Weekday Cooking - Poori & Egg curry

 

Egg Curry and Poori (Puri)

Egg curry & Puri is a very tasty combination. 

Made this on a buzy Weekday.

If you didnt get time to cook Eggs separately you can also add them with the cooked onions directly. 

Either way its very yummy.

Enjoy your day!!

Egg puffs / South indian snack

 

 EGG - PUFFS 

Crispy Spicy Egg puffs with hot Tea 😋

College time nostalgia.

Things Needed:

Boiled Eggs - 6

Red Onions sliced - 2 cup

Ginger garlic finely chopped - 1 tbsp

Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp 

Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp 

Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp

Fennel seeds, slightly crushed - 1/2 tsp

Tomato ketchup - 2 tbsp

Oil

Salt 

one extra Egg 

Puff pastry sheets

Wheat flour 

Preparation Method:

Heat oil in a nonstick pan. Saute chopped ginger-garlic in it. As the rawness goes add sliced onions to it.

Saut till transparent. Add turmeric powder, chilly powder, garam masala, fennel seeds. Saute for 3 min.

Add tomato ketchup. Cook for further 5 min. 

Onion masala  mix is ready. 

Cut the boiled eggs into halves.

Roll out the puff pastry sheets using a rolling pin . Dust with wheat flour when necessary .

Cut the puff pastry sheets into squares. 

Place one spoon of onion mix in the middle and one egg half . Fold it from 4 sides into middle.

Beat one egg and brush over the folded puffs . This will add a glaze and crispiness to the egg puffs.

When all pieces are done. Bake it in over for 180 degrees till done.

Brat Kartoffeln

Zwiebel 1
Kartoffeln 5 500gm
Eier 2
Pfeffer
Salz

Ziebel zerhacken, Kartoffeln schälen und in 1cm große Stücke schneiden.
10 g Butter in einer Pfanne zergehen lassen und die Zwiebel goldbraun andunsten.
Kartoffel hineingeben und bei solange dunsten bis sie ebenfalls goldbraun sind.
Dann mit Pfeffer und Salz abschmecken. Ein Ei hinzufügen und ca. 3 min weden und auf ein Teller servieren.
Mit einem weiteren Ei ein Spiegelei kochen und auf die Bratkartoffeln dekorieren.

Egg Curry

EGG CURRY MASALA

Things needed :
Eggs - 4 boiled
Ginger Garlic - 2 tbsp , chopped
Onion - 3 big, 350gm , sliced
Tomato - 2 ,200gm, sliced
Green chilly -2 slit

Chilly powder - 3/4 tbsp
Coriander powder - a little bit less than 3/4 tbsp
turmeric -1/4 tsp
Garam masala -1 tsp

Preparation method :
Heat oil in a nonstick pan. Add ginger garlic chopped , fry until rawness goes.
Add onions , green chilly & saute , till transparent .
Add turmeric,chilly powder, Coriander powder , 1 tsp salt and mix well .
Add tomatoes. cook until tomatoes are soft . Add 1/2 cup water , curry leaves and cook to make the gravy.
Before finishing add Garam masala and cook for another 1 min.

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Stuffed Banana Sweet - Nirakka

Nirakka Recipe

STUFFED BANANA SWEET
This sweet is made using paste of cooked Plantains ( Banana) with a filling made with egg , nuts & raisins. I don't know from where mom got the recipe of this sweet..I remember having it from school time..It tastes delicious ..Especially the filling inside is awesome , I used to have it just like that.

Things needed :

2 Ripe Bananas - Tip: It should be just ripe & not fully ripe.
All purpose flour if needed.

For the filling:
5 Cashew nuts
2 Cardamom
2 Eggs
1 sp sugar
10 sultanas
ghee

made 6 of them

Preparation method :
Prepare Batter :
Boil the bananas . Peel & mash them using mixer.

We have to make forms using this banana paste.
So if it is not tight enough we can add some all purpose flour . The flour added should be as less as possible for good taste .

I had to add 5 sp of all purpose flour to get the right batter , like in picture .Keep the batter aside.

Prepare Filling:
Beat well egg , sugar & cardamom crushed & keep aside.
Heat a spoon Ghee in a nonstick pan .
Fry the dry grapes in it till it becomes balloon like. Take it n keep aside .

Add the egg mixture to it & make fine egg scrambles by breaking the thick egg pieces by the back of the spoon.

