Egg Slices

Egg Slices

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

Yesterday I tried this something different dry item from boiled eggs. Turned out quite nice and a good change from routine egg dishes.


Ingredients
4 Eggs
1 Onion
2 Green Chillies
1/4 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
1/4 Spoon Corriander Powder
A pinch of Black Pepper Powder
A pinch of Cinnamon Powder
Corriander Leaves to garnish
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Boil eggs in water, slice them and keep aside
• In a flat pan, heat oil and add finely sliced green chillies in it
• Add onion and cook till onion is translucent
• Add black pepper powder, corriander powder, cinnamon powder, sliced eggs and salt. Cook for 3-4 minutes with constant stirring.
• Garnish with finely chopped corriander leaves and red chilli powder

Notes
I didnt want to use to many masalas and also the usual combination of masalas in it as I wanted to give it different taste. Cinammon was great choice as it did distinct it from other routine dishes.

Egg Roll

Egg Roll

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

I never imagined that egg roll can mean so much to bengalis :) Recently when I went to Puja Pandals, I saw most people at roll stand than in pandals :) Earlier ajoy use to ask me for egg roll and I use to thing he would love parathas more than egg roll. Probably you can say I didnt understand the roll importance :) But after attending puja this year, the first thing I had made my mind to surprise some day with rolls. So today for breakfast when I had almost nothing left at home I prepared this and he indeed was pleasantly surprised :)


Ingredients
3 Spoon Heaps of Maida
1 Spoon Heaps of Wheat Flour
3 Eggs
1 Onion
2 Green Chillies
Hot and sweet Tomato Ketchup
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Mix maida and wheat flour with salt to taste and little oil and knead the dough. Keep aside for atleast half an hour
• In a small pan, add little oil around half spoon or little less and heat it.
• Add sliced onions and green chillies to it and cook them till onions lose their rawness and look light brown. Keep aside
• Make 3 balls out of the dough and roll them thin one by one.
• Heat tawa and transfer the rolled roti on to the tawa. Put little oil from sides
• When one side is almost done flip the roti and let the other side cook for a while.
• Break the egg directly onto the cooking roti and spread it all over the roti and let it cook for a minute or so.
• Flip it, add oil from sides and cook from the egged side till egg is cooked completely.
• On a plate keep a kitchen towel such that it covers the 2/3rd of the plate.
• Transfer the cooked egg roti on to this plate. Egg side on top.
• Spread the 1/3rd mixture of cooked onion and chilli in the middle as one line. Add single ketchup line to taste.
• Now roll the egg roti into the egg roll with the kitchen towel and close the napkin from the bottom.
• Repeat same process for remaining two rolls.

Notes
I didnt use complete wheat flour for roti as otherwise you tend to get wheat flour taste in the roll which I dont like in the roll. I didnt use complete maida because otherwise after cooking the rotis tend to get too hard. Hence this combination.
While rolling the roti, the best way to get perfect roll is to first put one side over the other such that mixture is covered and is tightly filled in from one side. and then roll it into the roll from same side.

Egg Biryani

Egg Biryani

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

I have been stocking eggs for a while now. So for a while i was thinking of recipies that i could try and then thought let me cook something which is a meal in itself so that i dont have to cook anything else :) Here is the recipe..


Ingredients6 Eggs
1.5 Cup Rice
1 Onion
2 Spoon Cashews
2 Tomatoes
1/4 Cup Pudina Leaves
1/2 Cup Corriander Leaves
1/4 Spoon Ginger Paste
1/4 Spoon Garlic Paste
2-3 Green Chillies
1/4 Spoon Garam Masala
1/4 Spoon Jeera Powder
1/4 Spoon Corriander Powder
1/4 Spoon Cinnamon Powder
2 Pinch of Cardamom Powder
2 Pinch of Cloves Powder
A Pinch of Nutmeg Powder
A Pinch of Turmeric Powder
1 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
5-6 Cloves
5-6 Cardamoms
1 Cinnamon Stick
Salt to taste
Oil
Ghee

