In this recipe make a Dhaba hotel style Egg curry with lots of secret tips of how to boil egg Anda with perfection.
Ingredients:-
- 6 Eggs / Anda
- 4 medium Potatoes / Aloo
- 3 tbsp Mustard Oil / Sarson tel
- 3 Bayleaves / Tej patta
- 2 Black cardamom / Badi elaechi
- 4 Cloves / Loung
- 1 inch Cinnamon / Dalchini
- 1 tsp Cumin / Zeera
- 8 Garlic cloves / Lasan ki kaliya
- 1 inch Ginger / Adrakh
- 2 big Onion / Pyaz
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric / Haldi
- 1+1/2 -2 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder / Kashmiri Lal mirch
- 1 cup Tomato purée / Tamatar puree
- 1/4 tsp green Cardamom / Hari elachi
- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon powder / Dalchini
- Salt to taste / Namak swad anusar
- 3-4 cup Water / Pani
- 1 tsp Dry Fenugreek / Kasturi methi
- 1 tsp Fennel seed powder / Saunf powder
- 1/2 tsp Coriander powder / Dhaniya
- 1/2 tsp Garam masala
- Some green dry or fresh Coriander / Dhaniya
Method:-
- Boil eggs till hard.
- Remove skin and pierce them through 2-3 times.
- Peel and cut Potatoes in big chunks.
- Pierce Potato pieces and make small cuts.
- Heat Oil and then fry Potato pieces till golden brown.Similarly fry the Eggs too.
- Now in remaining hot Oil keeping heat low add whole spices Bayleaves,Black Cardamom,Cinnamon stick,Cloves and Cumin seeds.Let spices crackle over low for 30-40 seconds.
- Then add Ginger-Garlic paste.Saute for 20-30 seconds adding upon finely chopped Onions.
- Sauté Onions over medium high stirring occasionally till golden .
- Again putting heat low add spices -Turmeric and Chilli powder,Roast added spices over low 30-40 seconds.
- Add Tomato purée again stirring occasionally cook Tomatoes on low-medium till dry adding green cardamom powder,Cinnamon powder and Salt.
- After this add Water,fried Potato & Eggs,Fennel powder,Dry Fenugreek and Coriander powder.
- Gravy comes to boil, put heat low-medium; cover and let cook for 10-15 minutes till Potatoes get soft.
- Open lid ,put heat low , sprinkle Garam masala giving a light mix.
- Putting the lid on give Egg curry a standing time of about 5 minutes ,switch off the stove.
- Before serving sprinkle some fresh or dry Coriander leaves.
Tips :-
- Keep heat on low and after Water gets hot you can boil eggs on high.This ensures that eggs don’t break due to temperature shock.
- Piercing helps in better absorbing of Oil and spices.