Next add the crushed nuts & fry till very slight brown. (I added nuts in the last because it will be tougher to remove nuts from pan when its crushed to small.)



The tasty filling is ready . Now we can stuff them inside the banana paste.

Apply oil in both hand(to avoid stickiness of batter) , put 2 spoons of banana paste into it & spread it using other hand .You can use oil if needed.

Put 1 spoon filing in the middle & close the edges of the batter by pressing finger.


Fry in oil.

Its good to add 1 spoon Ghee into the oil to get good flavour.






Drain using tissue paper.
Garnish with the rest of the filling & serve.
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Stuffed Banana - Pazham Nirachathu

Stuffed Banana - Pazham Nirachathu Recipe

STUFFED SWEET BANANA

Things needed :
Bananas 2
All purpose flour - 1/2 cup

For the filling:
5 - Cashew nuts
2 - Cardamom
2 - Eggs
1 sp -sugar
10 -dry grapes
ghee, oil

Preparation method :

For the filling : Beat well egg , sugar & cardamom crushed & keep aside.

Heat a spoon Ghee in a nonstick pan .
Fry the dry grapes in it till it becomes balloon like. Take it n keep aside .

Add the egg mixture to it & make fine egg scrambles by breaking the thick egg pieces using the back of the spoon.

Next add the crushed nuts & fry till very slight brown. (I added nuts in the last because it will be tougher to remove nuts from pan when its crushed to small.) . Mix in fried dry grapes as well to this. Filling is ready.

I have used the same filling for other recipe , you can for some pics of the filling.


Slit the Banana into halves.

Remove the center with black seed with a small
knife , like in the picture.

Fill the filling.

Close the sides with a thick paste of flour.



Add enough Ghee or vegetable oil in a nonstick frying pan.
Fry turning over sides until your desired texture. Some people used to fry it only till smooth. I fried till little bit crispy.

Enjoy this classic snack of kerala with a cup of cardamom tea !
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Banana Pancake

BANANA PANCAKE

Pancake reminds me of the south Indian dosa we used to have back home. But anyway there is changes in the batter . While dosa is made out of rice flour and dal , pancakes are made using plain flour. This is my pancake which is banana flavoured . Try the recipe and leave your comments.

Things needed :

All purpose Flour 1 cup- 200 gm
Baking powder 2 tsp
salt - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 2 levelled spoon
Milk 200ml - 1 glass
Egg - 1
Banana 1big - 150 gm
Vanilla essence - 1 sp
Butter or oil

Makes 7 pancakes.


Preparation method :

Mix the dry ingredients except sugar first in a mixing bowl.
(All purpose Flour ,Baking powder , salt )

Mash well banana in a mixer adding some milk , after its mashed, add rest of the milk,egg , sugar & vanilla essence , in the blender & blend well.

Make a well in the middle of the mixing bowl mixture & pour the blended mixture in it.
Mix well to make the thick batter.



Check the sugar of the batter . If you want more you can add it. But usually pancakes are made with less sugar .



In a nonstick pan pour some butter or oil .


Pour the pancake batter into it , spread to a round shape using backside of spoon & fry both sides.


Pour some honey or Jam or top it with some sliced bananas or strawberry or whatever you like & have it ...it makes a delicious breakfast .


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Wheat or Gothambu Battura

Wheat or Gothambu Battura Recipe

WHOLE WHEAT (GOTHAMBU - ATTA) BATTURA

I got this recipe from one old magazine which my mom send me from India.
You can also make it using all purpose flour or maida , here is the recipe for Maida batttura .

Things needed :
Atta - 2 cup
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Milk -1/2 cup or like needed
Yogurt - 1 sp
Ghee 2 sp
Egg -1

Salt -1/4 tsp
Oil - enough to fry


Mix Atta, Baking powder & salt together in a big bowl .
Add other ingredients ( Egg , Ghee , Yogurt, milk) and mix very well.

Cover the top of the bowl with a wet cotton cloth.
Keep it aside for 2 hrs.



Make small balls out of the dough.
In a wooden board roll out the balls into round shape using a rolling pin .

Fry these in the oil turning both sides .

As you can see in the picture this recipe makes very pretty n soft Batturas ... Its worth a try.

I had it with my tasty spicy Vegetable Kuruma . It also goes well with Egg Curry.



