Egg is good for health, its easily available, with less ingredients we can prepare a tasty gravy.
Ingredients
For preparing masala paste
- Oil – 5 tablespoon
- Cumin – 1/4 tablespoon
- Pepper – 1 tablespoon
- Curry leaves – few
- Green Chilli – 3
- Onion – 3
For preparing Gravy
- Oil – 2 tablespoon
- Mustard seed – 1/4 tablespoon
- Cumin – 1/4 tablespoon
- Red Chilli – 3
- Curry leaves – few
- Chilli powder – 2 pinch
- Turmeric powder – 2 pinch
- Coriander powder – 2 pinch
- Salt – 1/4 tablespoon
- Egg – 6
- Oil – 3 tablespoon
- Ginger garlic paste – 1/2 tablespoon
- Coriander leaves – few
- Salt – 1/4 tablespoon
- Turmeric powder – 1/4 tablespoon
- Coriander leaves – few
Things to be done before we start cooking
- Peel the skin of 3 medium sized onions, chop them to smaller pieces. Keep them aside in a bowl.
- Boil 6 eggs and then remove the shell and keep it in a bowl.
- Peel skin of ginger and garlic (each 100 grams) – grind them together to obtain the required ‘ginger garlic’ paste.
Steps to Prepare
1 Place a pan on the burner, pour in 5 tablespoons of groundnut oil. Let the oil get a little hot.
- Cumin – 1/4 tablespoon
- Pepper – 1 tablespoon
- Curry leaves – few (from 3 or 4 sprigs)
- Green Chilli – 3 (break them into two)
- Onion – 3 (chopped)
Stir till onions turn light brown in colour. Turn off the flame and let contents in pan cool down a little.
2 Once the onions and things in pan cool down, transfer them to a mixy jar and grind them to a fine paste. Keep the jar aside as of now.
3 Place a pan again on the burner, turn on the flame to HIGH mode, put the below to the pan –
- Oil – 2 tablespoon
- Mustard seed – 1/4 tablespoon
- Cumin – 1/4 tablespoon
- Red Chilli – 3 (break them into 2 and add)
- Curry leaves – few
Stir a little (say for 15 seconds) and then add the below –
- Chilli powder – 2 pinch
- Turmeric powder – 2 pinch
- Coriander powder – 2 pinch
- salt – 1/4 tablespoon
Stir for 10 seconds again.
4
- Now, time to add the boiled eggs. Put small cuts on the egg’s side so that it absorbs masala.
- Stir in low flame for 3 minutes seconds so that egg absorbs the masala and salt.
- After 3 minutes of sautéing in low flame, transfer the eggs to a bowl.
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- In the same pan, pour ground nut oil – 3 tablespoon. Let the oil get hot.
- Once oil is hot, add ginger garlic paste – 1/2 tablespoon. Stir for 10 seconds.
- Coriander leaves – few, add and stir for 5 seconds.
6 Now, put the masala available in mixy jar (prepared in steps 1 and 2) into pan.
Then add
- salt – 1/4 tablespoon.
- Turmeric powder – 1/4 tablespoon
- Coriander powder – 1/2 tablespoon
- Red chilli powder – 1/4 tablespoon
Stir well and let the contents boil a little for 5 minutes.
7 Now, put in the boiled egg into the pan with masala.
Close the pan with lid, in low flame let the contents boil for 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes, turn off the flame, remove the lid, garnish with a little of coriander leaves.
Our tasty egg gravy is ready to be tasted with roti, dosa or rice.