Egg Bhejo is a delicious egg appetizer filled with tangy and spicy filling like fried onions, fried garlic, peanut powder & roasted chilli flakes. Egg Bhejo is very popular in Burmese fast food shops and usually served on its own or with Atho. Learn how to make the Authentic Egg Bhejo with step by step pictures and video.
Egg Bhejo
Hard boiled eggs never tasted so good. This Burmese style egg bhejo has many delicious stuffings in them which makes it taste so good. One bite of a perfect stuffed egg bhejo, you will love it.
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About Egg Bhejo
This is a popular Burmese dish made with eggs. Burmese egg bhejo taste so good when served as an appetizer. Traditionally egg bhejo is served with atho or khow suey.
Atho is a spicy tangy noodles dish made by tossing noodles with all different type of ingredients like fried onions, garlic, pepper powder, tamarind juice, lemon juice and oil. It is usually served with Egg Bhejo which also has the same ingredients used in atho.
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Egg Bhejo Ingredients
Eggs - hard boiled eggs are used in this recipe. I like to boil my eggs for 10 minutes to achieve perfect hard boiled eggs.
Onions & Garlic - sliced onions and chopped garlic is the main ingredients. Onions and garlic is fried in oil till crispy and added in the noodles. This adds a sweet taste to the dish.
Flavoured oil - Fry onions and garlic in flavourless refined oil. Once onions and garlic is fried, strain the oil and use in atho. The onion-garlic flavoured oil makes it super delicious.
Chilli Flakes - Dry red chillies is roasted in a dry pan till golden. Cool it completely and crush them fine.
Peanut Powder - roasted chana dal and peanuts is sauted in a dry pan till toasted. Powder them in a blender and use in atho.
Flavourings - as for the flavourings you need to use tamarind water, salt water, lemon juice & coriander leaves.
How to Make Egg Bhejo
Toppings for Egg Bhejo
Heat oil in a pan, add in onions and fry till golden. Strain and set aside. Now add in garlic in the same oil and fry till crispy. Strain and set aside. Reserve the fried onions and garlic oil. Dry roast dry red chillies for few minutes. Cool them down and crush them coarsely. Dry roast peanuts and gram dal and crush them coarsely. Set aside.
Stuff the Eggs
Now take hard boiled egg, slit it open lightly. Fill with fried onions, garlic, tamarind juice, lemon juice, salt water and the fried garlic oil. Add in red chilli powder, roasted gram dal and peanut powder. Add in coriander leaves and serve.
How to Make Egg Bhejo (Stepwise Pictures)
Fried Onions & Garlic
1)Heat 1 cup of flavourless oil like refined oil in a kadai. Add in sliced onions and fry till golden brown. Strain using a slotted spoon and place the fried onions onto some paper towel.
In the same oil, add in chopped garlic and fry till crispy. Once garlic is fried, Strain using a slotted spoon and place the fried garlic onto some paper towel.
Once the onions and garlic are fried. Reserve the oil. You will use the oil to drizzle in egg bhejo.
Peanut powder
3)take peanuts, fried gram dal (pori kadalai, pottu kadalai) in a dry pan and roast till golden brown. Remove this to a plate and allow it to cool completely.
Take them in a blender and make them into a coarse powder. Set this aside till use.
Roasted Chilli Flakes
4)For spice we will be using red chilli flakes. For that dry roast red chillies in a pan till toasted. Cool and grind them to get coarse crushed chillies.
Stuffing Egg Bhejo
5)Take your hard boiled egg, slit them slightly so it opens up.
6)Stuff them with fried onions, fried garlic, crushed peanut powder.
7)Drizzle them with some salt water, tamarind water, fried onion garlic oil, red chilli flakes.
8)Top them with coriander leaves.
9)Egg bhejo is ready to serve.
Expert Tips
- Use hard boiled large sized eggs in this recipe.
- Don't cut the eggs completely, just slit them and use.
- Fill them with all the ingredients just before serving.
- This egg bhejo can be served as appetizers for any parties.
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Burmese Egg Bhejo Recipe
Equipment
- Sauce pan for boiling eggs
- Cooking pot
Ingredients
- 5 Large Hard Boiled Eggs
For Fried Onion Garlic
- 2 Medium Onions sliced
- 10 pods Garlic chopped
- 1 cup Oil
For Peanut powder
- 3 tbsp Peanuts
- 3 tbsp Roasted Gram Dal
For Roasted Red Chilli Flakes
- 5 no Dry Red Chillies
For Egg Bhejo Topping
- 2 tbsp Tamarind Juice
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
- 2 tsp Salt water
- 5 tsp Fried Onion Garlic Oil
- Coriander leaves
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan, add in onions and fry till golden. Strain and set aside. Now add in garlic and fry till crispy. Strain and set aside. Reserve the fried onions and garlic oil.
- Dry roast dry red chillies for few minutes. Cool them down and crush them coarsely. Dry roast peanuts and gram dal and crush them coarsely. Set aside.
- Now take the egg, slit it open lightly. Fill with fried onions, garlic, tamarind juice, lemon juice, salt water and the fried garlic oil. Top with red chilli powder, roasted gram dal and peanut powder. Add in coriander leaves and serve.
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Notes
- Use hard boiled large sized eggs in this recipe.
- Don't cut the eggs completely, just slit them and use.
- Fill them with all the ingredients just before serving.
- This egg bhejo can be served as appetizers for any parties.
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Ravula Naresh
Wow, that's easy to make a recipe, that too with egg.
Nice I would love to try this recipe, its a pack of protein and Indian species!