Egg Masala / Tamilnadu Style Spicy Muttai Masala.
Easy and quick recipe for South Indian Spicy Egg masala / Egg Roast. Makes for an excellent side dish. With step by step pictures.
Food is memories. I never forget good food that I had somewhere. I had this egg masala at my friend Jenela’s place decades back when I was in school. She was my school mate. Life moved on but the memory of this egg masala stuck on to me forever. I still remember her mother serving seconds and thirds to everyone at that farewell party. She just stood next to us and made sure that everyone was stuffed. In India, food is love. “In the childhood memories of every good cook , there’s a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom.” This recipe is one of Jenis mom, Bagya auntie’s masterpiece. This egg masala needs to be there in everyone’s repertoire. Its simple, its easy and its finger licking good. Below is a pic of Bagya auntie and her husband. Those hands cook magic.
Now lets dive into the recipe.
Boil five eggs, peel and halve them and set aside. Here is the recipe for perfect hard boiled eggs.
Slice 3 onions and dice 3 tomatoes. Set aside. You want the onions nice and thin and long.
Heat a pan with 4 tablespoons of oil. Be generous with the oil. Its very important to add enough oil to get the ingredients nice and roasted. Once the oil is hot, add in the mustard seeds and 4 sprigs curry leaves. Let it pop.
Add in the sliced onions and fry till light brown. It will take about 10 minutes.
Add in the tomatoes, salt, cumin powder and pepper powder. Add in some chopped coriander leaves. Fry till the tomatoes are nicely cooked and juiced down. It will take about 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes add half cup of water to deglaze the pan and make it a little saucy.
Finally add in the boiled eggs and saute briefly to combine. Remove off heat and serve.
- 5 Hard Boiled Eggs
- 4 tablespoon Oil
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 4 sprigs curry leaves
- 3 Onions, Sliced
- 3 tomatoes, diced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon cumin powder
- 2 tablespoon pepper powder
- 2 tablespoon chopped coriander
- Slice 3 onions and dice 3 tomatoes. Set aside.You want the onions nice and thin and long.
- Heat a pan with Oil. Once the oil is hot, add in the mustard seeds and curry leaves. Let it pop.
- Add in the sliced onions and fry till light brown. It will take about 10 minutes.
- Add in the tomatoes, salt, cumin powder and pepper powder. Add in some chopped coriander leaves. Fry till the tomatoes are nicely cooked and juiced down. It will take about 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes add half cup of water to deglaze the pan and make it a little saucy.
- Finally add in the boiled eggs and saute briefly to combine. Remove off heat and serve.
Made this today reducing the ingredients to one part (for just 2 eggs). The spice levels were not adequate it came out tangy, am I missing something here?
No chillies at all? No green chillies or red chilli powder?
I have tried ur many recipes all came out very well. M a ni n hubby frm chennai he like pure south taste. Bef have tried manyth frm different page some time it ll cum nice some time it ll spoil..but ur recipes r unique. Always ll get perfect taste n tastiest.
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Thanks for this simple recipe.. it’s my first dish… 😀
Thank you.
I have been looking scrolling through the website here and there into most of your recipes being first time. The pictures posted itself make a mindset to crave and try it. Unsure how this will work when I cook:-) I will try few recipes and write back:-)I stay away from home(Qatar) and I need to cook myself. I am just fed up thinking of recipes same old ones maybe. Your recipes gives a motivation to cook. Thank you:-)
Thanks Sreeja. Hope you like the recipes. Let us know how it turns out!
Today only it happened to go through your website…..I felt you are amazing and caring?
Thank you so much for writing in. Really happy about your comment!
Tried this today ..!!!! Simple and Superb Dish…..
You are right! I absolutely love the flavor of this dish!
Tried this for lunch. Came out really good. Entire family loved it.
Thank You kavitha. I am really glad you liked the recipe. Happy cooking!
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