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Quick Egg Curry

Oct-11-2016
Suganya Hariharan
5 minutes
Prep Time
15 minutes
Cook Time
2 People
Serves
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ABOUT Quick Egg Curry RECIPE

Eggs simmered in spicy & delicious Indian gravy.

Recipe Tags

  • Veg
  • Easy
  • Everyday
  • Tamil Nadu
  • Main Dish
  • Healthy

Ingredients Serving: 2

  1. Eggs - 4
  2. Oil - 2 tbsp
  3. Cumin Seeds/ Jeera - 1 tsp
  4. Red chilli - 2, Broken
  5. Curry Leaves - 1 sprig
  6. Garlic - 4, very finely chopped
  7. Ginger - 1/2 inch, finely chopped
  8. Green chilli - 1, small, finely chopped
  9. Onion - 1 big or 1 cup, very finely chopped
  10. Tomato - 2 small, or 1 cup, very finely chopped
  11. Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
  12. Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
  13. Coriander powder - 1 tsp
  14. Cumin powder - 1 tsp
  15. Pepper powder - 1 tsp
  16. Fennel powder - 1 tsp
  17. Garam masala - ¼ tsp
  18. salt - about 1 tbsp (as per your taste)
  19. Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp, finely chopped, for garnishing

Instructions

  1. Hard boil the eggs by boiling the eggs – Boil water, add a tsp. of salt, add eggs and cook for 10 mins on medium flame. Once done, add them to cold water and set aside for 5 mins, make a small crack using a knife.
  2. Heat oil in a pan; add hing, broken red chilli and jeera and sauté for few seconds. Add chopped onion, curry leaves, chopped ginger and chopped green chilli, chopped garlic and sauté till onion becomes translucent and golden brown.
  3. Now add the chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, pepper powder, garam masala and mix well. Saute it well for 2-3 minutes to raw masala. Now add the eggs and then add ½ cup of water and boil on medium flame closed for 2-3 minutes.
  4. It will reduce into an onion tomato pasty consistency and will ooze out oil on sides.
  5. Finish with coriander leaves and serve it hot!

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natasha sampath
Feb-05-2017
natasha sampath   Feb-05-2017

Tried this last night and my hubby just loved it.

Bishal Sika
Dec-03-2016
Bishal Sika   Dec-03-2016

Ohhh egg...... My fav.

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