Take the baby eggplant and slit it from the center. Fry it in hot oil and keep it aside. Take out half the masala and add the crushed peanut. Stuff the fried eggplant with this masala and keep aside.
Easy, safer, and very effective. The original recipe then adds six tablespoons of ricotta to the chopped eggplant — annoying ... misshapen blobs the size of a baby’s fist after wrestling ...