Method

• Soak rice in the water and keep aside
• Hard boil 3 eggs and cut them into halves and keep aside
• Heat oil and fry the slices of onions in it and keep aside.
• In same oil, fry the cashew nuts and keep aside
• Again in same oil, fry the halved hard boiled eggs and keep aside
• In same oil, add the remaining 3 eggs
• Keep stirring conitnuously, and cook till the eggs form flakes and oil separates out
• Add turmeric powder, a pinch of cardamom powder, cloves powder, nutmeg powder, half of cinnamon powder, red chilli powder, salt to taste and stir well. Keep aside
• In a pan heat oil and add finely chopped tomatoes and cook them till they are almost done.
• Add pudina leaves and all the corriander leaves except a spoon of them
• Add the garam masala, finely chopped green chillies, jeera powder, corriander powder, ginger paste, garlic paste, a pinch of cardamom powder, a pinch of cloves powder and remaining cinnamon powder
• Stir well and cook till compeltely done and keep aside
• Cook rice in same water till almost done and keep aside
• Heat ghee and add cinnamon stick pieces, cloves, cardamom
• Add this mixture to the rice
• Now grease the cooker or the pot that can go in cooker with ghee
• Add half of rice
• Mix tomato-masala and egg masala and layer it on top of rice
• Layer the remaining rice over this
• Spread onions and cashews on top of this
• Cook it till rice is compeltely done
• While serving mix this rice and fried egg pieces and serve

Notes
I layered the biryani in a pot and cooked it in cooker putting very little water and without a whistle. This helped in non sticky - non burnt biryani
If you are planning to layer the biryani in cooker itself you might want to use the trick of layering boiled potatoes so that biryani doesnt get burnt. More details in Chicken Biryani Recipe

Chicken Lollipop

Chicken Lollipop

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

I had prepared this long time back, around 20 days back and just forgot to post this recipe in my hectic schedule. The recipe is simple and tasty :)


Ingredients
8 pieces of Chicken Lollipops
1/2 cup Maida
1/4 cup Corn Flour
1/2 spoon Ginger Paste
1/2 spoon Garlic Paste
1/2 cup Corriander leaves
1 Spoon Red chilli powder
1/4 spoon Turmeric powder
1/4 spoon Garam Masala
1 Egg
A pinch of Edible Red Colour
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Marinate the lolipops with salt, ginger and garlic paste and keep for 5 minutes
• Add finely chopped corriander leaves, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, red colour, maida and corn flour and mix well
• Add the egg and again mix well
• Keep aside for 1 hour with marination.
• Heat oil in a pan and fry the lollipops on medium heat

Notes
You can add curry leaves powder a pinch to get a different taste.
Also can wrap the bony side of the lollipop with aluminium foil, I was out of stock when i prepared this.

Veg Nargisi Kabab

Veg Nargisi Kabab

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

Ok this is in not purely veg but then its not completely non veg dish as well. :) I had read about nargisi kabab in book and saw few pics as well and since then i wanted to try out this. Few months back I had tried the non veg version which is normally mentioned all around. But today I decided to try my muttor pattice kind of experience with this kabab and came up with this..


Ingredients
6 Eggs
5 Potatoes
1 spoon Corn flour
1 spoon Garam Masala
1/2 spoon Garlic paste
1/2 spoon Red Chilli powder
1/2 spoon Jeera powder
1/2 spoon Corriander powder
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Hard boil the eggs, remove the cover and keep aside
• Boil the potatoes
• When potatoes are little warm, grate them
• Heat a spoon of oil and add garam masala, garlic paste, red chilli powder, jeera powder and corriander powder
• Add the grated potato and cook for a minute
• Once mixture becomes warm mix salt and corn flour and knead.
• Divide this mixture into 6 round balls
• Press each ball to form cup shape, insert the boiled egg in it and complete the cover all alround the egg
• Fry these balls in oil till golden brown, divide them in half and serve with sauce or pudina chutney

Notes
While kneading the mixture, apply oil to your hands so that mixture isn't sticky.
You can add grated cauliflower in the potato mixture. I am going to try it some time.

