Egg poriyal | Muttai poriyal | South Indian egg bhurji
Egg poriyal is the tasty South Indian style of making egg bhurji with onions, chillies and pepper powder.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 5 eggs
- 3 tbsp oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp gram dal
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 2 green chillies
- 1 big onion
- ¾ tsp salt
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- ¾ tsp black pepper powder
Instructions
Preparation:
- Break the eggs and take in a deep bowl.
- Beat them well and keep aside.
- Chop onions and green chillies.
Recipe to make Muttai poriyal:
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
- Let the mustard splutter in hot oil, add gram dal and urad dal. Fry them to golden brown color and add chopped chillies.
- Put chopped onions and required salt for the eggs.
- Add curry leaves and turmeric powder.
- Now pour the beaten eggs and start mixing.
- Stir and mix quickly and continuously.
- Eggs tend to cook fast in just five to eight minutes. Cooking eggs in a flat pan is always a good choice.
- Stir well without break, scrap the sides of the pan and mix well.
- Soon the eggs become solid and start leaving the pan.
- Continue to cook for total ten minutes if using five or six eggs.
- Finally add a lavish quantity of black pepper powder, mix and switch off.
- Serve hot as a filling breakfast or as a side dish during lunch or dinner.
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Notes
Tips: 1) Instead of green chillies, use only pepper powder while making for very young kids.
Nutrition
Calories: 160kcal
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