Egg curry...

There are days when i feel toooo lazy to cook, so i end up with this quick side dish  to pair up with lunch or dinner! 

Prep time: 15 Mins
Cooking time: 10 Mins
Serves: 4

Ingredients:
Eggs - 4 Hard Boiled
Onion - 2 Finely chopped
Tomato - 2 pureed
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Red chilly Powder - 1 tbsp
Jeera Powder - 1/2 tbsp
Tumeric Powder - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - few strands
Green chilly - 1 [optional]
Oil - 2 tbsp
Salt - to taste

Method:

1. Boil the egg's for 10 minutes, remove the shell and slice them into halves and keep it aside.
2. Heat oil in a pan, add the curry leaves and let them splutter, add chopped onions and sautee for couple of minutes, add ginger garlic paste and stir well in medium flame.
3. Once the raw smell goes off, add the tomato puree and give it a stir and allow it to cook for few minutes.
4. Now add all the powders mentioned above and mix well and combine, add salt to taste. wait until the oil in the curry oozes out!
5. Now gently add the boiled eggs to the curry **Do not stir too much as the yellow yoke tends to break at times. Jus  coat the egg with the masala & Leave it on heat for 2 mins and switch the flame off.


This will be a great combo for hot piping sambar, rasam, curd rice or even with soft phulkas!

Spicy Prawn Curry

Here comes the super side dish to accompany your piping hot rasam/sambar rice or even plain ghee rice. Also hubby's favo dish. =)

Ingredients:

Prawn - 1/2 kg - Cleaned & de-viened 
Onion - Medium 2 - chopped
Tomato - 3 - finely chopped
Ginger garlic paste - 1 1/2 tbsp
Curry leaves - a handful
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Oil - 4 tbsp
Lime juice - half lime - [optional]

For masala: [ Dry roast & Grind]
Peppercorns - 8-10
Jeera - 1 tsp
Saunf - 1 tsp
Dry chillies - 6-8
Shredded coconut - 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Wash and devien the prawns clean and keep it aside.

2. Heat a pan, keep the flame in medium and add all the above ingredients one by one mentioned "ForMasala". Dry roast and transfer them into plate and cool before grinding.

2. Grind all the ingredients into coarse powder without adding water. 

3. Now, Heat the pan, add oil, add the curry leaves, onions and sautee well. once it turns golden brown add ginger garlic paste and fry, add garam masala now add the chopped tomatoes and sautee further.

4. Add the ground coarse powder to it and stir well.

5. Now add the clean prawns, add salt mix once and close with lid and sim the flame.

After 3-5 mins the dish will be ready to serve. Off the flame and add lime juice and garnish with coriander.

Notes:

Do not over-cook the prawns more than 5 - 7 Minutes this will make the prawn rubbery.