Baingan Bartha is very tasty and popular dish in North Karnataka and Maharashtra regions in India. Brinjals or Eggplants (as they are called in US) are grown abundantly in those geographies and finds it's place in almost every meal in some form or the other in these regions. Several varieties of Eggplants are grown around the world and the one generally used for making Bartha in North Karnataka zone are smaller bulb shaped ones and not the long ones. Typically, Baingan Bartha involves burning the raw Eggplant in hot ashes of old wood stove. But these days cooking methods have changed, and we rarely use wood to cook food, unless we are out on camping. Here is a faster and simpler method to get this dish going in US, where, most houses have Electric Coil stove.

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