The Best Cauliflower Eggplant Recipe | Healthy & Delicious Vegetable

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Last Updated on December 17, 2021 by Sultana Parvin

Cauliflower is a seasonal vegetable, can be eaten in many ways. There are many recipes with only cauliflowers. By adding another vegetable or fish or meat, its taste, and food value increase. Cauliflower Eggplant Recipe is one such item. In this recipe, the main ingredients are cauliflower and eggplant. I add here fish for extra taste and protein. If you don’t want to add fish, you can cook the combination of vegetables with cauliflower and eggplant.

In Cauliflower Eggplant Curry with the fish recipe, I use Hilsha fish (National fish of Bangladesh). You can use any kind of fish like prawn, carp fish, or any other fish as per your choice. Hilsha fish has an awesome flavor and taste of fish itself. Hilsha is famous in Bangladesh and India for its silver outlook, shape, and taste. By its appearance and shape, Sardine fish although looks like Hilsha, but the taste is not the same.

Cauliflower Eggplant Recipe

The Best Cauliflower Eggplant Recipe

Yield: 4
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 Cauliflower head
  • 2 cups of eggplant
  • 4 pieces of hilsha fish
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 1 tablespoon onion slice
  • 1 teaspoon garlic paste
  • 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon cilantro leaves

Instructions

  1. Wash cauliflower and eggplant. Separate florets from the cauliflower head. Cut
    eggplant into 2 inches by 2-inch sizes. Wash pieces of hilsha fish and keep them
    aside.
  2. Heat oil in a pan. Add onion slices to the heated oil. Stir it for one minute. Add garlic paste, cumin powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, chili powder, and salt to the onion slice. Stir them and fry them for 1 minute. Add 1 cup of water to
    the masala mixture. Bring it to boil.
  3. Add fish pieces to the boiling masala. Cook until the gravy is dry. Then add another 1 cup of water. Bring it to boil. Take out fish from the masala. Keep them aside.
    Add cauliflower and coat with masala very well. Cook for 2 minutes. Then add
    eggplant pieces and stir the vegetables. Cover with a lid. Cook until the
    masala is dry.
  4. After drying add another 1 cup of water to the vegetables. Bring to boil and add half-cooked fish to the cauliflower and eggplant curry.
  5. Cook until the water becomes half or as you may keep gravy as per your choice. Sprinkle cilantro leaves over the eggplant and cauliflower curry. Turn off the burner.

Notes

If you want to cook vegan cauliflower eggplant recipe, you can avoid fish. Just follow the process without fish ingredients. You can add tomato and potato. I will make another recipe without fish and will share it with you soon.



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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 147Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 24mgSodium: 627mgCarbohydrates: 11gFiber: 5gSugar: 5gProtein: 14g
Preparation Time10 minutes
Cooking Time20 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Servings4

Ingredients for Cauliflower Eggplant Curry

  • 1 Cauliflower head
  • 2 cups of eggplant
  • 4 pieces of hilsha fish
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 1 tablespoon onion slice
  • 1 teaspoon garlic paste
  • 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 tablespoon cilantro leaves

How to cook Cauliflower Eggplant Curry with Fish

Step 1

Wash cauliflower and eggplant. Separate florets from the cauliflower head. Cut eggplant into 2 inches by 2-inch sizes. Wash pieces of hilsha fish and keep them aside.

Cauliflower eggplant curry
Cauliflower & Eggplant

Step 2

Heat oil in a pan. Add onion slices to the heated oil. Stir it for one minute. Add garlic paste, cumin powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, chili powder, and salt to the onion slice. Stir them and fry them for 1 minute. Add 1 cup of water to the masala mixture. Bring it to boil.

Vegan Cauliflower Eggplant Recipe
Cauliflower and eggplant

Step 3

Add fish pieces to the boiling masala. Cook until the gravy is dry. After that, add another 1 cup of water. Bring it to boil. Take out fish from the masala. Keep them aside.

Step 4

Add cauliflower and coat with masala very well. Cook for 2 minutes. Then add eggplant pieces and stir the vegetables. Cover with a lid. Cook until the masala is dry.

Step 5

Add another 1 cup of water to the vegetables dried up. Bring to boil and add half-cooked fish to the cauliflower and eggplant curry.

Cauliflower eggplant curry with fish
Cauliflower Eggplant with fish

Step 6

Cook until the water becomes half. Or as you may keep gravy as per your choice. Sprinkle cilantro leaves over the eggplant and cauliflower curry. Turn off the burner.

The cauliflower eggplant recipe is not too difficult. Serve with white rice or tortilla as the main dish.

If you want to cook vegan cauliflower eggplant curry, you can avoid fish. Just follow the process without fish ingredients. You can add tomato and potato. Very soon, I will make another Cauliflower Eggplant recipe without fish, will share it with you.

Cauliflower’s Health Benefits

Cauliflower has chemicals that may prevent the development of cancer cells. Anti-inflammatory qualities may aid in immune system stimulation. A serving of cooked cauliflower (75g) provides about 41mg of vitamin C, which is almost 100% of the daily required amount. It may have a beneficial effect on blood pressure, renal function, and cognitive function.

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Sultana Parvin, the owner of this site (sultanarecipe.com) is a passionate recipe builder with thorough knowledge of food, nutrition, and dietary needs for people of different ages and different physical conditions. She has contributed her creative recipes to different food and recipe sites, e-books, and magazines. Sultana is widely experienced on different menu and food courses. With her amazing cooking expertise and innovative ideas, she has been writing various food recipes, particularly those Bangladeshi and Indian traditional main and side dishes like: vegetarian, chicken, meat, fish, desert, rice, noodles, cakes, cookies, soup, smoothies etc. Sultana possesses in depth knowledge on foods’ nutrition value and other relevant contents, such as calorie, carbohydrate, fat, sugar, fiber, sodium, protein etc. of a wide variety of food items. In addition to the taste of food items, Sultana analyses psychology and taste of different categories and ages of people while developing her food recipes. Publications of Sultana Parvin: Sultana wrote a number of Recipe Books, among those following recipe books have been published in Amazon.com: ** Yummy Vegetable Recipes: Delicious Indian Vegetable Dishes ** Authentic Indian Vegetable Dishes **30 Diabetic and Heart Healthy Indian Food Recipes with Nutritional Detail Sultana edited a famous recipe book, namely “Flavors of India and Africa” written by Khatun Gulamani of California, USA.