Thursday, April 30, 2009

Tomato egg curry

Going straight to the recipe today.

Ingredients:( serves 2)

Eggs - 2 (hard boiled and peeled)
Oil - 2 tbspns
Ginger - 1/4 inch piece( sliced)
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tspn
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tspn
Black gram dal (Urud) - 1 tspn
Green chilli - 1 small
Garlic - 1 large clove
Onions - 1 large
Curry powder - 1 tspn( available at indian grocery stores or see masalas recipe)
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 tspn
  • Chilli powder - 1/4 tspn
  • Tomatoes - 4
  • Coriander leaves - 1/8 cup(chopped)
Directions:
  • Heat oil in a pan, add ginger to it and saute for a minute. Remove the ginger from the oil and discard.
  • Splutter some mustard in the ginger infused oil.Add the cumin seeds, black gram dal and green chilli.Saute.
  • Add garlic and saute and before it browns add onions.Saute.
  • Once the onions turn translucent, add salt, turmeric, chilli powder and curry powder.
  • Saute well for about 4-5 mins on a medium flame.
  • Add tomatoes and stir.Cook for a minute, add 1/2 cup water and cover and let cook for 7-8 mins.
  • Add coriander, stir and turn off the flame.
  • Finally, make slits in the hard boiled egg and add to the curry.
  • Serve hot. Partners well with any roti or even rice for a change.
Luv 'n' luc'
Smitha

17 comments:

  1. Nice curry Simtha...must taste delicious with chapathis. Looks spicy :)

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  2. Nice egg curry...pic looks tempting :)

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  3. Egg curry!!!!my mom makes a similar curry and it's great with phulkas(but I think she also adds some garam masala to it)

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  4. Seeing too many egg posts today and it is really very tempting. Nice curry Smitha. Yum with chapathis.

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  5. Looks rich and delicious Smitha..I love egg curry :)
    Hey why dont you send it to Event for Eggs hosted by Sudeshna. This is the link:
    http://bengalicuisine.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/announcing-event-for-eggs/

    Do send it fast before 12 PM IST!!

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  6. I love it, egg curries are my kids fave dish. They eat with no fuss even it's spicy! :)

    Looks yum.

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  7. Wonderful curry, its our favorite at home...tastes awesome with rotis n rice..

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  8. Nice Curry, Egg in tomato the pic is tempting it did make me hungry...

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  9. nice pic ..tempting with your jumbo egg curry :)

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  10. You won't believe......I too made egg curry for dinner last nite :))) your pic looks so tempting.....

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  11. ohhh gosh so many egg posts today........all r just fantastic!!! Ek se badhkar ek!!!!

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  12. Egg curry is a easy rescue recipe for me...this one must have tasted great!! I will try this recipe asap, thanx.

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  13. Thanks for visiting my blog Smitha...Egg curry is looking yummy....

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  14. I love boiled eggs!! So anything made using it goes down easily for me :) Yummy looking curry!!

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  15. its lookin delicious....thank u 4 sharing...

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  16. guess wat...i tried ur egg curry and it came out fab..anil loved it..thnks smittens :)

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