{"id":10250,"date":"2026-02-15T19:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:02:36","slug":"bouranee-baunjan-eggplant-with-yoghurt-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/bouranee-baunjan-eggplant-with-yoghurt-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouranee Baunjan (Eggplant With Yoghurt Sauce)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>4 medium eggplants 1 kg total<br \/>\n1 salt<br \/>\n1 oil<br \/>\n2 each medium onions, sliced<br \/>\n1 each green pepper, seeded, sliced<br \/>\n2 each large ripe tomatoes, peeled<br \/>\n1 salt<br \/>\n1\/4 tsp. hot chili pepper<br \/>\n1\/4 C. water<br \/>\n2 C. chakah, drained yogurt<br \/>\n2 each garlic cloves<br \/>\n1 salt to taste<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cut the stems from the eggplants and leave peel. Slice into 1 cm pieces. Spread on a tray  and sprinkle slices liberally with salt. Leave for 30 minutes, then dry well with paper  towels.  Pour enough oil into skillet with a lid, to cover base well. Fry eggplant until lightly  browned on each side. Do not cook completely. Lift onto a plate. Add more oil as  required for remaining slices. As oil drains out of eggplant, return this to the pan and add  onions. Fry gently till translucent. Remove to another plate.  Place a layer of eggplant back into the pan. Top with some sliced onion, green pepper  rings and tomato slices. Repeat using remaining ingredients and adding a little salt and  the chili between layers. Pour in any remaining oil from the eggplant. Add onion and  water, cover and simmer gently for 10 to 15 minutes.  Combine chakah ingredients and spread half the sauce into base of serving dish. Top  with vegetables, lifting eggplant gently to keep slices intact. Leave some of the juices in  the pan.  Top vegetables with the rest of the chakah and drizzle the remaining juices over it. Serve  with flat bread.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day--&quot; (Colossians 2:16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vegetarian<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/bouranee-baunjan-eggplant-with-yoghurt-sauce\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetarian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/vegetarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}