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Boiled Egg Fry

Boiled egg fry infused with butter and spices, coated with spicy curry to make a perfect no-carb quick meal!
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Servings: 3

Ingredients

Ingredients for Buttery Spicy Boiled Eggs

  • 6 Hard Boiled Eggs peeled and cut in half, you can use pressed tofu as an egg sub
  • 1 tbsp Butter
  • ¼ tsp Red Chili Powder
  • ¼ tsp Garam Masala
  • 2 pinch Salt
  • 2 pinch Black Pepper Powder
  • 2 pinch Turmeric Powder

Spicy Sauce

  • 1 tbsp Butter
  • ¾ cup Very Finely Chopped Onions
  • ¾ cup Very Finely Chopped Tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp Thecha Chutney (Red Chilli- Garlic Chutney) or 2 tsp Trader Joes hot pepper bomba sauce
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • ¼ tsp Red Chili Powder
  • ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder
  • 1 tsp Dhana Jiru Powder cumin coriander pwoder
  • 1 tsp Garam Masala
  • ⅓ cup Water

Garnishing

  • ¼ cup Finely Chopped Cilantro

Minty Yogurt Sauce

  • ½ cup Plain Greek Yogurt
  • ½ cup Sour Cream
  • 1 Serrano Pepper
  • 2 clove Garlic
  • ½ cup Cilantro
  • ¼ cup Mint
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Cumin Powder

Instructions

Make Minty Yogurt Sauce

  • Blend all ingredients listed under minty yogurt sauce to make a grainy paste. Keep it refrigerated if making it ahead of time.

Make Buttery Spicy Boiled Eggs

  • Hard boil 6 eggs. Peel them and cut them in halves. Keep them aside.
  • Heat up butter in a pan, once its melted but not hot, add red chili powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, salt, and black pepper.
  • Mix the spices in the butter and place hard boiled egg haves in the masala butter inside pan. Facing the cut side down.
  • Cook all egg halves on low/medium heat for couple of minutes. Do not over cook it. Be careful with the heat so that the spices in the butter does not burn.
  • Flip them carefully and cook the other side for couple of minutes same way. So that now egg halves are fully coated with buttery spices.
  • Take the buttery spicy egg haves out of the pan and keep it aside.

Make the Spicy Sauce

  • In the same pan add 1-2 tbsp of butter. Once melted saute onions till translucent.
  • Add chopped tomatoes and saute till they are completely mushy and starts to loose water.
  • Add thecha chutney (or TJ's bomba sauce), red chili powder, salt, turmeric powder, dhana jiru (cumin coriander powder), garam masala.
  • Mix everything very well and cook the spice mix for 3-4 minutes on medium heat. By this time all the extra water/moisture should be gone from the spice mix.
  • Add ⅓ cup of water and mix well. Bring to simmer and cook for another couple of minutes. Add chopped cilantro and mix well.
  • Once the sauce consistency gets like thick paste, place the spiced up egg halves in the sauce. Facing the cut side down.
  • Let the cut side cook for 1 minute and then flip it, making sure the flipped side now has some spicy sauce stuck to it.
  • Flip the egg halves and cook the other side for another minute.
  • Garnish them with fresh cilantro. Serve them with some flaky parathas and side of minty yogurt!
    boiled egg fry

Notes

You can sub eggs with pressed firm tofu. Follow the exact steps using cubed tofu instead of boiled eggs.