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
These days,since I am not working, I have a full day with me to do whatever I want. It is a great change from working 12-14 hrs a day to complete rest. I am enjoying every bit of it. But there are a few days when I get bored, I wouldn’t want to go out. Then what should I do? Its very very predictable, atleast in my case.I would take up a new recipe (though I get some of the ready made ingredients easily, I would make them all at home).
Few of my friends had repeatedly warned me that I would get bored here, but this is what I do when I get bored.
Yesterday was one of such days when I was getting a bit bored. I tried to read some technical books and I was getting bored of them too. So I thought of preparing this dish for the evening snack. I tell you, this needs some patience, don’t even try it when you are very busy and want to get some good result in a very short time. (Ofcourse I could have used the ready made pastry sheets and made my life easy, but that would not be a great timepass and I would not have felt that I have prepared the dish on my own).
Ingredients: Egg(Boiled) 1 Plain flour(Maida) 3/4 cup Cumin powder 1/4 tea spn Garam masala 1/4 tea spn Vanaspathi or Crisco shortening 1/4 cup Salt
Method: Add salt and ice cold water to flour/maida and make a smooth dough. Roll it into rectangular shape. Apply the shortening/vanaspathi to 2/3rd portion. Fold the remaining 1/3rd portion as shown.
Now fold the remaining 1/3rd portion (to which shortening is applied) on top of it.
Roll it again. Repeat these steps 3-4 times more. (You have to repeat more times to make the puff more crispy).
Now keep the egg on this and sprinkle cumin powder, garam masala, salt on it.
Keep some shortening/vanaspathi on the egg, fold the empty part of the sheet and seal the ends using a little water. Now keep this puff on a greased baking dish.
Bake this in oven for 35-40min on 250 F Or till the puff becomes crispy (Open the oven after every 10min and turn the puffs so that puff gets baked from all sides evenly). Serve with tomato ketchup.
Serves : 2 Preparation time : 1hr
