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Egg curry is a comforting Indian dish of curried eggs. It is basically made with hard boiled eggs, onions, tomatoes, whole & ground spices and herbs. Indian cuisine is very diverse and an egg curry is made in several ways, with recipes varying by state and even by family.
Most Punjabi Dhabas serve a basic menu with limited options but their food is super flavorful and delicious. You will always find comforting dishes like Dal Fry, Dal Tadka, Tandoori Roti, Naan, Jeera rice and Egg curry (only in places serving meat).
This Dhaba style Egg curry is so good and is close to what you get in a Punjabi dhaba, except for the amount of oil and ghee since we prefer lesser in our everyday foods. A typical dhaba curry has lots of oil oozing out of the gravy and if this is what you like, please feel free to use more oil or ghee as mentioned in my notes below.
But onion and tomato puree gives the best results as this recipe does not use any other ingredient like cream, nuts or gram flour which is otherwise used in a lot of Indian dishes. I personally prefer the pureed version as my boys are super fussy to chunky curries.
12. Pour 1 to 1 cups water to make a gravy. Mix well and boil the gravy until it thickens. When it is done you will see some traces of oil on the gravy. Taste test the gravy and add more salt and sugar if needed. Sugar helps to balance the flavors and you may leave out.
In this post I have shown how a Punjabi dhaba style egg curry is made. But the tips mentioned below will help you swap in some ingredients for the other depending on your taste & availability of the ingredients.
1. Whole spices: Cumin, bay leaf, cinnamon, cardamoms & cloves are the whole spices that are used in a egg curry. However you can use whatever you have in hand. Even one or 2 kinds of spices will enhance the aroma of the dish. If you have mustard seeds just go ahead and use them.
4. Tomatoes: This recipe can be made with fine chopped or pureed tomatoes. Pureed tomatoes will prevent the curry from turning watery. In some places, I have seen Dhaba style egg curry is made with grated tomatoes.
A basic egg curry is made without any cream, cashews or coconut milk. We Indians make most regular curries without any of those. Only for occasions I do add them. Here are some variations you can make to the egg curry.
Hi Prarthna,
Onions when pureed or processed in fp, release some sulphuric compounds which turn bitter during cooking. To cut down that, it is essential to boil the onions first before pureeing. However some kind of onions (ex: yellow & white) do not impart these bitter flavors & IMO it also depends on the soil profile. Hope this helps.
This recipe has also been perfected over many years and fuses the recipes of countless people, including many deconstructed elements from a lifetime of consuming chhole all over Delhi, in homes and in the lanes. I used to waft between blackened and natural coloured chhole. Like everyone else, my mom uses black tea-leaves to darken the chhole. She would tie them in muslin and throw them in, and later retrieve the muslin pouch. Then she started to think it was too much work and would just add the leaves to the chhole; that I did not care for. Then I saw my friend Poonam (she of the onion-aloo-pakoras-in-kadhi-fame), show me an ingenious method to get the chhole to blacken without using tea leaves (which at that stage of my life, I did not want included in any other food stuff). She made her masala fresh, pan roasting the spices to a black shade of brown! Simple, it was! Just the way you do for goda masala.
Drain the chhole; some of what makes these beans hard to digest is water soluble and you will get rid of some of that this way. Rinse them out once more to make sure. Put them in a pressure cooker with enough water to cover them (by about an inch). If you like your chhole a bit on the softer side, add half a teaspoon of baking soda (more will make them mush) to the chhole. No salt at this point. Cook under pressure for 20 minutes, or cook covered in a heavy pan till tender.
Serve hot with poori, bhature, or naan, garnished with the green chillies you have set aside, wedges of tomatoes (drizzled with oil and swirled around in a hot pan for a minute or two, if you like), and lime. Now, I love chhole.
i have made friends with a kashmiri here in the compound & i enquired abt khawa tea.she said she will give me some when she makes it.it seems she brings the tea leaves from kashmir & acoording to her we do not get that tea here.
Thanks Anita for visiting my blog site and leaving encouraging words. It helps one to do more. I like your website and the way you have categorized food. I must say, i have to make this chole and serve my friends in the evening, here in Botswana. Lets keep in touch to share our experiences on food.
just discovered your great foodblog..i must say i love indian food but my knowledge is so limited to curries only..this post titilated my palate with this chickpeas recipe!! by the way i love your photos too
You guys have stomachs of steel. I made this with 4.5 cups of chhole, no garam masala, about 1/2 tsp of red chilli powder and it was still quite spicy. None of the kids could eat it without smothering it with dahi.
