Egg drop curry with coconut milk is a delicious curry made by cracking and dropping eggs in a spicy onion and coconut-based curry. This curry tastes best when served with rice.
Course Main Course, Main Dish
Cuisine Goan, Indian
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Servings 4People
Author Raksha Kamat
Equipment
Mixer grinder
Kadai / wok
Ingredients
3Eggs
½cupchopped onion
5chopped garlic flakes
For the gravy:
4tablespoongrated coconut
2tablespoonfinely chopped onion
1tablespooncoriander seeds
1marble sized ball of tamarind
3dry red chilies
½teaspoonturmeric powder
Salt to taste
2tablespoonoil
Instructions
Grind together freshly grated coconut, coriander seeds, dry red chilies, tamarind and turmeric powder by adding ½ cup water. Add more water if needed while grinding. Ensure that the coconut is finely ground.
Heat a kadai/wok, add oil. After the oil gets heated add onion and fry till it turns pinkish.
Add chopped garlic, stir and fry till the raw smell of garlic goes away.
Pour the ground gravy into the onion garlic mixture in the kadai. Mix well.
One by one break and drop egg into the gravy carefully.
Discard the shells.
Let the egg get slightly cooked in the gravy. While cooking, add some hot gravy on top of the egg so that it gets cooked properly.
After some time, add salt to taste and stir well.
Notes
Break the egg from top of the curry and just drop it in the curry. Then with a spoon add hot curry on the egg yolk so that it gets cooked in the hot curry.