Bonjan salad is spicy and delicious salad prepared with egg plant. Bonjan or egg plant salad is a lovely salad from Afghanistan tradition. Eggplants are cut into pieces, are lightly fried and spiced with few ingredients. Eggplants are highly nutrient rich, a good source of phytonutrients , vitamin B1 and K, potassium, copper, manganese,etc. Thus including Bonjan salad in your weekly diet is really healthy.
INGREDIENTS FOR PREPARATION
- Egg plant: 3 medium
- Onion: 1 small
- Tomato: 1 small
- Tomato sauce: 1&1/2 cup
- Red chilly flakes: 1 tsp
- Pepper powder: 1/4 tsp
- Cinnamon powder: 2 tsp
- Kosher salt: 2 tsp
- Yogurt:1 cup(optional)
- Oil: 1/4 cup
- Salt: if needed.
- Cut the eggplants into 1-1.5 inch pieces and mix kosher salt with it and keep aside for 10-15 minutes.
- Wash and drain the eggplant pieces. This treatment helps in removing its bitterness.
- Heat oil in a pan and fry eggplant pieces for 3-4 minutes or they get light brown color.
- Take another pan and add sliced onion, tomato, tomato sauce, red chilly flakes, pepper powder, cinnamon powder and little salt(if needed) and cook in low flame for 10 minutes.
- Put egg plant pieces in a bowl and pour spiced tomato sauce over it.
- Serve as itself or chilled.