Muttai Masaala Kuzhambu:(Country Style)

Egg Curry/ Egg Gravy.Muttai Curry. Anda Masala. Gulilu Masala.

This is my Mom's recipe again. And my brother likes this dish very much. One great speciality about this dish is.....the eggs used in this gravy is not boiled. Generally any type of egg curry (korma,masala,kuzhambu or pulusu)is just using some boiled eggs in gravy right! Here its like, breaking the eggs in hot-spicy gravy. Wow.....doesnt that sound nice to you! One of the amazing style.....the egg gets well incorporated in spicy gravy.

Ingredients:

Eggs 8-10(country chicken eggs)
Small onions 1 cup or use red onions instead
Green chilies 3 slitted
Country tomatoes small 3
Garlic 6 cloves crushed
Ginger 5" made into paste
Tamarind 1/2 spoon
Curry leaves few
Salt
Turmeric powder 1/2 spoon
Chili powder 1 spoon
Cinnamon stick 2
Cloves 2
Fennel seeds 1 spoon
Coconut piece 4" size made into paste
Whole Peppercorns 3-4
Sesame oil 1 cup.

Method:

In a wide-thick bottomed vessel, heat oil. Add cinnamon, cloves, fennel seeds and green chilies to it. Fry them for few minutes.

Followed by add, onion and fry them till golden color. Now add ginger and garlic to it. Fry them till it loses its raw odour.

Then add tomatoes and fry them till it looses its water content.

Now add salt, turmeric and chili powder and followed by tamarinf paste to it. Add enough water and cook them well covered.

Once it comes to thick gravy stage add coconut paste to it. Let it boil reall well.

Now held each egg on top of this gravy, break them and drop them in this gravy. Do it one after other. Do not break all the eggs at tyhe same place of the gravy. Its better to use wide-mouthed vessel for this gravy. so that you could have enough room for all your eggs.

Well....do not use any spatula after breaking in the eggs. Maybe you could cover and cook them over medium heat. It may take just 5-7 minutes or so.

Let it stand for 1-2 hours after this. So that all the spicy juice-the gravy will be well incorporated in your eggs. It will be yummy when served along with steam cooked rice.

Maybe you could garnis with crisply fried curry leaves.