Recipe of Egg Curry - How to Make Egg Curry at Home?

B) Ingredients for Egg Curry Gravy

1) Onion – 2 in number (large-sized – finely chopped)

2) Ginger – Single piece (1 inch in length – finely chopped)

3) Garlic – 8 to 9 cloves (large-sized – chopped)

4) Green Chilli – 2 in number

5) Tomatoes – 2 medium-sized ones (finely chopped)

6) Turmeric powder – 1/4th Teaspoon

7) Coriander powder – ½ Teaspoon

8) Kashmiri red chili powder – 1/4th Teaspoon or according to taste

9) Salt – 1/4th Teaspoon or according to taste

10) Cumin seeds – A small pinch

11) Edible oil – 1 Tablespoon

12) Water – ½ Litre

C) Other Components Needed for Making Egg Curry

1) Butter/Ghee – 2 Tablespoons

2) Garam Masala Powder – 1/4th Teaspoon

3) Sugar – ½ Teaspoon

4) Coriander leaves – 25 gm

5) Kasuri Methi (Dried Fenugreek leaves) – 1/4th Teaspoon

How to Make Egg Curry at Home (North Indian Style)?

Boiling the Eggs for Making Egg Curry

• In a large stockpot, 3 glasses of water are taken and put on a burner. 4 uncooked eggs are gently placed in the water. The eggs should be properly submerged into it. Next, the water is allowed to boil for 10 minutes. The container is not covered by a lid or any other plate. After 10 minutes the flame is put off and the container is kept aside and allowed to cool down. The shells of the eggs are next peeled and the eggs kept aside.

Gravy Preparation in Making Egg Curry

• 1 Tablespoon edible oil is put on a pan and allowed to get warm on a medium flamed oven. The Cumin seeds are put into the oil. When its color starts to change, then the cut onion pieces are added to it and stirred.

• As the onion becomes soft and starts to change its color, then the ginger and garlic pieces are added and the mixture stirred for 2 to 3 minutes.

• Next turmeric powder, coriander powder, salt, sugar are added to the previous mixture, followed by tomato pieces. Frying continues till tomatoes become softened.

• Next water (as mentioned in the ingredients) is added along with red chili powder and the mixture allowed to boil for 5 minutes. The burner is next switched off and the preparation allowed to get cooled.

• The mixture is transferred to a grinder and it is ground till the constituents take the consistency of a smooth liquid mixture. It is kept aside.

Final Steps in Making of Egg Curry

• Now on a medium flamed burner, a pan containing 2 tablespoons butter/ghee is put. When it gets sufficiently warmed up, then whole green chili is put in it and fried. Once it gets fried, the chili is taken out and kept aside.

• Next, the eggs are put in the same pan previously used. A pinch of extra turmeric powder is added. The eggs are fried for 2 to 3 minutes. Then the liquid mixture, which was prepared previously (in the grinder) is added to it and the mixture is allowed to boil for 5 minutes in low flame, with the container being covered by a lid.

• Now garam masala powder & Kasuri Methi (Fenugreek) powder is added to the preparation and the mixture stirred thoroughly. The burner is switched off. 

• As a part of the final steps, the salt content of the preparation is tasted. If it is found to be less then some extra amount can be added as per need and individual preference.

• Chopped coriander leaves are sprinkled over the preparation and the curry is stirred thoroughly so that the components get mixed uniformly. Fried whole green chili prepared previously is put on the surface of preparation (as a decoration/optional use). Egg curry is now ready to be served hot. We hope, all of those who wanted to know as to – how to make egg curry at home, have got a satisfactory answer.

How to Make Egg Curry at Home (Eastern Indian Variety)?

• In the eastern part of India, there is a general tendency to add potatoes to the recipe of egg curry being prepared. Hence here we are describing the recipe for egg curry once again in very brief, stating only the part as to how the potatoes are used in the making of egg curry.

• The only change in egg curry recipe here would be to add 3 more medium-sized potatoes to the list of ingredients.  The potatoes are peeled and then first cut longitudinally & then cut laterally, so that from each potato 4 pieces are obtained.

• These potato pieces are then washed and sprinkled with extra salt & extra turmeric powder. Next, it is fried in butter/ghee mentioned previously. This is done before frying of the eggs previously mentioned in making of egg curry (discussed above under the heading of – final steps of the making of egg curry).

• Once the potatoes pieces become golden brown in color after frying; then eggs are added to it, which gets fried in the remaining butter/ghee.

• The remaining steps are similar to what has been discussed above in the final steps of the making of egg curry, the only difference is the presence of extra potato only.

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Conclusion

Health benefits of eating eggs certainly outweigh the many risks attributed to it, when it comes to healthy individuals without any underlying health problems. Eggs contain a good number of important vitamins (Vitamin A, Folate, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D & E). It is also a good source of proteins and also provides high-quality protein & vital minerals like – calcium, phosphorus, selenium, and zinc.

So, people who want to avail the health benefits of eggs, egg curry is certainly one of the best and most widely available options. The recipe of egg curry discussed above is certainly very easy for all of those, who are thinking about how to make egg curry at home? However, here it would be important to mention that recipe for egg curry may vary from place to place, depending on the background and the inclination of the chef, making egg curry. Hence readers may come across egg curry recipe, which may be a bit different from what has been discussed above. Reader’s discretion is advised.