"Egg Curry Recipe":
Most traditional forms of preparations recommend grinding a "masala" paste, but this one is an unconventional one discovered during the lockdown period when my mixer-grinder was non-functional,and I had to resort to the use of ready spice powders. You wouldn't miss having ground paste with this egg curry recipe; you could take my word for it. Besides, the spice powders go a long way into giving the egg curry a spicy Indian twist while the creamy coconut milk mellows it down. The use of coconut milk in this anda curry recipe raises it to a higher level of taste. In India, they call it a narayal anda curry.
Ingredients
- 7-8 boiled eggs (see note below on how to boil eggs)
- 1½ tsp red chilli powder
- 2 small onions (finely chopped)
- 2 light green chillies (finely chopped)
- 1 tbsp ginger paste
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp garam masala powder
- ½ soup cube (Maggi is the brand of my choice)
- 3 cups coconut milk (canned, or diluted coconut powder)
- ½ lime juice (a large lime)
- 3 tbsp green coriander (finely chopped)
- 3 tbsp refined oil
- Salt (as per taste, factoring in the Maggi cube)
Instructions
- Boil the eggs for exactly ten minutes, using a timer if necessary. After a few minutes, peel the eggs and setaside. Check the note below for the egg boiling technique.
- Heat oil in a sufficiently deep pan, add the chilli and turmeric powders. Stir around the spice powders on medium-lowheat. In short, take care not to burn the powders.
- Add the whole boiled eggs, frying them in the spice powders till their white-washed cheeks get a roasted look.
- In about a minute or two, add the chopped onions and stir in till a hint of a change of colour. Add the chopped chillies and ginger paste and stir a bit.
- Follow this by coconut milk (use thick canned milk the first time round, or coconut powder diluted in warm water if you don't have any canned milk).
- Sprinkle in some garam masala and bring it to a boil.
- Add the soup cube and salt as far as your taste buds permit. Then squeeze in the lime juice.
- Turn off the heat; then garnish with chopped green coriander.
Notes
How to boil eggs for "anda curry":Allow the water to come to a boil first, then gently spoon in the eggs without letting the shell hit bottom. Wait until 10 minutes before turning off the stove, draining the hot water and pouring cold water over the boiled eggs. Voila!