the warmth and comfort of an Indian kitchen, look no further than Home Style Aloo Baingan ki Sabji!
This isn't the complex, creamy curry you'd find at a restaurant; this is the soul food version—simple, humble, and bursting with fresh, tangy flavor. It's a classic vegetarian side dish made from humble potatoes (aloo) and eggplant (baingan), cooked down in a fragrant base of tomatoes, and everyday spices like turmeric, chili powder, and coriander.
What makes it "home style" is the focus on perfectly tender vegetables and a light, dry-ish texture (rather than a gravy), allowing the natural sweetness of the potatoes and the slight smoky bitterness of the eggplant to shine through. It's best enjoyed scooped up with hot rotis or parathas—pure comfort on a plate!
And there you have it—your ultimate recipe for the most comforting Home Style Aloo Baingan ki Sabji! This simple dish proves that you don't need a complicated list of exotic ingredients to achieve incredible flavor. It’s a testament to the magic of everyday Indian cooking: perfectly soft, subtly spiced potatoes and tender eggplant simmered to perfection. Whether you’re serving it with a basket of fresh, fluffy rotis or a simple bowl of dal and rice, this sabji is guaranteed to bring a genuine smile to the table. Give it a try this week, and don't forget to share your photos and tell me in the comments below: What comforting childhood dish should I recreate next? Happy cooking! 🔪 😋
Preparation time - 5 minutes
Cooking time - 10 minutes
Serves - 2 persons
Ingredients to make Aaloo Baigan:
1 tablespoon oil
1 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon chopped green chillies
8 to 10 curry leaves
1 small tomato finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon asafoetida
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 cup chopped potatoes ( with skin)
You can remove the skin
1 cup chopped brinjal
Salt to taste
2 teaspoon kashmiri red chilli powder
1 teaspoon cumin coriander powder
1 tablespoon chopped jaggery
For garnishing:
Chopped coriander leaves
Method to make Aaloo Baigan:
- Wash and chop potato, brinjal and tomato.
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker and add mustard seeds and cumin seeds in it.
- When they crackles add asafoetida, curry leaves, turmeric powder, green chilli and chopped tomatoes to it. Mix well.
- Add chopped potatoes and brinjal to it. And then add salt to it. Mix well and add 1/4 cup water to it.
- Shut the lid and pressure cook for one whistle.
- Let it cool itself
- Open the lid and add remaining spices to it. Mix and again cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
- At last add chopped coriander to it.
- Our super healthy, home style Aaloo Baigan is ready to serve.
- Serve it piping hot with roti, paratha, puri etc.
- Even it tastes good with khichdi also.
- You can change the proportion of potato and brinjal as per your choice.
- You can add chopped onion also.
