This healthy, nutritious and spicy egg curry is prepared with hard boiled eggs, onion, tomato & spices and without coconut. People who don't like hard boiled eggs have to try this recipe. Hard boiled eggs retain more vitamin B-12 than scrambled eggs, so go for hard boiled eggs whenever possible.
Ingredients
- Hard Boiled Eggs - 5
- Onion - 1, medium sized, cut lengthwise
- Tomato - 1, large sized
- Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
- Kashmiri Chilli powder - 2 tsp
- Coriander powder - 2 tsp
- Garam masala - 2 tsp
- Egg curry masala - 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Curry leaves - Few
- Salt - To taste
- Oil - 2 tbsp
Method
- Rub the turmeric powder over the boiled eggs so that the skin becomes yellow. It is optional, if you want your eggs to be white you can skip this step.
- Prick the skin of the eggs with a fork on all sides.
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan and shallow fry the eggs in low-medium heat till they turn golden brown. Keep aside.
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds start to splutter, add cumin seeds and curry leaves. Fry for few seconds.
- Add onion & little salt and saute till it turns golden brown.
- Add ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes.
- Add finely chopped tomatoes and cook till it gets mashed.
- Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, garam masala, coriander powder, egg curry masala & salt and mix well. Cook till the oil comes out of the mixture.
- Now add the fried eggs and mix well. Add water and cook covered for 5 minutes.
- Serve hot with Chapathi, rice or as a side dish for biryani.
