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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Muttai Thokku/Egg Masala.


Ingredients
Boiled Eggs-4 (de-shelled and halved)
Onion Big chopped-1
Tomato big chopped-1
Green chilly slit-2
Ginger and Garlic paste-1/2tsp
Kashmiri chilly powder-2tsp
Turmeric powder-pinch
Curry powder-1tsp
Salt to taste
Cloves, Cinnamon and Cardamom-few
Coriander leaves to garnish

Method
Heat oil in a kadai, add cloves, cinnamon and cardamom. When aroma rises add the onions and green chilly. Saute for few mins and add the ginger and garlic paste, saute and add the tomatoes, cook till tomatoes are smashed. Now add the curry powder, kashmiri chilly powder, turmeric powder and salt. Add little water to the mixture and bring the gravy to boil. When gravy boils add the halved eggs and simmer for 5 mins. Serve hot with Chapati/ Rice.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

Eye catching and mouth watering...

Pavithra Elangovan said...

Wow anything with egg i love it.. this is truely tempting dish.. yummy color and drooling here.

Unknown said...

Colourful and lovely egg thokku...wish u have it with appam...

Priya Suresh said...

Eye catching egg masala, looks great Mytheryi..

Namitha said...

very colorful...I love eggs :-)

Priya dharshini said...

i always luv this egg masala,good recipe..pls check my ongoing event "Diwali 2009" on my blog..
http://priyasfeast.blogspot.com/2009/10/announcing-diwali-2009-event.html

Thank u
Priya

Gita Jaishankar said...

Nice color...looks very tasty dear :)

Sunitha said...

Egg masala used to be almost a daily dish at home while growing up. I still love them and make it pretty much the same but just a lil difference.. Thanks for sharing and Kashmiri chili does make a differnce in the look of the dish.

Sushma Mallya said...

wow what a colour..surely looks spicy & mouthwatering ...

Rohini said...

OMG.. this is not fair dear, you made me drool on my laptop!! ;) Simply superb presentation!
BTW, pls collect your award from my blog dear! it is waiting! :)

Vrinda said...

Oh my... wat a colorful egg masala...

Abhilash said...

hey when I read muttai thokku... i thought it is made from choclates... because we cann choclate in malayalam as muttai... :)

This muttai looks ...mmm.... Delicious.

The red colour... aah! I will love eating it.

Anonymous said...

the colour is damn eye catching..chancey illa

sree said...

Lovely curry...I have lost touch with the blogging world for few weeks and u've loaded u r site with awesome recipies...I got lot to catch up

pria said...

Wow lovely dear,
wat a colour!

Urmi said...

Your egg masala preparation is something different and very nice. I will definitely try this recipe as it will be a change for me. Lovely picture absolutely mouth watering.

Valarmathi Sanjeev said...

I love this, looks colorful and yummy.

Lena Jayadev said...

woww..amazing color mye...love to have it with appam right now....wonderful snap dear..den, i couldn find the tab "comments " for some time..its below the image..so plz reduce the size of image a bit for others to post lovely comments.. :)

Mythreyi Dilip said...

Thank you all for ur lovely comments.

Hi Lena, thanks for notifying me about the comments tab. This has been quite a problem for Firefox users. IE and Google chrome does not creat this problem. Anyway i'm trying my best to solve this problem with Firefox. Hope it gets fixed soon.

Dori said...

Lol, how cute! Yum!

Anonymous said...

Hi Mye,

Very nice thokku recipe...Will try it this week and write back to you....

Anusha