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Egg stew is a dish you can see in almost all cuisines with slight variation the cooking process and the ingredients used. The best suitable dish which goes with this egg stew is Palappam and Vellayappam. Back home, this is one of the stew dishes we can expect on Sundays after the church service. We found it so tasty when we come home so hungry from church. The more we get late from the church the more we get hungry.. So my mamma’s egg stew was so tasty all those years.. If you don’t have time to make the main dish which goes well with this stew, there is a wonderful idea to grab a loaf of bread from the shop in advance!! And yep, the main dish is ready.. Seriously..
Generally speaking, stew can be made in different versions, with many main ingredients like chicken stew, Potato Stew, Vegetable Stew, beef, mutton, etc.,. We Keralites always would have side dishes for our breakfast. Egg is one of the common items we always find in our refrigerator. So, when you are planning to make a quick side dish, this would be an ideal one. Most of the other ingredients used in this dish also are common and easily accessible to the one in our kitchen.
Here, onion, green chillies, ginger and garlic and tomatoes are sautéed in oil along with some whole spices. Then besides these ingredients, eggs too are simmered in coconut milk. Finally we do the seasoning of this Egg Curry with mustard seeds, shallots, red chilly and curry leaves in oil. Now the Egg Curry or Egg Stew is ready..
Servings – 6
Recipe Type – side dish. So here we go..
Ingredients for making Egg Stew:
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Hard Boiled Eggs, cut it into halves – 6
Coconut Milk – 1 ½ cups
Big Onion / Savala – 2 big, finely sliced
Tomato – 4 small,
Green chilli ( slit lengthwise) – 3
Homemade Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tbsp.
Cinnamaon/ Patta – 1 inch
Cardamom / Elakka– 1
Cloves/ Grambu – 3
Bay Leaf / Vayana Ila – 1
Fennel Seeds / Perum Jeerakam– 1 tsp.
Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp.
Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp.
Coconut Oil – 2 tbsp.
Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp. Curry Leaves – 1 sprig
Salt – to taste
Water – 1 ½ cups.
How to Make Egg Stew:
Boil the eggs by adding little salt until done. When it is cold enough to handle, peel the shells, slit it or cut it in the desired shapes. Keep it aside.
Melt coconut oil in the pan on medium high. Add in whole spices and sauté it. Next add Fennel seeds. After few seconds, add in Onion and little salt. Sauté it until onion turns translucent. Now add the ginger garlic paste. Sauté for 2 minutes. Next add the slit green chillies and again sauté it for 0ne minute. Next add the sliced tomatoes. Sauté again.
Now add turmeric powder and coriander powder. Add salt too. Mix it and add in little oil now. Sauté it well for a couple of minutes. Add 2 cups of water and let it come to a boil. (Refer My Recipe Notes below). Now add the coconut milk and stir it slowly until everything is incorporated well. Reduce the flame to lowest and let it come to a boil or till the gravy becomes thick. When this stew is at your desired taste, add in half sliced boiled eggs. Let it simmer a bit.
Now do the seasoning. Take another small pan. Add 1 tbsp. oil. When it is hot, add mustard seeds. Next add the sliced shallots. When shallots turn brown in colour, add the curry leaves and swich off the stove. Pour this seasoning in to the Egg Stew. Set it aside covered for about ten minutes, so the eggs will absorb the flavour.
Serve it hot with Appam / Palappam, Vellayappam,Idiyappam , Homemade Bread etc. Veg version of this recipe is Kerala Vegetable Stew.
My Recipe Notes on Kerala Mutta Ishtu:
1. Adding salt while boiling eggs will make it easier to remove the shells.
2. While sautéing veggies add little more oil, if it is required.
3. You can use Homemade Garam Masala Powder instead of the whole spices.
4. I used store bought Tinned Coconut Milk. It was thick, so I added it after adding little water in the gravy and waited for it to come for a boil. If you are using tinned coconut milk, add ¼ to ½ cup luke warm water to the coconut milk and mix it.
5. If you are using Coconut Powder, you need about 5 tbsp. coconut milk powder and 1 ½ cups of Luke warm water. Mix well and your coconut milk is ready.
6. The traditional recipe calls for the use of too much of water, so you can increase the amount of water used for making coconut milk. 2 cups of water is sufficient. Check the consistency level of the gravy that suits your desire, before removing from the stove.
7. Green Chillies quantity you can adjust according to your tolerance level.
8. You can reduce the number of Tomatoes and add 1 tsp. Vinegar instead of that.
9. You can reduce the number of green chilli by adding ½ tsp. Black Pepper Powder.
10. Be careful after adding coconut milk. Just a boil is enough. Switch off the flame, remove from the stove and keep aside.
11. Be careful while stirring the gravy after adding eggs. If you have already slit eggs, the egg yolk may get dissolved in the gravy.
12. You can add ½ tsp. chopped ginger while doing seasoning to enhance the taste.
Happy Cooking.. Cheers.. Seena.
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Egg Stew / Kerala Mutta Ishtu.
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Learn how to make Kerala Egg Stew, which goes well with appam, palappam idiyappam, puttu, vellayappam etc for breakfast. It is also known in Kerala as Mutta Ishttu.