Chettinad Egg curry
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Tags: chettinad, curry, Egg, kulambu
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Ingredients:
- Boiled eggs-3
- Small Onion (Shallots)- 15 to 20
- Tomato- 1
- Chili powder- 1/4 tsp
- Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
- Oil and Slat- as required
To paste:
- Coriander seeds- 2 spoon
- Red Chili- 2
- Garlic- 2 cloves
- Ginger- 1/2 inch
- Curry leaves- few
- Rice- 1/2 tsp
- Pepper corns- 1/2 tsp
- Fennel seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Cumin seeds- 1/4 tsp
- Grated coconut- 4 spoon
Recipe:
- Peel Small onion and fry with little Oil. Fry till it turns into light brown in color.Crush the fried onion with a knife. Hard boil the eggs in water.
- Chop the tomato and keep this aside. Remove the shell of boiled eggs and cut it lengthwise.
- In medium flame, heat 2 teaspns of Oil in a pan . Add all the ‘To paste’ ingredients except grated Coconut. Fry till the rice becomes pure White in color.
- Finally add grated Coconut and fry for a min.
- Grind all fried ingredients with Water and make a fine paste.
- Heat Oil in a pan. Add the crushed Onion and fry for a min. Then add Tomato and saute till it turns soft.
- Then add Chili powder, Turmeric powder, ground paste,Salt and a cup of Water. Cook for 7 to 10 min in medium flame.
- Finally add the bolied eggs and cook for a min.
Goes well with: Rice and chapathi
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(44 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5)

on September 17th, 2008 at 5:29 am
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on September 21st, 2008 at 9:06 pm
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on December 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
hey i tried it for the first time & it has taste really good…
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on July 2nd, 2009 at 7:40 pm
hi
on October 9th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Hi..
Looks delicious. I’m going to try.
on January 29th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
hai, me is going to try this for the first time. I’m going to make this with velleppam.
on March 27th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
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on May 25th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
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on October 24th, 2010 at 7:16 am
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on December 8th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Hi frds,
I tried this it has come out superd. thank u so much
on January 21st, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Very nice , But I need more menus in vegetarian , especially in Paruppu items
on February 15th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Did I read 15-20 onions correctly?
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on May 17th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
nice…. i tried………….
on June 23rd, 2011 at 11:51 am
thank you
curry awesome
on November 23rd, 2011 at 11:42 pm
I did not understand the following line in egg curry recipe….”Crush the fried onion with a knife”…How do we crush it. should we make pieces of onion after crushing??? Please explain.
on December 17th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Saras,
Crushing means pressing the onion with a long knife or using a small mortar.
on February 22nd, 2012 at 9:21 am
I tried it for the first time, exactly with the same measurement. My husband loved it and had for breakfast, lunch. Asked to prepare for dinner aswell
THANK YOU