Gutti vankaya recipe – Gutti vankaya kura is a popular stuffed brinjal curry recipe from Andhra Cuisine. We make it often at home to go with plain rice or chapati. It is the same as enne badanekai from the North Karnataka cuisine. Sesame seeds are used in north Karnataka which I have not used here.
You may also like to check this Gutti dry vankaya fry. To make most stuffed brinjal curry recipes, ingredients like onions, peanuts, coconut, red chilis and mild spices are used.
This andhra style brinjal curry goes perfectly well with white rice, chapathi or even with biryani. Yes, in tamil nadu, biryani is served with egg plant curry. Even in Hyderabadi cuisine, this Bagara baingan is served with biryani.
To make enne badanekai or nune vankaya, brinjal is first stuffed with masala and then shallow fried in oil. To make this healthy, I haven’t used much oil. I just sauteed in little oil.
Step-by-step photos
How to make stuffed brinjal curry
1. Dry roast red chilies and peanuts on a low to medium flame. Peanuts must turn golden, must be roasted well. Chilies must turn crisp. If using red chili powder, skip using chilies.
2. Lower the flame completely.Add coriander, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom. Toss for a minute without burning.
3. Add grated or chopped coconut. Saute until it turns aromatic.
4. Wash brinjals and slit them diagonally with the stalks intact. Keep them in salted water till we use. Cool them and add to a blender with salt and lemon juice or tamarind paste.
5. Blend well to a fine powder. Check the taste and if needed add more chili powder, salt or lemon juice.
6. Stuff the brinjals with the ground powder.
7. Heat a pan with oil. Splutter mustard and cumin. Add curry leaves and hing too.
8. Add onions and slit green chili. Fry until they turn golden.
9. Add ginger garlic paste. Fry until the raw smell goes away.
10. This step is optional. You can also skip using tomato. Add tomato, very little salt and turmeric. You can also add a bit of chili powder if desired.
11. Saute until the tomatoes turn mushy and blend well with onions.
12. Add the stuffed brinjals. Saute them well for 2 to 3 mins.
13. Add water just enough to cook them and make a gravy. If any powdered stuffing is left, you can add that now to the pan.
14. Cook covered on a low to medium heat, stirring occasionally. Adjust the amount of water to make thin gravy.
15. When the brinjals are wilted off completely and the skin looks loose, it means they are cooked well. Taste the brinjal curry and adjust the salt. Sprinkle coriander leaves.
Serve gutti vankaya kura with rice, roti or plain biryani.
If you love brinjal, You may like this collection of brinjal recipes. For more brinjal curry recipes, you can also check Aloo baingan masala.
Recipe
Gutti vankaya curry or Stuffed brinjal curry recipe
Gutti vankaya kura or curry
Ingredients (1 cup = 240ml )
- 4 to 6 brinjals or vankayalu (young egg plants)
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- ¾ cup onions thinly sliced
- 1 tomato small , chopped (optional)
- 2 green chili slit
- 1 to 1½ tbsp lemon juice or tamarind paste as needed
- 1 Handful coriander leaves chopped
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- ¼ tsp mustard
- ½ tsp cumin (or jeera)
- 2 tbsp oil
to roast and powder
- 4 tbsp peanuts
- 2 tbsp coconut desiccated or fresh coconut
- 1 to 2 tbsp sesame seeds or nuvvulu (optional)
- 1 tbsp coriander seeds (or sabut daniya)
- ½ tsp cumin (or jeera)
- 1 cinnamon stick small (or dalchini, optional)
- 2 cloves (or laung, optional)
- 2 green cardamom (or elaichi, optional)
- 4 to 6 red chilies or 1 tsp red chili powder (byadgi chilies or any red chili pow)
How to make the recipe
Preparation
- Roast and powder all the ingredients under to roast and powder. Each ingredient to be roasted separately/ add salt and lemon juice and mix well.
- Wash and cut brinjals with one end of the brinjal and the stalk leaving intact.
- keep them immersed in salted water till you use.
making gutti vankaya kura
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard, cumin and curry leaves,
- Once they begin to splutter, add onions and green chilies, fry till they turn golden.
- Add ginger garlic paste and fry until the raw smell goes away. Add chopped tomato, turmeric and salt. Cook until the tomato turns mushy. If needed cover and cook on a low heat.
- Stuff the brinjals and add them to the pan and fry just for 2 to 3 minutes. Make sure the brinjals are coated with enough oil. do not burn
- Pour water just enough to cook brinjals. Adjust salt. Cover and cook on a low to medium flame.
- Once they are fully cooked and tender, add the finely chopped coriander leaves. cover and off the heat.
- Serve gutti vankaya kura with rice or chapathi.
NUTRITION (estimation only)
Notes
Alternative quantities provided in the recipe card are for 1x only, original recipe.