Stuffed Egg Pasanda

Stuffed Egg Pasanda

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

I actually wanted to prepared egg pattice from boiled egg, but since there was no maida stock was over from my place as well as from the store where i buy the grocery, i decided to try something different and here is the result


Ingredients
1 cup wheat flour
3 hard boiled eggs
2 green chillies
Handfull of corriander leaves
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Preapare the dough from wheat flour the way one prepares for rotis and keep aside
• Grate the boiled eggs
• Mix grated eggs, finely chopped chillies, finely chopped corriander leaves and salt
• Roll the roti from the dough and use the egg mixture to get different shapes
• For Roll shape: Spread the egg mixture on top of the roti and then make the roll out of it and close all sides with water
• For Karanji Shape : Put the egg mixture on top of the roti and fold to get half round karanji shape. Close all sides using water
• Deep fry in oil

Notes
When I tried this, the dough was little loser and hence when i made the roll shapes i heated the roti from both side for a second on tawa so that it is not too sticky and thin.
You can also try other shapes eg, like samosa, which i didn't have patience for, with sticky dough

Egg Masala

Egg Masala

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

This is one of the tastiest egg dish I came across. I read this recipe in a book and thought of giving it a shot.. Had tried it earlier but it wasn't that successful.. So today i modified the way i cooked it and result was awesome :)


Ingredients
3 eggs
1 big onion finely chopped
2 tomatoes finely chopped
1 tea spoon red chilli powder
1/2 tea spoon garam masala
1 tea spoon ginger garlic paste
2 spoon corriander leaves
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Heat little oil in a pan
• Add finely chopped onion and stir well
• Add ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder and garam masala and still well
• Add finely chopped tomatoes and cook well till oil separates from the mixture and take down from flame
• Heat the tawa and coat it with litte oil
• Add the above mixture and spread it across to form thin layer of masala
• Break the eggs one by one and spread it on the masala without disturbing their yolks
• Cover with lid and cook on lowest possible flame till the egg sets
• Garnish with finely chopped corriander leaves

Notes
As the masala is already cooked there are high chances of it burning and sticking to tawa, Use the nonstick tawa for setting the egg that too on lowest possible flame.
It can be served with the bread and also with fulkas/parathas instead of other gravies

Egg Pattice

Egg Pattice

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

I had taken a short break (couple of weeks) as i wasn't feeling that enthusiasm to cook inside myself. After a Pune trip i did feel like cooking again :) And this was the break fast item i tried.. I had tried egg pattice earlier also but it had been really oily and had caused throat problem for both of us.. so i was little bit worried when i attempted it again but it really turned out well and so far no throat problems :D


Ingredients
1/2 cup Maida
1/2 cup wheat flour
2 eggs
1 onion finely chopped
1/2 spoon red chilli powder
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Make dough out of maida, wheat flour and salt to taste and keep aside for 10 to 15 minutes
• Beat eggs and mix finely chopped onion, red chilli powder and salt
• Make small balls out of dough and roll small fulka type rotis
• Preapre sticking mixture by mixing little maida and water
• On each roti, add around a spoon for 2 full of mixture of egg and quickly close all four sides of the roti by folding and sticking the sides of the roti
• Fry on low heat on a pan

Notes
Ajoy suggested of having cut green chillies instead of red chilli powder for that extra punch, but since yesterday i had already cooked khichadi with too much of chilli i wanted to avoid it. But i guess it would taste better (i remember i had made it with green chillies earlier.
Earlier i had prepared the pattice by deep frying them in the pan but it had turned out too oily, especially because the egg mixture comes out from pattice and soaks too much of oil. So this time i tried it on tawa and it turned out less oily but then less crispier as well. I would like to try cooking it for some time on tawa till internal mixture is well set and then deep frying it in pan for crispier pattice.
I would also want to try to use grated boiled eggs mixted with chillies, salt, corriander leaves instead of egg mixture, but that would be completely different taste i suppose so might turn out to be some different recipe

Veg Spring Rolls

Veg Spring Rolls

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

This is the recipe that I am using from the book that I got as a gift during my wedding.. The book is called 'हमाखास पाकसिद्धी' (Sure shot cooking).


