Last week, I hosted a lunch and, as always, made this recipe as the vegetarian option on the menu. Among the guests was a friend’s mother visiting from Pakistan. When she saw her daughter filling her plate with these baingans, she looked genuinely surprised. The conversation (in Urdu) went something like this:
Mother: tum baingan kha rai ho? (You’re eating baingan?)
Friend: ji (Yes)
Mother: Tum to ghar pe nhi khati thein… (You never used to eat those back home!)
Friend: Q k ap aisy nhi banati thein. (because, you never made them like this) 😀
Not just them, everyone loved the Borani Banjan and asked for the recipe. Honestly, this has been happening at almost every dawat lately, and I don’t know why I’ve been sleeping on sharing it!
Believe it or not, I actually filmed this recipe almost over a year ago, but it somehow slipped into my archives and never made it out. This time, though, I gave myself a deadline, and finally, here we are!
Dair aye, durust aye! (Better late than never) 😀
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