SPICY OVEN BAKED BRINJAL CRISPS

This oven baked brinjal crisps is a great snack on a rainy day. This is a quite common snack in India which is often available in bakeries in India, but "DEEP FRIED". I just wanted to break that "FRYING" part. Tried  the same thing in the oven. With olive oil and the same Indian spices it came out very well. Spicy too.........I had the small stripy brinjals which are little bit bitter compared to the long ones.

If you prefer to avoid the bitter part use the long purple brinjals. You can check on the health benefits of eating brinjal  in the link below. By cooking this way you can get the wholesome benefit of brinjals which is good for diabetic and high cholestrol patients.

Ingredients:(makes a small bowl of crisps around 150 gms)

Stripy small brinjals-11

Olive oil/ any cooking oil- 1 tbspn

Turmeric powder- 1 tspn

Chilly powder- 1 tspn

Garam masala- 1 tspn

Salt to taste

Method:

Wash the brinjals and pat it dry. Cut the green  stems of the brinjal and cut the brinjals into very thin slices.

brinjals

Place the cut slices of brinjal in a bowl and add the spices, salt and oil and let it marinate for 15 minutes.

Marinated brinjal slices

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease the baking tray with little cooking oil and place the marinated brinjal slices one by one and fry them in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 degrees until very crispy and done.

Place in the baking tray