Egg Korma

Egg korma is a famous Indian food recipe that is prepared with boiled eggs, coconut and selected spices. This egg kurma makes good combo with steamed rice, chapati or paratha. 

Egg Korma

Ingredients: Serve - 2 

• Boiled eggs – 4
• Onion – 3 (medium size)
• Tomato – 2 (medium size)
• Ginger-Garlic paste – 1/2tspn
• Cloves – 2
• Cinnamon – 1 small inch
• Cumin seeds - 1/4tspn
• Fennel seeds – 1/4tspn
• Coconut – 4 small pieces
• Green chili - 2
• Oil -  4tspn
• Mustard seeds – 1/2tspn
• Urad dhal – 1/4tspn
• Curry leaves – as required
• Coriander leaves – as required
• Salt – 2tspn (adjust to taste)
• Red chili powder – 1 & 1/2tspn (adjust to taste)
• Turmeric powder – a pinch
• Coriander powder – 1/2tspn
• Water – 1 glass

The following picture shows the step by step process for Egg Korma:

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Method:

1. In a mixer, add coconut, fennel seeds and grind softly. (figure 1)
2. Take a pan, heat oil in medium flame, add mustard seeds wait for crackle and then add urad dhal, cloves, cinnamon,cumin seeds saute for 5 seconds.(figure 2)
3. Add onions, salt, ginger- garlic paste saute continuously until onions become soft. Then add tomatoes and saute until tomatoes become soft.(figure 3 & 4)
4. Add Red chili powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and saute for 3 more minutes.(figure 5)
5. Add water, close with lid and cook for 5 minutes. (figure 6 & 7)
6. Mean while, take boiled eggs remove the skin and put 3 scratch's with knife or egg shell.(figure 8)
7. Now open the lid, cook for few more minutes to get gravy little thick and then add boiled eggs cook for 5 more minutes.(figure 9 & 10)
8. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve in bowl. (figure 11 & 12)

Egg korma is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• Saute onions and tomatoes well.
• Instead of onion and tomato pieces, we can add onion & tomato puree which will give another favor to our recipe.