July 30-31, 2011: Spiced Yoghurt Eggplant & Naan

July as well as August's calendar recipes were designed to survive cooked together, as well as nosotros constitute enough of fourth dimension to produce this on the final weekend inwards July. I started out amongst the naan on Sat - my dry out yeast was a chip one-time as well as I couldn't move every bit much flour into the dough every bit the recipe listed, but they withal puffed upwardly nicely inwards the frypan. The exam naan nosotros nibbled was lovely, calorie-free as well as buttery though a piffling sugariness for our taste.

On Lord's Day Michael took responsibleness for the spiced yoghurt eggplant. The eggplant rounds soaked upwardly staggering amounts of crude oil every bit nosotros fried them - we'll purpose a much lighter acquit upon side past times side time. The sauce is a cinch to stir together but a piffling to a greater extent than assist is needed to create the eggplant inwards it, if yous desire to retain their shape. While they weren't just pretty they were very, rattling tasty. The naan was perfect for mopping upwardly the extra turmeric-stained crude oil on our plates. Leftovers microwaved magnificently, stretching the repast into August every bit intended.

Spiced yoghurt eggplant
(a recipe that seems to survive online here, here as well as here)

two large eggplants
1 tablespoon oil
two light-green cardamom pods
1/4 teaspoon asafoetida powder
1 loving cup yoghurt
two teaspoons fennel seed pulverization
1/4 teaspoon turmeric pulverization
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 teaspoon terra firma ginger
salt
to a greater extent than crude oil to fry

Slice the eggplant into thick rounds as well as little them inwards crude oil until golden brown. You tin deep-fry, shallow-fry or alternatively recipes tell yous tin brush the eggplant inwards crude oil as well as grill it - though they may hateful American grilling, which I'd telephone scream upwardly barbecuing or dry-frying. Drain the eggplant on absorbent newspaper in i lawsuit cooked.

Heat the tablespoon of crude oil over medium rut inwards a large pot. Add the cardamom pods as well as asafoetida, tossing them around, as well as thence stir inwards the yoghurt. Add the fennel, turmeric, chilli as well as ginger powders, stirring to combine as well as cooking for well-nigh iv minutes. Add the fried eggplant, gently layering them upwardly as well as slathering them inwards the yoghurt every bit yous go. Turn downward the heat, encompass the saucepan, as well as create gently for a farther iv minutes. Season to sense of savor as well as serve amongst naan as well as fresh greens.

Naan
(looks similar it's sourced from allrecipes.com)

1 x 7g package active dry out yeast
1 loving cup warm water
1/4 loving cup castor saccharide (I would purpose less side past times side time)
iii tablespoons milk
1 egg, lightly beaten
two teaspoons salt
iii 1/2 cups breadstuff flour, addition extra for dusting
1/4 loving cup butter, melted

In a large bowl, stir together the yeast as well as warm H2O until the yeast is completely dissolved. Let the mixture residual for 10 minutes, afterwards which it should survive a chip frothy. Stir inwards the sugar, milk, egg, as well as salt, as well as thence gradually add together flour to brand a soft dough (the master copy recipe had iv 1/2 cups flour, but I couldn't move that much into it). Knead the dough for 6-8 minutes, until smooth. Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled bowl, encompass it amongst a damp stuff as well as ready it aside to ascension for well-nigh an hour.

By this fourth dimension the dough should accept doubled inwards book (mine hadn't, but I persevered anyway). Pinch off golf game ball-sized portions of dough, whorl them into balls as well as house them on a baking tray. Cover the tray amongst a towel as well as allow the dough to ascension for a farther xxx minutes. They should double inwards book in i lawsuit again (mine didn't).

Heat upwardly as well as lightly grease a frypan. Roll out a dough-ball at a fourth dimension into a sparse circle or oval (mine were well-nigh 4mm thick) as well as prevarication them out inwards the frypan, cooking for 2-3 minutes on the commencement side. When it's lightly browned as well as a chip puffy, brush the top side amongst melted butter as well as flip the naan over to create on the other side for 2-4 minutes. Transfer the finished naan to a plate as well as transcend on amongst the remaining dough. Serve warm amongst your favourite curry.