Baingan Pakora

Ingredients

• 1 medium Long Brinjal
• 1 cup Gram Flour
• 200 grams Processed cheese
• Salt to taste
• 1/4 cup Refined flour
• 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder
• 1 teaspoon Ginger-garlic paste
• 1 tablespoon Sweet red chilli sauce
• 4 tablespoons Nylon sev
• Oil for deep-frying
• Thin strips of ginger for garnishing 
• Thin strips of spring onion greens for garnishing 

Method

1. Cut brinjal into roundels.
2. Take a cookie cutter of the diameter of the brinjal roundels and cut out a cylinder from the cheese block and further cut the cylinder into roundels.
3. Sprinkle salt on brinjal roundels.
4. Take gram flour, salt, refined flour, turmeric powder, ginger-garlic paste, red chilli sauce and 2 tablespoons sev in a bowl. Add water as required and mix well into a thick smooth batter.
5. Heat sufficient oil in a kadai.
6. Add remaining sev in the batter and mix well.
7. Place a cheese roundel between two brinjal roundels to make a sandwich. Use up all the brinjal roundels and cheese roundels to make more sandwiches. Dip each sandwich in the batter and deep-fry in hot oil till golden and crisp. Drain on absorbent paper.
8. Garnish with ginger strips and spring onion green strips and serve hot.

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