I studied my Engineering from Belgaum, Karnataka. Most of the people I know (both friends and relatives) have also done their BE from the same place. It is the place where I had the chaats for the first time(except Pani Puri. My mother and grand mother are experts in pani puri and I grew up eating it). You name any chaat and Belgaum had the best of it. One thing I missed eating there was the famous omlet available at the railway station. I don’t know why it was so famous ;). All the guys knew about it. They had this omlet at 12 in the night while returning home from their studies (or taking a night walk to overcome their sleep!!!). Though I never went out and had egg chaats/omlets in roadside stalls, my brother, hubby and some of my friends very well knew about this famous egg chaat. Since I never tasted it before, I had to completely rely on my hubby’s description for this recipe. Now I can say I am a big fan of this chaat.
Ingredients: Eggs (boiled) 2 Onion 1 Tomato 1 Lemon juice 1 tbl spn Chaat masala 1/2 tea spn Chilli powder 1/2 tea spn Coriander leaves 3-4 strands Salt
Method: Finely chop onion, tomato and coriander leaves. Add chilli powder, salt, chaat masala, lemon juice and mix well. Cut the eggs into halves. Keep the mixture on the egg and serve.
Serves : 2 Preparation time : 15min (including the time to boil eggs).
So I am back to my this weeks theme. Egg recipes.. When I was in Belgaum, my pachi(mom’s sister,I think I never mentioned it here, but she is the person from whom I had learnt all my easy-to-do cooking initially, because those were the things I could have prepared in my hostel room without using mixer) always prepared a “cauliflower gravy”. It had a very peculiar taste. I just loved that gravy. When I started cooking, I asked her for this recipe, but she was confused, because she did not know what I am referring to. She had so many different gravies and I was unable to give her any description. I just knew it had cauliflower in it. So I always kept my eyes and ears open for getting this recipe.
Recently, when I was trying different things with egg, I came across this recipe. I prepared it and it had the same taste of my favourite ‘cauliflower gravy’. I just loved it. The scrambled egg increases the taste of the gravy to a great extent.
Ingredients: Eggs 4 Onions 2 Tomatoes 2 Coconut 1/2 cup Ginger 1″ piece Garlic 3-4 flakes Green chilles 4 Coriander leaves 6-7 strands Coriander seeds 1/2 tea spn Oil Salt
Method: Heat oil in a pan and break eggs into it. Add a bit of salt and scramble the eggs. Keep aside. Grind together 1 onion, 1 tomato, coconut, coriander seeds, coriander leaves, green chillies, ginger, garlic to a smooth paste. Heat oil and fry onions. When they turn brownish in color, add the chopped tomatoes. Cook for 5 mins. Add the ground masala and salt. Cook till the gravy is almost done. Now add the scrambled eggs, mix well and cook for 5 mins. Serve hot with rice or chapathi.
Serves : 3 Preparation time : 20min
