Chettinad Egg Curry is a South Indian Spicy Egg Curry. This curry goes well with Roti, Rice, Dosa. Do you love spicy curry? Then this is for you.
Chettinad Cuisine
Chettinad Cuisine is the most renowned and popular cuisine of Tamil Nadu, South India. It uses a variety of spices and the dishes are made from ground masalas. Most of the dishes are had along with rice or rice-based dishes like Idli/ Dosa, Appam, Paniyaram, Idiyappam/ String hoppers. Chettinad cuisine offers a variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. The spices mostly used in this cuisine are,
- Star aniseed
- Peppercorn
- Fennel seeds
- Fenugreek seeds
- Chili
- Cumin seeds
- Cloves
- Cardamom
- Cinnamon
- Bay leaf
Chettinad Egg Curry
As I said, Chettinad cuisine is spicy and aromatic, however, you can adjust the hotness of the curry by adjusting the chili. I would say that this Egg curry is a simple and easy version. We use fresh ground coconut with the whole spices. The hard-boiled egg is cooked in the ground coconut and masala paste.
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How to make Chettinad Egg Curry Recipe
The first step to making this egg curry is to cook hard-boiled eggs. Try my Instant Pot Hard-boiled egg to get perfect, easy-peel hard-boiled eggs every time. Grind coconut with the whole spice to smooth paste. Saute chopped onions and tomato. Add the ground coconut paste along with the required water. Add the cooked eggs and cook till the masala gets coated. Serve this curry with chapati or rice.
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Recipe for Egg Curry Chettinad Style
Ingredients
Hard-Boiled Eggs – 4
Onions – ½ Cup sliced
Tomato – 2 chopped
Green Chili – 2
Cumin seeds – ¼ Tsp
Salt – As required
Oil – 2 Tbsp
Curry leaves – few
Cilantro – few
To grind
Coconut – ¼ Cup
Coriander powder – 1 ½ Tsp
Chili powder – 1 Tsp
Poppy seeds – ½ Tsp
Fennel Seeds – ½ Tsp
Garlic pods – 4
Cilantro – Few
Method
- Grind all the ingredients under ‘ to grind’ to smooth paste with the required water.
- Heat oil in a pan and splutter cumin seeds.
- Add sliced onions and green chili.
- Saute till the onions turn golden.
- Add the ground coconut paste, and tomato, and add the required water.
- Add turmeric powder and the required salt.
- Let it boil for 5 minutes on medium flame.
- Then add the hard-boiled eggs. You can add it as a whole or half-cut.
- Let it boil for two minutes and add chopped cilantro.
- Serve the egg curry with roti, rice, or dosa.
Notes
- Adjust the chili powder if you don’t want very spicy.
Chettinad Egg Curry – Spicy Egg curry for Chapati
Ingredients
- 4 No Hard-boiled Eggs
- 1/2 Cup Onion Sliced
- 2 No Tomato Chopped
- 2 No Green Chili
- 1/2 Tsp Turmeric powder
- 1/4 Tsp Jeera /Cumin seeds
- 2 Tbsp oil
- Salt As required
- Curry leaves few
- Cilantro few
To grind
- 1/4 Cup Coconut
- 1 1/2 Tsp Coriander Powder
- 1 Tsp Red Chili powder
- 1/2 Tsp Poppy Seeds
- 1/2 Tsp Fennel Seeds
- 4 No Garlic pods
- Cilantro few
Instructions
- Grind all the ingredients under ‘ to grind’ to smooth paste with required water.
- Heat oil in a pan and splutter cumin seeds.
- Add sliced onions and green chili. Saute till the onions turn golden.
- Add the ground coconut paste, tomato and add required water.
- Add turmeric powder and required salt.
- Let it boil for 5 minutes on medium flame.
- Then add the hard-boiled eggs. You can add as a whole or half cut.
- Let it boil for two minutes and add chopped cilantro.
- Serve the egg curry with roti, rice or dosa.
Video
Notes
- Adjust the chili powder if you don’t want very spicy.
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I had never thought of using a curry for eggs but I can see how tasty they would be with this sauce mix. My daughter in law will particularly like this spice combination!
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This curry looks and sounds delicious. I’m not sure that I’ve ever had a curry with egg in it, but I am totally up for trying this because it sounds perfect together!
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Big fan of chettinad cuisine and love it. This sauce is my favorite. Saving it for later.
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Whenever I see the word “spicy” that recipe has my full attention. I LOVE spicy food, so this curry would be perfect for me 🙂
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I love spicy curry and will love this egg curry. We use lots of curry in our cooking, too so I can’t wait adding this variation to our dinner rotation.
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I love curries, especially spicy ones. I can’t wait to give this one a try!
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Roti is my all time favourite bread, so any recipe that gives me an excuse to eat roti is a winner! The curry looks really rich and flavourful. Perfect!
Thank you. Glad you liked it. Do give a try and let me know your feedback.
I like Chettinad cuisine specially due to the spice level it has in each of its dish. For me egg generally has no taste and adding it to such a flavourful curry will add so much to taste.
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I do love a good curry! I fully admit I buy the premade curry because it’s easy. But you also make it look super easy to create my own from scratch. I’ve never heard of adding egg to the curry, so I’ll definitely have to give this a shot
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My husband and I love spicy curry so this recipe was made for us. He’s going to be so excited that this will be on our menu next week!
Thank you. Hope you enjoy having this.
Yum, I live spicy curries so I know this will be a winner! I love the hard boiled eggs addition too.
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This is a different way for me to eat eggs! I love curry and love eggs, but never thought to combine them. Great recipe!
Do try this,you will love it. Thank you.
No one can resist this curry which has a variety of spices and looks so delicious. Be great with rice or roti.
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