Welcome to my Cooking Blog

I love experimenting..with food..personal looks...home decoration n all..and fortunately they work most of the time..I used to make only cakes in microwave when I was small...by reading recipes in magazines (net was not available at that time)..rest of cooking was always my mom's domain..but as the pressure of studies grew..I left cooking completely for some 6-8 years.I still remember..my roomie in Belleville,Canada taught me how to make simple Daal :).I had forgotton all...along with the confidence...
But after wedding..now I have my own kitchen...a very demanding husband when it comes to variety of food and keeping taste buds happy..a lovable brother-in-law who loves good food though doesn't demand much (probably shy!! )and being a responsible lady of the house..I am very cautious about nutrient value of food and hygiene along with calorie content (I am quite plumpy already :) ).
So,this blog is just a record of my experiments with the recipes I read on other food blogs or the standard recipes learnt from mom n friends...
As these all are experiments,so definite quantity of ingredients is not specified.Most are approximations as per my taste :).

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Spicy Egg Curry

Well..Did not know what to name it..So just left it like that..
The story behind..yesterday I was talking to one of my friend who tasted as well as appreciated my first hand recipes in BVL,Canada.She is herself a wonderful cook and I am asking her to document her recipes too for us to try.She makes mostly south indian dishes so i feel thts the reason she appreciated everything i cooked coz it was more of north indian. But the sweet thing is..she reminded me of all my recipes we tried in BVL and I got enthu to experiment with those standard recipes (I used to cook in BVL with my mom's telephonic instructions,so they were all tried and tested..just the cook was new ;)).
She used to love Egg Curry-so thats the first cooking I did..after talking to her..Well,.tough test..my brother-in law also likes egg dishes..and he has not eaten any kind of egg dish prepared by me till now...so this wud decide if I am going to cook any new egg dishes in this kitchen :).And  the verdict is ..he liked it..yipee!!

Ingredients:
1.Three Hard boiled eggs - Poke them with fork so that gravy goes inside,or can cut in half and put.
2. Besan(corn flour) -1 spoon
3. Tamarind - we need one bowl of tamarind water..little thick one..
4. All my basic ingredients -onion,tomato,dry red chillies,all dry masalas
5. 1/2 bowl of milk
6. Refined oil
7.Pudina Powder -(I make myself at home with dry pudina leaves)
8.Anardana powder
Procedure:
1.Heat dry red chillies,Jeera,dhaniya -add onions (puree form) to it and fry till transparent.
2.Add tomatoes (in puree form) and add dry masalas and cook it.
3.Once cooked,add tamarind water to it.
4. Add corn floor to milk and beat it to avoid any lumps.
5.Put the milk with cornfloor in the dish.
6.Cook for sometime so that raw smell of cornfloor goes off.If gravy is too thick,either add milk or water.
7.Then i added pudina powder  and anardana powder.

The dish is ready :)

2 comments:

  1. Looks great...but my Mom's Egg curry used to look red in color...I guess its because of the greater % of tomatoes...

    By the way, Surabhiji...ande ko cheel ke curry me dalna hai ki aisi hi...aapne woh step tho bataya hi nahi....

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  2. Oh Ya..thts such an important information...for cooks like you :).
    Well..cheel ke curry main dalna hai.

    Well my curry looks yellow coz of besan..otherwise the curries i prepare r usually orange..due to garam masala i add..
    n red wud b probably coz of tomatoes only :)

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