I used 2 dried red chillies in the fresh ground masala. I think my black peppercorns are spicier than yours! I added 2 green slit Thai chillies and sauted them just a little bit with the onion masala. Good thing I used only two and took them our rather quickly!
wll m student of hotel management and recently working on chhole . do u know pindi chole , lahori chole amritsari chhole ,chikkad chole , chana masala , chatpate chole if u know all with minute details like colour variatin , cooking method variation or else any difference i would like to know n as i was going through ur blog i guess ur a good chhole buddy right?
Thank you so much for a wonderful recipe, i have always tried to make a good chole never used to come out right for the first time it has come great i had followed all your instructions to a t. Had a question though is kashmiri garam masala the same as punjabi minus the zeera. My next recipe i have bookmarked is the Mutsch.
Thank you
Just wanted to let you know that I tried this recipe last night, and I must say that it is the best chole I had ever had. It was a bit spicy for me, but I can reduce the pepper next time. Really good! Next i will try your cauliflower recipe. Thanks for the lovely post.
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To tell you frankly, I have never tasted any bitterness in the masala or the finished dish, so I am quite clueless. From what some others have said here, maybe it is not-too-fresh spices, particularly the black cardamom. You could try using fresh ones in case you have had yours for some time, or reduce the quantity and see if it makes any difference.
I like chhole black but husband hates the taste of tea leaves. so, while looking for ideas, I came across yours. Made it the way you do and Voila! Its was great..Not just the color, also was more fragrant because of the freshly ground spices. Earned me some brownie points too, all of which goes to you. Thanks ?
anita, what a lovely blog.i didnt know there were so many lovely blogs out there from our part of the world (I only entered the blogging world two weeks ago). i love reading about delhi, have always wanted to visit- hopefully sometime soon as i have lots of friends there. but many in bombay, too. so, tough decision! your blog is lovely. best wishes, shayma
Wow! Mouthwatering recipe.Like to make it.
Can u tell me what is the one cup measure(in ml) in this recipe(according to that measure we will take the spices given by you)
New to cooking,expecting ur reply eagerly.
We will get back to u with the result once done soon.
Thanks.
Your dish features black cardamom very prominently, and my American palate is not quite ready for it. It tastes significantly different than the wonderful smoky roasted almond aroma the pod husk gives off. I made a mistake by not grinding the black cardamoms properly, and I ended up with some very tough bits in the final product.
One way to control the black cardamom flavour might be to omit it completely from the spice mix and instead add one or two to the cooking chickpeas. Traditionally, black-cardamom is braised in the liquid of a dish and not roasted or fried, as many other spices are. That should impart a much milder flavour. The flavour mellows if the chhole sit around in the fridge for a day!
Indian food can be as simple or as complicated as we want it to be. You will find many easy, everyday dishes in the other posts on this blog that you could test to continue your adventures into Indian cooking. Cook on!
Finally tried this choke, Anita. Came out delicious. I was remembering the chole of my childhood from the mithaiwala in Karol Bagh. I added some cranberries while frying the onion-tomato paste since I did not have raisins at hand. Also added some amchur. These two additions balanced the theekhapan with a Khatta-meetha undertone. This is the most delicious chole I have made. Thanks for the recipe.
hi there, very nice and easy steps you explained that even if some one is not familiar with Indian recipes, he /she also can understand from here easily . i love chana masala, i tried many time to cook at home but it was never up to mark.once i will try it again by following your steps.
Most Mughlai and Punjabi restaurants will serve you a plate of this goodness as do dhabas and street vendors with succulent morsels of slow cooked lamb in a thick gravy bringing sheer delight with every mouthful. The heat/ spice of the dish combines with the rich gravy and slight sweetness from the tomatoes that make it very hard to resist. I prefer Tandoori rotis as they have soft as well as a crispy texture which make scooping up the curry a joy.
Cooking Karahi Gosht at home has always for me been about getting the flavours just right and like I knew they should taste. This recipe is one that I can say is an absolute hit every single time with family and friends. The key here is letting the tomatoes and onions bring out the moisture in the gravy without the use of any water. I was recently asked how the lamb cooks without any water in a recipe for Sindhi Seyal Gosht as well. The principle is exactly the same making sure it cooks in its own juices along with the additional ingredients. The Karahi Gosht is slow cooked in a curry that is infused with spices including kala jeera (black cumin seeds), tomatoes and fresh chillies. The dish is garnished with fresh coriander, slivers of fresh ginger and chopped green chillies. Serve with roti, naan or pulao. To buy any of the spices or ingredients you can refer to the diary pages of the website.
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