Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Other Egg Curry

I often make egg curry where you boil some eggs, make the usual curry sauce with onions, ginger, garlic and tomatoes and throw in the eggs into the sauce. Pretty simple and of course, delicious.

Now I remember, back when I was a kid, my mom used to make the regular egg curry (with the boiled eggs) and also another kind wherein she would first make an omelette and then cut it into bite sized pieces and put this into the curry sauce. To be honest, I used to hate that version of egg curry! But apparently my dad quite enjoyed it. Not sure about my brother, though.

Last evening I ended up making the very same egg curry, omelette style!

I took:

1. Eggs- whisked them up the old way with a fork and made one big, fluffy (and it was super fluffy!) omelette. I then cut the omelette into bite sized pieces.

 Gorgeously Fluffy Omelette!

Cut up into bite sized pieces

2. Onion finely chopped, grated ginger+garlic, tomato paste.


3. A couple potatoes.


4. Cumin, fennel and mustard seeds, salt, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, oil, water.


The Curry Sauce:


1. Just heated up some oil in a pot, spluttered cumin, mustard and fennel seeds and threw in the onion, ginger and garlic and sauteed it a bit. Then added some tomato paste, followed by some salt, red chilli powder and garam masala. Added some water and brought it to a boil.


2. Then added the potato (rough chopped) into this and covered the pot so as to cook it.


And Finally: 

After about 15 minutes, when the potato was cooked, added the omelette pieces into the curry. Covered the pot and let everything hang out.

Omelette curry! Almost looked like fish curry!

Served with:

Some quick simple peas and "jeera" (cumin) fried rice. The fluffy omelette pieces had soaked up the beautiful curry sauce. One bite and it was a blast of juicy goodness in your mouth........mmm, fantastic!

Omelette Curry over some peas-jeera fried rice

It is funny how my taste buds have changed over the years. I mean, I used to hate this omelette curry as a kid and look at me now--- I quite like it! My husband and son like it too. As for my daughter..........well, she reminds me of me all those years ago!! 

4 comments:

adibud34 said...

Tis Omelet curry is a chinese dish actually. Tis called Foo Yung, and tis typically in garlic sauce!

Aparna Heroor said...

Really? But I thot the chinese version doesn't involve making the omelette part-- the eggs are just thrown in raw and then they get cooked in the hot sauce.......?

Sid H said...

Wow, this is a bit unusual. How did the Guinea pigs like it?

Aparna Heroor said...

@Sid- well, the boys were happy, but the girl said she prefers the other version! :)