My husband seem to be pushing my imagination to its limits when it comes to the food he lists on the weekly grocery. For last week, he wanted egg curry. I haven't heard about it from anywhere else so naturally, I went for a quick search and it turns out, it is indeed an already existing dish. And like any other dish, there are lots of different techniques on how to cook it.
I couldn't decide which recipe to follow and since I don't have a mental reference on how it tastes, I just imagined I'll be cooking chicken curry but instead of the chicken, I'll be cooking the eggs. It shouldn't be that difficult right? Although I must admit, my sister cooks the best chicken curry in town. I just don't tell her too often but I do request she cook it everytime I come by to visit.
Anyways, I decided I do a little bit of experiment for my egg curry. I went a bit experimenty on the ingredients.
Ingredients
5 pcs of hardboiled eggs
garlic cubed into small sizes
onion
garlic
bell pepper
tomato
curry powder
turmeric
heavy cream
salt and pepper
olive oil
Procedure
- Boil the eggs for 15 minutes. To make sure the shell can be easily peeled off, put the boiled eggs on iced water for 10-15 seconds.
- Once the egfs are boiled and peeled, fry them until they get a brownish and bubble-like appearance on their surface. Turn them over until you've fried all the sides evenly. Drain excess oil on paper towels. Set aside.
- On a pan, sautee onions and garlic first. Then add the ginger, bell pepper, and lastly the tomato. I'm not sure what I wanted to achieve with the tomato being added in here, I just saw one in the fridge and I thought I'd use it before it goes bad.
- Add in the cream. Mix it with all the ongredients thoroughly. Let it boil for a few minutes.
- Add the curry powder and mix it until the color changes. You can sprinkle a litlle bit of turmeric. At this point, you may add more spices like paprika or chilli powder but I have a toddler to feed so the chillis would be added upon serving instead.
- You may now add the fried hard boiled eggs. Just make it so the sauce covers the eggs entirely.
Well, I liked the outcome. The tomato did come out weird in the equation, my husband agreed but he still loved the eggsperiment.
I started watching Big Bang Theory and funny enough, the pilot episode mentioned something about curry being a natural laxative. What can I say, it's good for the health so let's all have curry!