Chettinad Egg curry

Posted on May 13th, 2008 in Egg by mavuma
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Chettinad egg curry, Muttai kuzhambu

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:

  1. 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.
  2. Chop the tomato and keep this aside. Remove the shell of boiled eggs and cut it lengthwise.
  3. 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.
  4. Finally add grated Coconut and fry for a min.
  5. Grind all fried ingredients with Water and make a fine paste.
  6. Heat Oil in a pan. Add the crushed Onion and fry for a min. Then add Tomato and saute till it turns soft.
  7. Then add Chili powder, Turmeric powder, ground paste,Salt and a cup of Water. Cook for 7 to 10 min in medium flame.
  8. Finally add the bolied eggs and cook for a min.

Goes well with: Rice and chapathi

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    1. Hetzy said,

      on September 17th, 2008 at 5:29 am

      Hi..
      Samai.in is very useful and favourite website to me.All your recipies are very tasty.I tried parota, chettinatu chicken curry,egg curry and poondu kulambu.Came out well. My husband likes those. I referred to some of my friends.They too like. Thankyou very much .

    2. uvmahe said,

      on September 21st, 2008 at 9:06 pm

      Nice to know samai.in is your favorite site. Try other recipes too and give feedback.

    3. Irfana Shafiq said,

      on December 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm

      hey i tried it for the first time & it has taste really good…

      Keep up with the good work

    4. velmurugan said,

      on July 2nd, 2009 at 7:40 pm

      hi

    5. Mala said,

      on October 9th, 2009 at 2:09 pm

      Hi..
      Looks delicious. I’m going to try.

    6. Renu sajith said,

      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.

    7. jessie said,

      on March 27th, 2010 at 5:54 pm

      woww… its lovely to watch i wl tru dis

    8. Indira said,

      on May 25th, 2010 at 12:58 pm

      Hi… i tried the chettinad egg curry… My husband loved it… http://www.samai.in is a beautiful website… i have referred to few of my friends too…. keep posting new dishes…. cheers!!!

    9. surya said,

      on October 24th, 2010 at 7:16 am

      hi lovely site……………
      i tried a few dishes and they did taste pretty good…………more confident about cooking now

    10. nirmala balraj said,

      on December 8th, 2010 at 10:19 am

      Hi frds,
      I tried this it has come out superd. thank u so much

    11. PALANISAMY R said,

      on January 21st, 2011 at 3:40 pm

      Very nice , But I need more menus in vegetarian , especially in Paruppu items

    12. Dave said,

      on February 15th, 2011 at 12:32 pm

      Did I read 15-20 onions correctly?


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    14. prabha said,

      on May 17th, 2011 at 3:50 pm

      nice…. i tried………….

    15. Harshima Budithi said,

      on June 23rd, 2011 at 11:51 am

      thank you
      curry awesome

    16. saras said,

      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.

    17. admin said,

      on December 17th, 2011 at 1:18 pm

      Saras,
      Crushing means pressing the onion with a long knife or using a small mortar.

    18. Saran said,

      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

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