Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Egg Bhurji

As taken from this website: http://www.route79.com/food/egg-bhurji.htm. I'll post the ingredients and instructions here, but I'd advise you to go to the website. She gives picture of each step and everything! Delicious , quick, and easy.

Ingredients:
5 eggs - beaten - add some milk for extra volume if required.
The usual chunks ginger, chillie, garlic from your freezer (thawed of course)
2 medium-sized potatoes peeled and chopped into pieces the size of, say, board-game dice
2 medium onions chopped the same way
2 (heaped) teaspoons ground coriander
1 teaspoon salt
2 (heaped) teaspoons garam masala
half teaspoon of haldi (turmeric)

Instructions:
First of all - get a large frying pan - heat up a couple of tablespoons of your usual vegetable oil in it - we use cholesterol-free sunflower oil. Get the chopped potato frying until they are golden brown on the surface.

Then add the chopped onion to the pan - mixing it all about - and frying until the onion is soft and translucent. At that point add the thawed pulp of garlic, ginger and chillie - be generous with the garlic and ginger.

OK - when the garlic, ginger starts to show signs of browning a little - add the dry ground spices and give the whole pan a thorough coating of all the spices. The mixture in the pan will probably be quite dry by now - don't worry about that - keep it moving in the pan using a wooden spoon.

After a few mins - pour the beaten eggs into the pan - and leave everything alone until the egg starts to set. As the egg is setting - stir about infrequently and gently so that it breaks up - and once the egg as set completely the scrambled egg pieces wiill start to become coated in the spices as well. Keep everything stirring.

Use your wooden spoon to break up and large egg pieces so that everything in the pan is roughly the same size. When it's done - keep to one side - but keep warm - and get some toast or pitta bread warmed up - or if you are feeling a bit adventurous like myself and Mrs.79 were tonight: make some fresh roti (chappati) and pickle - and then simply place the frying pan at the dining table and share the eating experience right out of it! This is great - because not only do you cut down on the washing up - but the egg bhurji stays warm on the surface of the previously hot frying pan!

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