{"id":20575,"date":"2020-12-06T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T22:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=20575"},"modified":"2020-12-06T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T22:39:22","slug":"baigan-bharta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/baigan-bharta\/","title":{"rendered":"Baigan Bharta (eggplant and spinach)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Eggplant\n<ul>\n<li>Cut eggplant into 1\/4 inch medallions<\/li>\n<li>Cover heavily in salt<\/li>\n<li>Let rest 30 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Onion &#8211; Diced<\/li>\n<li>Spinach &#8211; Destemmed, rinsed, spin<\/li>\n<li>Prepare Curry\n<ul>\n<li>1 pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 clove<\/li>\n<li>1 cooriander<\/li>\n<li>1 cayenne<\/li>\n<li>2-3 cumin<\/li>\n<li>2 turmeric<\/li>\n<li>1 cardamom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rinse eggplant twice and pat dry<\/li>\n<li>Prepare clarified butter by heating over heat for about 20 minutes.&nbsp; Pour off top, discarding the milk solids<\/li>\n<li>Toast mustard seeds<\/li>\n<li>In hot cast iron add clarified butter to smoke point<\/li>\n<li>Add the eggplant, but don&#8217;t crowd the pan\n<ul>\n<li>Sear and remove<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Add the onion to the emptied pan and caramelize &#8211; 10-15 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Add garlic and ginger and toss<\/li>\n<li>Add spices right after tossing, then cook about 2 more minutes<\/li>\n<li>Add 2 C water or broth and bring to a boil<\/li>\n<li>Add 1\/4 C brown sugar and dried spinach<\/li>\n<li>Reduce liquid substantially, then add eggplant<\/li>\n<li>Cook 6-10 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Serve over Basmati Rice with a side of DAL (lentils), yogurt and tomatoes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eggplant Cut eggplant into 1\/4 inch medallions Cover heavily in salt Let rest 30 minutes Onion &#8211; Diced Spinach &#8211; Destemmed, rinsed, spin Prepare Curry 1 pepper 1 clove 1 cooriander 1 cayenne 2-3 cumin 2 turmeric 1 cardamom Rinse eggplant twice and pat dry Prepare clarified butter by heating over heat for about 20 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/baigan-bharta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baigan Bharta (eggplant and spinach)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20579,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575\/revisions\/20579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}