Egg Curry Recipe with step by step pictures. This is a comforting and flavorful dish of boiled eggs cooked in spicy onion tomato gravy.
Egg Curry
I make egg curry often. Believe it or not, even today i made a version of egg curry and served it with ghee rice. I love making it for lunch, because it taste so yummy with hot rice so much. I personally like it so much.
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Ingredients for Egg Curry
- Eggs - 5 Hard Boiled and peeled
- Oil - 1 tblspn + 2 tblspn
- Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf - 2 tsp
- Cinnamon / Pattai - 4 cm piece
- Onion - 2 large chopped roughly
- Tomatoes -2 large chopped roughly
- Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tblspn
- Chilli Powder - 2 tsp
- Coriander Powder / Malli Podi - 2 tblspn
- Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
- Coconut - ½ cup grated
- Salt to taste
- Coriander Leaves a handful finely chopped
Eggs are such a versatile ingredient, you can turn them into a tasty meal within minutes. I have quite a few egg recipes in my blog. You can check them here and here.
How to Make Egg Curry
- Heat 1 tblspn oil in a pan, add in fennel seeds and cinnamon. Let it sizzle for a min.
- Add in onions and salt. Saute till it turns little dark.
- Now add in ginger garlic paste and saute for a min.
- Add in tomatoes and mix well. Cover and cook on a low heat till it gets mushy.
- Add in coconut and saute for 5 mins or so till the mix is done. Cool this down a little.
- Now take the masala in a blender and make it into a fine puree. Add water if needed.
- Heat 2 tblspn oil in the same pan, add the masala in along with all spice powders.
- Cook this till oil separates from the mix.
- Pour in water. Add in eggs and cover and simmer till oil floats on top.
- Add in coriander leaves and mix well.
- Serve with roti or rice.
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Egg Curry | Egg Curry Recipe | Egg Curry with Coconut
Ingredients
- 5 Hard Boiled and peeled Eggs
- 1 tbsp + 2 tbsp Oil
- 2 tsp Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf
- 4 cm piece Cinnamon / Pattai
- 2 large chopped roughly Onion
- 2 large chopped roughly Tomatoes
- 1 tblspn Ginger Garlic Paste
- 2 tsp Chilli Powder
- 2 tblspn Coriander Powder / Malli Podi
- 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- ½ cup grated Coconut
- to taste Salt
- a handful finely chopped Coriander Leaves
Instructions
- Heat 1 tblspn oil in a pan, add in fennel seeds and cinnamon. Let it sizzle for a min.
- Add in onions and salt. Saute till it turns little dark.
- Now add in ginger garlic paste and saute for a min.
- Add in tomatoes and mix well. Cover and cook on a low heat till it gets mushy.
- Add in coconut and saute for 5 mins or so till the mix is done. Cool this down a little.
- Now take the masala in a blender and make it into a fine puree. Add water if needed.
- Heat 2 tblspn oil in the same pan, add the masala in along with all spice powders.
- Cook this till oil separates from the mix.
- Pour in water. Add in eggs and cover and simmer till oil floats on top.
- Add in coriander leaves and mix well.
- Serve with roti or rice.
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kalai vani
Hi sister,
Today I made this curry this came out very tasty.egg kulambu was my first try after marriage but that was a huge flop.for the past one year I have been using readymade egg Kulambu powder but I m not satisfied with its taste.making tasty egg kulambu was my long time wish. Today I achieved it.Thnku so much for this yummy kulambu.
athira
Hi sissy first i would like to thank you. U r one of my problem solver. Ur blog has everything i search for. Ur way of explanation is very understandable even for cooking beginners.may god bless u and Ur family.pls don't stop Ur innovations and don't forget to share it with us
Pavitra
Thanks Arthi for this yummy recipe
kkkkr
Really liked this recipe. Its better than other spicy recipes and very easy to make. Great. Keep it up.
Babe Kaur
Hi ..Arthi ....wanna try this yummy looking recepi if no grated coconut ??? wht else to use ??thank you
Aarthi
@Babe Kauru can skip coconut or add little cashews or khus khus
Sharon Arun
Thank u Arti...I tried your recipe and the dish turned out to be really good 🙂
Ramya Mathiraj
Hey aarthi,tried ur simple egg curry today with jus a small change , instead of onions I used shallots.. and as u said curry was awesome. Hubby liked it a lot. Thanks a lot
Anonymous
Hi Arthy...tried ur egg curry recipe today.it came out really well.My hubby loved it...Thanks for ur recipe
Suriya Sundaram
Hi aarthi
I didn't get the flavour of egg it was just like tomato curry. Wat went wrong ?
Vinayaki Yadav
I tried this recipe last night for dinner. This was the first time I made egg curry .
It was a very simple process , no complicated ingredients and the taste was way too amazing compared to the less ingredients and efforts put in.
Will definitely make it again.
Kirthi Menon
Hi Arthy... Thank you for providing such a lovely recipe.. I tried it and it came out good.. I made a little change to the recipe though... Instead of grated coconut, i put coconut milk and one pinch sugar... Thank you once again
Kirthi Menon
Hi Arthy... Thank you providing a lovely recipe.. I tried it and it came out pretty well... I made a few changes to the recipe though... Instead of grated coconut, i poured coconut milk and put a pinch of sugar in the last ... The flavor was pretty good... Thank you once again.
Aarthi
@Suriya Sundaramadd little bit more garam masala powder
Anonymous
Thanks for the recipe. I tried it and it was very simple and tasty.
Janani G
can u tell if we can do this without coconut
Aarthi
no coconut is must in this
Anonymous
Hi Aarthi, i've tried ur recipe and it waz superb. would like to do this recipe again with 10-12 eggs. Could you please let me know how muc i should increase with regards to masala and other things. Thank you.
Aarthi
JUst double the recipe
Sharika R
Hi Aarthi,
I tried your recipe yesterday and i liked it alot.. thanks for sharing this recipe..Keep updating more recipes..:)
Anonymous
i like ur blog very much. thanks for creating such a good blog for begginers like me. i like all ur receipes very much and tried some of them including ur baby recipes too.
Aparna Rajhesh
I tried this yesterday. It came out so well! Perfect blend of masala. Loved it. Thank you!
Unknown
The recipie certainly looks easy and simple, I'm going to try it now. Thanks for posting it 🙂
Jyoti Banasode
I tried this recipe yesterday.it came out very well.thanks for sharing this easy recipe.