Easy egg curry is a simple and mildly spiced recipe made by adding boiled eggs in an onion, tomato, coconut based spicy curry. This comforting curry tastes delicious and can be served with rice or bread.
Egg curry recipe for rice is a comfort food. Whenever I feel I need something quick to have with rice, I make this comforting egg curry recipe. Everyone at home loves it, specially the kiddo. She keeps asking more servings of it. Egg recipes are very easy to make. Check out the step-by-step egg curry recipe with video recipe of the same.
If you are looking for a boiled egg recipe, then this tomato onion egg curry is one of the most preferred one. It can be made with ingredients which can be easily found in any house.
I had been making many types of egg curries like Bengali egg curry, Egg butter masala, Goan style boiled egg curry made without roasting coconut.
Ingredients to make egg curry recipe with coconut:
- Eggs: I have used hen eggs in this recipe.
- Onion: I have used red onion in this recipe. You can use any type of onion.
- Tomato: Use fresh firm red tomatoes. This makes the curry yummy.
- Coconut: Freshly grated coconut is used in this recipe. Dedicated coconut can also be used. If you don’t have grated coconut, just add ¼ th cup coconut milk.
- Spices: Spices like black peppercorns, coriander seeds, cardamom, cumin seeds have been used. These spices make the curry delicious and gives a mildly spiced taste.
- Garlic and ginger: Garlic and ginger goes hand in hand to make the curry slightly pungent.
- Spice powders: Spice powders like red chili powder, turmeric powder and garam masala are used in this recipe. If you can’t find turmeric powder and garam masala, you can still go ahead and make the curry. If you are wondering where to get these spices, then you can easily spot these in any Indian grocery store.
Let us see the steps to make egg curry for chapati:
- Boil eggs, peel and cut the eggs into 2 halves.
- Heat a kadai/wok, add oil. After oil gets heated, add finely chopped onion and sauté till onion turns pinkish. Add garlic and ginger and sauté till raw aroma of garlic goes away. Add spices namely bay leaf, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and black peppercorns. Roast the spices for 2 minutes.
- Add chopped tomato and sauté till tomato turns mushy.
- Add grated coconut and sauté for 5 minutes. Switch off the gas and let this cool completely.
- Transfer the contents from the kadai into a mixer jar and grind to form a thick gravy by adding 3/4th cup water.
- Heat the kadai/wok again and pour the contents from the mixer into it.
- Add ½ cup water if needed.
- Add garam masala, red chili powder and turmeric powder and stir well.
- Simmer the curry and then add boiled eggs.
- Simmer for 5 more minutes and then switch off the heat.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
How to serve the simple egg curry?
Serve boiled egg curry to have as a side dish with rice or bread or chapatis. This curry can also be packed in the lunch box.
Easy Egg Curry
Equipment
- Mixer grinder
Ingredients
- 4 Eggs
- 1 medium sized onion sliced
- 2 medium sized tomato chopped
- 2 tablespoon coconut grated
- 5 garlic pods sliced
- ¼ inch ginger chopped
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 1 bay leaf
- 5 black peppercorns
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 cardamom pod
- 1 tablespoon garam masala
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 2 tablespoon oil
- To taste salt
Instructions
- Boil eggs peel the shell after cooling. Cut the eggs into 2 halves.
- Heat a kadai/wok, add oil. After oil gets heated, add finely chopped onion and sauté till onion turns pinkish.
- Add garlic and ginger and sauté till raw aroma of garlic goes away.
- Add spices namely bay leaf, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and black peppercorns. Roast the spices for 2 minutes.
- Add chopped tomato and sauté till tomato turns mushy.
- Add grated coconut and sauté for 5 minutes.
- Switch off the gas and let this cool completely.
- Transfer the contents from the kadai into a mixer jar and grind to form a thick gravy by adding 3/4th cup water.
- Heat the kadai/wok again and pour the contents from the mixer into it.
- Add ½ cup water if needed.
- Add garam masala, red chili powder and turmeric powder and stir well.
- Simmer the curry and then add boiled eggs.
- Simmer for 5 more minutes and then switch off the heat.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
- Serve hot.
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