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Kerala · Dinner

Egg Curry

🍗 Non-veg🌾 Gluten-free📊 Medium

Traditional 48. Egg Curry recipe

⏱️15 minPrep
🔥25 minCook
🕒40 minTotal
🍽️4Serves

🧺 Ingredients

👩‍🍳 How to make Egg Curry

  1. Boil eggs (12 mins, high heat): Bring water to boil. Add eggs and boil for 10 minutes. Cool in ice water, peel carefully, and halve lengthwise.
  2. Brown onions (3 mins, medium-high heat): Heat coconut oil, add sliced onions. Fry for 2-3 minutes until softened.
  3. Build spice base (3 mins, medium heat): Add ginger-garlic paste and cook for 1 minute. Add Kashmiri chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric, black pepper powder. Stir for 2 minutes; oil separates.
  4. Add tomatoes (3 mins, medium heat): Add chopped tomatoes, cover and cook for 2-3 minutes until broken down.
  5. Add water and thin coconut milk (2 mins, medium heat): Add 1/2 cup water and bring to gentle simmer. Pour thin coconut milk and bring to gentle simmer again.
  6. Add eggs (5 mins, medium-low heat): Gently add egg halves cut-side down to curry. Add green chilies and curry leaves. Simmer covered for 4-5 minutes without stirring to avoid breaking eggs.
  7. Enrich (2 mins, low heat): Pour thick coconut milk slowly around eggs, do not stir. Simmer for final 2 minutes. Gravy should be creamy and coat eggs evenly.

📖 Cultural notes

Egg Curry represents Kerala's vegetarian egg-eating tradition, where coconut milk and aromatic spices transform simple hard-boiled eggs into a luxurious, protein-rich meal. ---

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