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Sri Lankan Fried Brinjal Curry

written by Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi August 26, 2013


Sri Lankan Recipe:Fried Brinjal Curry with coconut milk (Wambatu Curry)

Wambatu Curry-Sri Lankan Fried Brinjal Curry
Sri Lankan Brinjal Curry/Wambatu Curry
Brinjal (Wambatu) is delicious in a curry when it is deep fried. In Sri Lankan cooking, we use brinjal in different ways. One of the most popular is Brinjal Moju.Other than that,brinjal is delicious when cooked with coconut milk.Check this  Brinjal Curry recipe for another way to cook.

Sri Lankan Food Recipes-Brinjal curry
In Sri Lanka, we are able to buy brinjal which is small in size.(thickness) So, it is easy to deep fry with the purple skin on pieces. However, brinjal I buy here in Singapore is quite bigger. Therefore I have to cut the flesh into small pieces which is mostly white in colour. That doesn’t give the nice colour I want in my dish.
This Brinjal curry is more delicious when some MaldiveFish(umbalakada) is added. But it is optional and without adding it, this curry can be cooked as a vegetarian dish.

Sri Lankan Fried Brinjal Curry-Wambatu Thel dala
Here is the Sri Lankan recipe for Brinjal Curry. Hope you would like it!
Ingredients: (for 2-3 servings)
2 Medium sized  Brinjal
1 large Onion
2 cloves Garlic
3-4 Green chilli
½ tspn mustard seeds
1 tspn curry powder
½ tspn turmeric powder
1 tbsp Chilli powder
¼ tspn fenugreek seeds
Piece of cinnamon
¼ cup thick Coconut milk
1 sprig Curry Leave
2 inch piece of Pandan leaf/Rampe (optional)
1 tbspn Maldive Fish (optional)
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Method
Slice Brinjal lengthwise into small pieces. Wash & squeeze the water out. Mix with turmeric powder & deep fry them until golden brown. Remove, place on paper towel to drain excess oil.

Wambatu thel dala
Slice onion,green chilli and garlic.
Heat a pan with 2-3 tbspn oil. Add mustard seeds & let it fry.
Once mustard seeds start splutter, add onion, garlic, green chilli, curry leaf and pandan leave.
Sauté until onions are golden colour.
Then add curry powder, chili powder, fenugreek seeds and cinnamon stick & mix well.
Add deep fried eggplant & mix well. Add salt as per taste. Also add Maldive Fish (umbalakada) to the mix.(optional)
Then add coconut milk and allow to cook on low flame for few minutes and remove from flame. Make sure not to add more coconut milk at once. Add it slowly keeping eye to the amount of gravy. This dish is delicious when it is dry.
Serve with rice & enjoy!

Sri Lankan Recipes
Sri Lankan Brinjal Curry (fried)

 (In Sri Lanka, usually we mix brinjal with turmeric & salt together before deep frying. But I found salt makes them wet & bit difficult to fry sometimes. So I only use turmeric powder)

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Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi

Amila Gamage is the blogger behind Food Corner. She is a Sri Lankan living in Singapore and shares her cooking adventures in this blog. Apart from recipes, you will also find travel, health and kitchen inspirations in this blog. She is the founder of Sihela Consultants. (www.sihelaconsultants.com) She started writing this blog in 2011 and still continuing.

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20 comments

mail4rosey August 26, 2013 - 2:11 am

I bet it smells good cooking too. Thank you for linking up at Super Sunday Sync!

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Amila Wickramarachchi August 26, 2013 - 11:27 pm

glad to see you here,yes it smells good…

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wilson tom August 26, 2013 - 8:36 am

Hi I am a new follower to your lovely blog (Via GFC)with this blog i feeling really hungry. Found you through Monday Mingling. Was busy last month due to sister’s marriage so was not regular in blogging, but now will regular and waiting for your next post.

my blog: http://www.wilsontom.blogspot.com

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Amila Wickramarachchi August 26, 2013 - 11:28 pm

thanks for following Food Corner,You have a nice blog too…
Nice photos of sister’s wedding!

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Nilu A August 26, 2013 - 9:13 am

This is really new to me Amila.. Looks delicious and totally different 🙂

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Amila Wickramarachchi August 26, 2013 - 11:28 pm

please try it,sure you’d love it 🙂

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Priya Suresh August 26, 2013 - 9:17 am

Omg, such a droolworthy brinjal curry, prefect side dish for rice.

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Amila Wickramarachchi August 26, 2013 - 11:29 pm

thanks Priya,yes it is my favourite too….

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Judy Haughton-James August 26, 2013 - 7:02 pm

This dish certainly looks good Amila! I like curry and use it to cook a variety of dishes. I would love to try this.

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Amila Wickramarachchi August 26, 2013 - 11:29 pm

thanks Judy,Please try it

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Shruti August 26, 2013 - 11:37 pm

You gave me a way to start liking brinjals… 😀 I’m in constrant try to include this veggie in my list, as hubby loves it n I hate it 😛 This one looks tempting to make it soon…

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Amila Wickramarachchi August 27, 2013 - 1:59 am

haha try this recipe,sure both of you would like it…. 🙂

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Sayantani August 27, 2013 - 6:16 am

so glad to find you Amila. Love Sri Lankan cuisine and saw a simila type of recipe on Peter Kuruvila’s show a few days back. will definitely give it a try.

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Amelia August 27, 2013 - 11:45 am

Hi Amila, this look so inviting and awesome. Must have extra rice to go with this dish. Thanks for sharing your recipe.

Best regards.

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Swathi Iyer August 27, 2013 - 3:28 pm

Delicious brinjal curry love anything with coconut milk.

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Maha Gadde August 29, 2013 - 7:01 pm

Very healthy and delicious luking curry…goes well vth curd rice for me..

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Chitz August 31, 2013 - 9:00 am

This is an interesting recipe.. I love anything with coconut milk in it. Wud try this one 🙂

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Anonymous December 12, 2014 - 1:25 pm

oh, I loved this dish during my holidays in Sri Lanka. great!!! have to try this recipe soon

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recipe June 29, 2016 - 4:15 am

Good article, it’s very helpful to all. I am very impressed about that you mentioned in this article, thanks for sharing this post. I got best useful information from your site’s blog.

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