Gutti Vankaya

This is a very famous and special dish in Andhra Pradesh and if properly made, tastes delicious :)
I like Brinjal (baby eggplant) a lot and hence like all brinjal dishes :) But gutti vankai is the one of the best brinjal dishes one can prepare :)

Coming to the preparation.....

Ingredients:
1) Small Brinjal (5 - 7)
2) Groundnuts (Peanuts) - 1 small cup
3) Sesame seeds - 1/4 cup
4) Chilly powder 1 table spoon
5) Sambar powder - 2 table spoons
6) Salt - as per your taste.

Procedure:
1) Roast groundnuts in a pan without oil.
2) Once the above step is done, roast sesame seeds.
3) Let both groundnuts and sesame seeds cool down a bit and then put these two into mixer jar and add 2 spoons of sambar powder and 1 spoon of chilly powder, 1-2 spoons of salt(as per your taste) and grind it well.
4) Cut the brinjals into in a way that you can stuff the above powder into it (as shown below).

5) Take a pan or cooker, add 3 spoons of oil and place stuffed brinjal into it pour one small cup of water.
6) Make sure that you have masala powder left after stuffing brinjal so that you can add on top the brinjal and water.
7) Cook in the cooker till 1 whistle and switch it off.
8) Wait for 10 mins and Gutti vankai is ready.



This goes well with Rice and also with chapathis.

Note that this is not an authentic recipe for gutti vankai but it tastes really good.