Ingredients
5 spoon heaps of maida
1 egg
3 carrots
1 cabbage
2 onions
1 spoon Soya sause
1/2 spoon pepper
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Mix maida, egg, salt and enough water to form thin batter
• On a nonstick pan make thin small dosas
• Store all these dosas one above another by applying little corn flour in between them so that they don't stick to each other
• Cut carrots, onions, cabbage to form long thin pieces
• Heat little oil in pan and add cut carrots, cabbage and onion
• Half cook it on high flame mixing them well from time to time
• Add soya sauce, black pepper powder and salt to taste
• Mix 1/2 spoon maida and little water to form the paste which we are going to use for packing rolls
• On each dosa prepared earlier, put vegetable in the middle, fold both the ends and make roll of it and close them with sticking paste that we prepared.
• Fry these rolls on medium flame

Notes
Preparing thin dosas is important to get thin and crispy coating for spring rolls
Also its good to prepare small small dosas so that while serving you need not cut the rolls and which saves from risk of mixture being coming out of the roll

Dim-er Dhoka

Dim-er Dhoka

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

This is one bengali recipe I learned while I was surfing.. I tuned it to my taste.. Dim in bengali means Egg.. Dhoka is Dhokala :) so its gravy of Egg Dhokala :) Egg Dhokala without putting in gravy is also very tasty and nice breakfast or snacks item.. When I prepare gravy its very hard to resist eating these dhokas and save them for gravy :)

Dhoka


Ingredients
6 eggs
1 small finely chopped onion
1/4 cup finely chopped corriander leaves
3-4 finely chopped green chillies
1 spoon ginger paste
3 spoon milk
Salt to taste
A pinch of baking powder

Method

• Beat the eggs in a bowl.
• Add chopped onions, chopped green chillies, finely chopped corriander leaves, ginger paste, pinch of baking powder, milk and salt. Beat well.
• Put it in a greased pressure cooker bowl and cook in your pressure cooker without whistle.
• After its done take it off heat and from cooker as soon as possible so that the dhoka doesn't stick to the bottom.
• Cut in cubes and Serve them or store for gravy.

Gravy


Ingredients
2-3 medium sized onions
3-4 medium sized tomatoes
1 spoon mustard and jeera
1 spoon ginger paste
1 spoon garlic paste
1/2 cup curd (optional)
2 spoon jeera powder
2 spoon corriander powder
2 cups of water
2 tea spoon sugar
1 spoon red chilli powder
3-4 green chillies finely chopped
Corriander leaves for garnishing
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Make Onion and tomato paste separately.
• Heat Oil in pan and add Mustard and Jeera
• As soon as it sputters add the Onion Paste and Sugar. Saute till the paste turns a light brown and you see the oil separate from the paste.
• Add the tomato puree, garlic paste and green chillies. Saute till the tomato is nicely done.
• Meanwhile in a bowl mix the curd with ginger paste, Cumin Powder, Corriander Powder and Red Chilli Powder.
• Take the pan off the heat and add the the above mixture.
• Mix well and then put it back on medium heat.
• Cook till gravy is well done and keep on adding water if it starts becoming too thick.
• Add salt boil it nicely. Add the dhokas and thicken the gravy on medium flame.
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaves if you wish

Notes
You can additionaly try putting chopped tomato in Dhoka but I don't like tomato mixed with beaten egg.
With 6 eggs it makes around 20 Dhokas.
When I cooked this for the first time I had used curd but yesterday I didn't use it and it suited me more. Curd gives typical odour thats what I feel.