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Egg puffs

EGG PUFFS

Egg puffs are Puff pastry stuffed with Egg halves , fried Onions and spices. There is also another method in which they use only Puff pastry and Egg half. But I am mostly familiar with this one.

It is a very popular snack in Canteens, Bakeries back at Kerala. There is a bakery near my home from where me & my brother used to buy snacks from childhood. We were regular customers in that bakery and the shopkeeper knows us very well.Sometimes we used to get 1 or 2 puffs for free.
Their are also Meat puffs which are also my favourite, but i will try them later..

Things needed :

Boiled Eggs - 6
Onion - 4 big 600 gm
Ginger garlic - 2 full sp chopped
Green chilly - 2 medium chopped

Chilly powder - 1/2 sp
Turmeric - 1/4 sp
Coriander - 1/2 sp
Meat masala - 1/4 sp
Garam masala -1 tsp
OR
Use freshly crushed spices .Refer below it enhances the flavor of the filling .

Garam masala Spices :

1/4 spoon of Fennel seeds ( perum jeerakam)
1 inch Cinnamon stick
10 cloves

Crush them coarsely & keep aside.

Preparation method :

Boil the eggs in a deep vessel.
Tip : Add 1/2 sp of salt in the water. It helps the eggs from cracking the eggs.

Heat oil in a nonstick pan.
Add Ginger - Garlic chopped & saute & fry .






Now add Chilly chopped & Onions sliced , saute till transparent.





Add all the Chilly powder, Turmeric, Coriander powder & saute until it is well coated on the onions.

Add the crushed Garam masala spices & Meat masala in the last min. Saute for 1 min.

Finally add 3 spoons water , because we want the filling to be little bit wet.
Onion filling is done.

Take a puff pastry sheet in a wooden board.Sprinkle enough dough on both sides to avoid it form sticking to the rolling pin. Roll it a little bit using the rolling pin , to make it almost like a square .

Place 2 sp onion filling in the center & spread it.
Place 1/2 of an Egg on it.

Then fold it to make puffs.

Follow the pictures to make a tray of puffs .












Bake them for 20 minutes. Or until it turns Golden brown.

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Maida Battura

BATTURA - Battura Recipe using All purpose flour(plain flour) or maida

Battura-A bread made using flour,egg and milk.
This Battura recipe makes use of all purpose flour to make Battura instead of Gothambu , like in my Gothambu battura recipe.

Things needed :

3 cups All purpose flour (Weizen mehl )
2 eggs
salt
milk 1/4 cup
water according to need
baking soda 1/4 (optional), (I didnt add this)

Preparation Method :

Take flour in a big bowl .
Mix in Egg, milk, salt & baking soda into flour & mix well beating it . Pour water if needed .
Don't add extra water .
It should be enough tough so that we can make balls out of it.

Cover with a wet cloth. (So that the moisture may remain) .
Keep aside for 1 hr.

Now check the dough , it will be very smooth by this time.

Make balls of the dough.

& spread it round using a Rolling pin . Apply flour both sides when necessary to avoid sticking.

Deep fry in a pan, turning both sides.

I served it with an Egg Curry.

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Dry Egg curry

Dry Egg curry Recipe

DRY EGG CURRY

Things needed:

Boiled Eggs 4
5 large onions sliced
2 tomatoes cut into big cubes
spices cardamom 3 ,cloves 6-7 , fennel seeds 1 small tsp
1/2 tsp turmeric,1 tsp chilly powder
salt
oil

Cardamom 3 ,Cloves 6-7 , Fennel seeds 1 small tsp ...All crushed.

Heat oil in a nonstick pan.
Add onions & saute , till it turns brown like in the picture .

Add turmeric,chillypowder & enough salt, mix them well .

Add tomatoes,saute & cook for another 2 minutes. (Dont saute too much so that the tomatoes gets mashed, I personally like it to be in its form.)

Mix in the spices .(The whole kitchen starts smelling...hmmmmm.)
Saute , check for the salt .
Cook until the tomatoes gets cooked .

Time for the eggs.
Make 4-5 slits around the boiled eggs .
Cover it with the cooked onions.
Another 1 minute & my Egg curry is ready to go with Battoora or Puri,Naan or Couple of chappathis .

Made this Dry egg curry on a fine Sunday morning & had it with Battura..
A must try curry :)

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