For best results follow my detailed step-by-step photo instructions and tips.
kala says
I’ve been following Swathi’s recipes for sometime now.. Everytime they turned out good
and this one too.
Thank you for awesome recipes.
swasthi says
Hi Kala
You are welcome!
Thank you so much!
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Soujanya says
This is for the first time i happen to cook this recipe which turned to be a big success …thank u swathi garu. I do follow your recipes many a times. Keep up the work Mam..
Prathibha Shridhara Metgal says
Having tasted this in andhra many times I wanted to try this and was so glad you had posted this recipe. Fail proof recipes always! Loved it so much. Thank you!
Srinivas says
Successfully cooked with white Brinjal. Used readymade coconut powder..fried slightly. Due to shortage of time cooked in the pressure cooker in low flame for two whistles. The result is excellent. And the combination next was Tomato rasam with the left over powder paste made for the gutti vankaay stuffing. Oh…it is too good. Thank you Madam.
swasthi says
Hi Srinivas Garu,
You are welcome! So glad it turned out good. Thank you very much
Swathi says
Sooo yummy! This is my first ever recipe comment, I had to leave a word.
I doubled the recipe and roasted a bit of tamarind with the spice mix. Added a couple of tomatoes (pureed) as I wanted a thicker gravy.. Also squeezed a bit of lemon at the end.
It turned out beautifully, this recipe is a keeper!! Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
swasthi says
Hi Swathi,
Glad you liked the curry.Yes tamarind is a good addition. Thank you!
Tanushree says
Swathi mam, I tried your recipe today. It tasted great.thank you .
swasthi says
Welcome Tanushree
Radha says
Hey u didn’t mention tomatoes in ingredients. How many should I use?
swasthi says
Hi Radha,
The recipe needs 1 small tomato (optional)
Harsha says
Thanks very much for the recipe, I’ve tried it a few time and it’s a hit every single time.
I have a question though, when we make roasted spice powder for this recipe and a few others, can I use dried coconut powder instead of fresh coconut?
Thanks again.
swasthi says
Hi Harsha
You are welcome. It actually depends on the recipe. Some recipes actually taste much better with dried coconut – copra (not desiccated coconut). But the dried coconut should not have even little oily or rancid smell.Yes for this recipe you can use. Here is a brief info
Fresh coconut lends a milky taste.
dried coconut – copra lends a more intense nutty flavor with sweet tones.
desiccated coconut lends volume and is tasteless since it is processed heavily. Hope this helps
Prasanthi says
Thank you
swasthi says
Welcome Prasanthi
Annapurna says
Tried the recipe today n it came out so delicious… Thank you very much.
swasthi says
Hi Annapurna,
You are welcome. Thank you so much. Happy to know your gutti vankaya turned out good.
Madhuri says
Where was the tamarind used in stuffed gutti vankaya curry?
swasthi says
Add the tamarind paste or lemon juice to the roasted & powdered ingredients.
Kushlani says
Tried this at home. Very nice. The whole family like this. Thank you.
swasthi says
Welcome Kushlani
Tj says
I love u r recipe
swasthi says
Hi Tj
Thank you so much!
Kiran says
We cooked idlis @ home,It was marvelous,
Thank you
swasthi says
You are welcome Kiran,
thanks for the comment.
Harshinee says
I tried your recipe today…it came out so well…came out so tasty as i expected ☺️
swasthi says
Thanks for trying Harshinee
Vids says
Your recipe was just simple and the dish turned out awesome. Thank you! Am just loving every bite of it !!
swasthi says
Hi Vid
You are welcome. So happy to know you loved it.
🙂
VIDS says
How can I share a pic with you ?
swasthi says
Hi Vids
Thank you!
You can send it to contact(at)indianhealthyrecipes.com
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Farida Banu says
Awesome Recipe
swasthi says
Thanks Farida
deepa mohan says
I tried it last week. It tasted very good. My son liked it a lot.
swasthi says
Thank you so much Deepa
Prathyusha says
Its been almost 1.5 year i been following your blog,i was a newly married wife back then with zero cooking experience and your blog saved me from all the typical kitchen failures one h will have while trying for the first time.thanks a ton for making me learn cooking so easily.
swasthi says
Welcome Prathyusha
Glad to know you. Thank you so much for the comment. So happy to know the recipes have been useful. Happy Diwali to both of you.
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Niranjan says
Swasthi, I just finished cooking your recipe. Came out superb. I added sesame and tomatoes as well as lemon juice. The lemon juice adds a lot to the taste and kicks it up a notch. Thanks a bunch.
swasthi says
Welcome Niranjan
Thanks for trying. Glad you liked it.
SK says
Our whole family loved it Swasthi. We had a great festive food 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful recipe.
swasthi says
Welcome Sk,
Glad you all liked it. Thanks for the comment.
🙂