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Bengali Egg Curry Recipe

Bengali Egg Curry Recipe

By Admin
Prep Time Total in 65 M
Course Lunch
Cuisine Bengali Recipes
Diet Eggetarian

Bengali Egg Curry is a delicious preparation of eggs and potato which are cooked in a gravy made up of onion, tomato and ginger garlic paste. This dish can be served for parties or packed in lunch box along with rice and salad.

Ingredients

  • 4 Whole Eggs
  • 1 Potato (Aloo)
  • For marinating
  • 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)
  • 2 teaspoon Red Chilli powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  • For the curry
  • 2 Onion
  • chopped
  • 1 teaspoon Ginger Garlic Paste
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)
  • 5 Whole Black Peppercorns
  • 1 Tomato
  • chopped
  • 1 Bay leaf (tej patta)
  • 2 Cardamom (Elaichi) Pods/Seeds
  • crushed
  • 1/2 Onion
  • sliced
  • 2 Green Chillies
  • slit
  • 1 teaspoon Cumin powder (Jeera)
  • 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder (Dhania)
  • 2 teaspoon Panch Phoran Masala
  • 1 teaspoon Red Chilli powder
  • 1 cup Water
  • 4 tablespoon Oil
  • Salt
  • to taste
  • For garnish
  • 3 sprig Coriander (Dhania) Leaves
  • finely chopped

Instructions

Step 1

To begin making the Bengali Egg Curry recipe, boil the eggs and potato separately

Step 2

De-shell the eggs

Step 3

Slightly slit the eggs and apply 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder and 1 teaspoon red chilli powder and salt

Step 4

Keep aside

Step 5

Peel the potato and chop into cubes

Step 6

Apply 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder and 1 teaspoon red chilli powder and salt and keep aside

Step 7

Add chopped onion, cumin seeds, black pepper and ginger-garlic paste and grind together to make a puree in a mixer grinder

Step 8

You can add 1/4 cup water while making puree

Step 9

Keep aside

Step 10

Make a puree of chopped tomato and keep aside

Step 11

Now let us fry the eggs and potato

Step 12

So heat a skillet and add 4 tablespoon oil

Step 13

Fry the eggs till they turn golden brown in colour

Step 14

After the eggs fry, remove and keep aside

Step 15

To the same skillet add potatoes and fry for some time

Step 16

Remove and keep aside

Step 17

Now to the same skillet, add more oil if needed

Step 18

Add bayleaf and crushed elaichi pods

Step 19

Then add the onion puree and mix well

Step 20

Let it fry for 5 minutes

Step 21

Add tomato puree and mix well

Step 22

Add slit green chillies and mix

Step 23

Add the spice powders like cumin powder, coriander powder, red chili powder and panch phoron and mix well

Step 24

Let it simmer for 10 minutes

Step 25

Add water 1/4 cup at a time and let the gravy simmer for atleast 10 more minutes

Step 26

Add potatoes and salt to taste and mix well

Step 27

Finally add the eggs

Step 28

Simmer the gravy for 8 minutes

Step 29

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot

Step 30

Serve Bengali Egg Curry for a delicious weekday meal along with Jeera Rice and Pudina Pyaz Kachumber Salad

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