Baigana Poda or roasted aubergine is one of my favorites winter recipes. This typical Odia Recipe is characterized by the frugal use of seasoning. Just some green chillis, chopped onions, garlic, salt and a dash of mustard oil to compliment the smokey sweetness of the tender flesh. Nothing that would reminds one of the more flamboyant 'baingan ka bharta' . But in the food-scape of this vast