Egg malai

Egg malai is a low spice dish cooked in a rich creamy gravy. Egg malai is a simple yet delicious dish that can be prepared with readily available ingredients. This creamy and rich gravy tastes best with chapati, idiyappam, appam, steamed rice or with any other flavored rice.

Serves : 2

Ingredients

• 2 hard boiled eggs (peeled and halved)
• 3 medium onion, roughly chopped
• 2 green chilies
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1/2 tsp cumin seeds/jeera
• 2 – 3 cardamom pods
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp black pepper powder
• 1/2 tsp garam masala
• 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves
• 3/4 cup milk
• salt to taste

Method

• Grind onion, green chili into a fine paste. Add 1/2 tsp of turmeric paste to the paste. Mix well and set aside.
• Heat oil in a kadai, add cumin seeds, cinnamon and cardamom pods saute for few seconds.
• Next add ground onion paste and ginger garlic paste saute for 2 minutes . Further add coriander powder, black pepper powder and garam masala until it turns brown color.
• Add milk to it and mix well. Also add egg halves to the gravy and pour the gravy slightly over the eggs. Cover and cook the eggs on a low flame for 3 minutes.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.Serve hot with chapati, idiyappam,appam or with rice.