dal with egg
This dal with egg is a simple yellow dal with pickled chillies and a sliced omelette stirred through. Wholesome, flavourful everyday food.
eggs
Recipes featuring eggs, whilst not common, are found in many parts of India.
In Mughlai cusine eggs are often used as garnish. A biryani is usually served with boiled and quarted eggs as decoration. There are several recipes in this book that use eggs this way.
The wonderful kathi kebabs have a layer of egg cooked onto the enclosing roti. We even see eggs cooked into dal.
Egg-based snacks, such as egg chaat are not to be missed. Nor is akoori, the famous Parsi scrambled eggs.
Want to impress your diners? Try nargisi koftas, which are the origin of Scotch eggs, but are on a completely different level.
egg chaat
Take some boiled eggs, onion, tomato and a few spices and you have egg chaat, or anda chaat, another great street food from Delhi.
Keralan egg curry
A simple coconut masala with halved eggs. Mootay moli is the Keralan egg curry - so easy, simple, wholesome and bursting with flavour.
Parsi scrambled eggs
Scrambled eggs done the Parsi way. Akoori can be served at breakfast, as a snack, for lunch, or for a light evening meal.
nargisi kofta curry
Nargisi kofta is an Awadhi dish, featuring boiled eggs covered in spiced lamb and served in a spicy yoghurt and tomato sauce.