^{This is piya
From Bangladesh}

Hello everyone!

I have joined this platform almost one year ago and I have learned things here. I participated different types of contest but food related contest bring smile on my face. I love cooking and cooking with some conditions is really awesome thing to do. Thank you @ripon0630 Vaiya for arranging this beautiful contest. When I saw this contest announcement and make out that I have to cook something with only 5 ingredients. I thought It will be difficult. Some recipe immediately came to my mind but those are not with 5 ingredients. Finally I figure out a recipe with 5 ingredients. It is one of the traditional foods of our country Bangladesh. I am inviting my friend to participate in this contest
@pathanapsana
@arjinarahman and
@jannatmou

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Name of the Item : Fried Eggplant

Five Ingredients of the recipe

In this food item you do not have to worry about the ingredients. You can make this foo item with five ingredients and less efforts.

Cooking Process

Minimal ingredient makes cooking easier. First take two eggplants. Here I used two big size and round shaped eggplant for frying. Then cut the eggplant with knife into small round pieces. I found insect into an eggplant and throw that by cutting the eggplant.

Now take others ingridients. Here I used 2bts chili powder, 1/2 tbs salt and 1 tbs turmeric powder. And mixed this ingredients with water. I made thick pest of this.

In thus step, I take single eggplant piece and cover that eggplant with spice pest. And then follow this for all pieces.

Now take a pan. Heat it low flame. Drop oil on the pan. After a munites place the eggplants pieces in the pan. It doesn’t take much time to cook. Then cover the pan for 2-3 minutes. Switch the eggplant pieces if one side is cooked properly. It turn into brown colur after cooking.

Now power off your oven after the colour turns into brown and serve it in serving plate.

How did you choose the five ingredients you used in your recipe? Are these readily available in your local area, or do you grow them?

It is winter season in Bangladesh, and in the winter season eggplant is my top favorite vegetable so I selecte eggplant to cook and as I told you it is a traditional food recipe so I know the rest of needed ingredients name. Yes, eggplants are available in our local area. Not only available in market but also I have a eggplant plant and there grows small eggplants. I used chili powder for spice, Turmeric powder for colour and salt for test.

What challenges did you face when working with only five ingredients?

I didn’t faced any major challenges while cook with only five ingredients. But it would be better if I could use few morr ingridients.

Can you explain how this recipe reflects your personal cooking style or philosophy?

Cooking is an art and every chefs has his own cooking style. I love free style cooking. I do not follow a to z recipe to cook any item. This recipe is an exame of my free style cooking. If you search on youtube for this recipe you will find many changes compare to my recipe because I follow my own cooking style. so I can say that, this recipe reflects my personal style of cooking.

What are some tips you have for other cooks who are looking to create a recipe with a minimal ingredient list?

My tip for other cook who want to create a recipe with minium ingredient then at first decided what do you want to cook. I mean sweetend item, spice item, sour item etc. After selecting it cook the item with minium ingredients or use only basic ingredients. When you have decided to cook sweetened food just use main ingredient and sweet agent ingredient. It is very easy and simple way to cook with minimal ingredient. If you are cordial to cook then anything is possible to cook. Sometimes we use more ingridients just to satisfy our-self.

Which Steemian's would you like to share this recipe with?

I would like to share this recipe with @jannatmou because she always loves my food recipe post and she is a good cook too.

💞Thanks everyone for reading this.💞

Regards

@pea07