Easy Egg Roast
Easy egg roast recipe is hard-boiled eggs fried and then cook in an onion tomato based masala. This egg roast is also called muttai varuval in Tamil and nadan muttai roast in Kerala. It goes so well with flatbreads like roti, chapati, parota, dosa, appams, string hoppers and as a side to regular rice dal or lentils.
Equipment
- Frying pan
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 3 or 4 Pieces Egg
- 3 Tablespoon Oil
- 2 Medium Onion chopped
- 2 Medium Tomato chopped
- 3 Large Garlic cloves chopped
- 1 Inch Ginger chopped
- 3 Pieces Green chillies chopped
- 1 Sprig Curry leaves
- Few Sprigs Coriander leaves chopped (dhania)
- 2 Teaspoon Red chilli powder or as per your taste
- 1 Teaspoon Coriander powder (dhania powder)
- 1 Teaspoon Garam masala powder
- ½ Teaspoon Cumin powder (jeera powder)
- ½ Teaspoon Black pepper powder (kali mirch powder)
- ½ Teaspoon Turmeric powder (haldi powder)
- 1-2 Teaspoon Salt or as per your taste
- ¼ Cup Water
Instructions
- In a pot add some water and salt and boil 3 to 4 eggs. Once the eggs are hard boiled allow to cool down. Peel the eggs and cut them into halves. Keep aside.
- In a pan heat the oil. Once the oil is heated, simmer the flame and add in the eggs.
- Fry the eggs on both the sides until golden brown. Remove and keep aside.
- In the same oil add in the ginger and garlic. Saute them for a minute.
- Add in the curry leaves, onion and green chillies. Saute until the onions are cooked and soft
- Add in the tomatoes and cook until it turns soft and mushy.
- Add in the salt along with the masala - red chilli powder, garam masala powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, black pepper powder, turmeric powder.
- Mix well and cook for a minute. Now add in about ¼ cup of water and cook the masalas for about 2 minutes or until the water is dried up and the oil separate. ( Cook over low to medium flame).
- Add in the fried eggs in single layers. Take some masalas and cover up the top layer of the eggs. Put on the lid and let it cook about 2 minutes in low flame.
- Flip over the eggs and again cook for about 2 minutes in low flame.
- Flip over again and turn off the flame. Sprinkle the coriander leaves and your easy egg roast is ready to be served. Enjoy!
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Notes
- Here the eggs are cut halves and made. You can keep the eggs whole. Suggest to put some cuts so that the masala penetrates inside.
- We used refined sunflower oil. You can use mustard oil or coconut oil for making the egg roast.
- You can always adjust the chilli and red chilli powder as per your heat preference.
- The masalas can be adjusted as per your taste and availability.