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Chilli Egg Recipe | How to Make Egg Chilli Recipe (Dry & Gravy)

Chilli Egg Recipe is a popular Indo-Chinese side dish made with boiled eggs, onion, ginger, garlic, capsicum and sauces. The process of making chilli egg is made with batter dipped fried eggs coated in a spicy sweet sauce. You can make chilli egg dry or gravy, both the recipes are shared in this blog post. Learn how to make spicy chilli egg dry or egg chilli gravy recipe with step by step pictures and video. Make sure you serve chilli egg with any Indo Chinese main course like fried rice or noodles.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Chinese, Indo Chinese
Servings 4 servings
Calories 91 kcal

Equipment

  • Cooking pot
  • Mixing Bowl
  • Deep Fry Pot

Ingredients
  

For Chilli Egg Sauce

  • 4 no Eggs Boiled, Peeled & Halved
  • 1 teaspoon Oil
  • 1 tablespoon Garlic chopped finely
  • 1 tablespoon Ginger chopped finely
  • 1 no Onion chopped finely
  • 1 no Capsicum / Bell Pepper chopped finely
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Sugar
  • 2 teaspoon Chilli Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Pepper Powder
  • 3 tablespoon Spring Onions finely chopped

For Chilli Eggs Batter

  • 3 tablespoon All Purpose Flour
  • 3 tablespoon Cornstarch
  • ¼ teaspoon Baking Powder
  • ½ teaspoon Salt to taste
  • ¼ cup as needed Water
  • Oil for Deep Frying

Sauce to Mix Together

For Making Chilli Egg Gravy

  • 1 cup Veg Stock or Water
  • 2 teaspoon Cornstarch
  • 2 tablespoon water

Instructions
 

  • Take batter ingredients in a bowl, add water slowly and make it into a semi thick batter. Dip each egg halve in batter and fry till golden. It should be cripsy. Drain onto some paper towel and set aside.
  • Mix all the sauce ingredients and set aside.
  • Now heat oil in a pan, add in garlic, ginger and fry for a min. Add in onions and saute for 3 mins or so till golden. Add in capsicum and cook for 2 mins. Now add in sauce, chilli powder, pepper powder, salt, sugar and cook till it is thick and glossy.
  • Toss in fried egg and toss well. Add spring onion and mix well. Serve hot.

For Making Chilli Egg Gravy

  • Once sauce is ready, pour in 1 cup water or stock. Bring it to a full boil.
  • Mix cornstarch with 2 tablespoon water to form slurry. Pour this into the sauce to thicken it. Add in fried eggs, spring onions and mix. Serve hot.

Video

Notes

  • Cornstarch has to be used in the batter to create crispy texture.
  • You can skip baking powder in the batter if you want the chilli egg to be super crispy.
  • You can taste and adjust the sauces added in the dish.
  • Chilli Egg can be served as an appetiser or as a side dish.

Storage & Serving

You can serve chilli eggs with wide variety of main dishes like fried rice, noodles and other Indo-Chinese dishes.

Variety of Fried Rice 

You can serve it with fried rice which is one of the best combo. You can make my veg fried rice, egg fried rice, chicken fried rice, mushroom fried rice, tofu fried rice, schezwan fried rice or paneer fried rice.

Variety of Noodles 

Pick from veg noodles, Chinese noodles, chicken noodles & hakka noodles.

Serve with Soups

Chicken clear soup, Hot & sour soup and Sweet corn soup are my favorites.

Nutrition

Serving: 1servingsCalories: 91kcalCarbohydrates: 18gProtein: 2gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.5gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 4mgSodium: 1606mgPotassium: 104mgFiber: 1gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 614IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 1mg
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