This is an easy and quick side dish made in Odisha style. Simple delicacy takes only 15 minutes or less to make this recipe.

Dahi Baingan | Odia Dahi Baigana | Brinjals in Curd Gravy
This is one popular side dish or accompaniment from Odisha. In Kolkata, it's also one of the most loved foods. As the name says, it has two main ingredients: dahi (curd) and baingan (eggplants/ brinjal). This is very simple and easy to prepare. There are two ways to prepare this dahi baingan.
Method I
This dahi baingan takes less than 10 minutes to prepare. It is just like raita, in which the curd is not cooked. This is a no-flour dish since we are not adding flour to make the curd base thicker.
The only thing we need to do is marinate diced eggplant with salt, turmeric powder, and coriander powder and then shallow fry spiced brinjal pieces until cr
Then prepare whisked curd (thick) and add red chili powder and salt to this.
Add shallow fried brinjals to curd and mix gently.
Then, prepare a tempering of asafoetida, curry leaves, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, onions, green/red chilies, and ginger juliennes.
Pour this tempering into the curd and eggplant mixture.
Method II
First 2 steps are same.
Then heat oil, add spices, 1 tbsp gram flour and saute. Then add curd and stir continuously.
Then add fried brinjals to this. Dahi Baingan is ready.
At home, my mom typically makes it in 1st method described.
This is the easiest of all and is prepared with minimal ingredients. I have described it step by step. It won't take more than 10 minutes to prepare for 2 - 4 servings.
Dahi Baingan | Odia Dahi Baigana
Ingredients
- 250 gms brinjals
- 250 gms hung curd
- 5 - 6 tbsp oil to fry Preferably mustard oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 2 - 3 dry red chillies
- ¼ tsp asafoetida/ hing
- ½ tsp red chilli powder (optional)
- 6 - 8 curry leaves
- ½ tsp salt (as per taste)
- ½ tsp finely chopped ginger
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves (to garnish)
Instructions
- Wash and clean brinjals. Cut the crowns.
- Chop into desired size like cubes or slices. I have made small sized cubes.
- Marinate with salt and spices for 5 minutes
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Shallow fry brinjals till they are cooked and soft.
- In a bowl take curd and beat to smooth with a whisk.
- Season with salt. Pour in fried brinjals to the curd bowl.
Prepare Tampering
- Heat oil in a pan. add mustard seeds and cumin seeds to splutter.
- Add chopper ginger, red chilli, curry leaves and green chillies.
- Saute for a minute.
- Add hing, red chilli powder. Immediately turn off gas to avoid burning of spices.
- Wait for 10 - 15 seconds letting it cool slightly before adding this tampering to the curd mixture.
- Pour in the tampering to the mixture and mix well.
Garnish & Serve
- Dahi Baingan is ready. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve.
How to make dahi baingan
- Wash and clean brinjals/ eggplants. Chop into cubes/ slices.
2. Marinate with salt and spices.
3. Keep it for 5 - 7 minutes.
4. Heat oil in a pan or kadai. Shallow fry the marinated eggplants
5. In the meanwhile, whisk curd for a minute to smooth.
6. Once the brinjals are cooked and soft add them to the curd and mix gently once.
7. Then prepare tampering.
8. Pour in the tampering to the curd and fried eggplant mixture.
9. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve.
If you love curd base recipes then try out our Methi Palak Kadhi, Rajasthani Gatte ki Sabzi, Kashmiri Dum Aloo, Paneer Tikka Masala. Also read our curd special raita and buttermilk recipes like carrot raita, coriander & curd dip, bathua raita, lauki raita, boondi raita.
Also read my other egg plant recipes like baingan bharta, bagara baingan, achari bharwa baingan, aloo baingan dry.
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