Egg On Omelette

Here comes a very quick and easy recipe for breakfast... "Egg On Omelette"

Ingredients:

1. Egg - 2
2. Baby spinach - 2 cups
3. Oil - 1 tsp
4. Tomato Salsa - 2 tbs
5. Salt to taste

Method:

1. Beat an egg in a bowl
2. Add salt to taste and mix spinach leaves in it
3. Heat a small nonstick pan, and add 1 tsp of oil in it
4. Pour the egg spinach mix in it and make a small well in the center using a spoon
5. Cover it and cook for a minute
6. Spoon over the salsa on the spinach omlette and let it cook for a minute more
7. Slowly open up the second egg and pour it to the center well and switch off the pan

Serve the yummy eggy breakfast warm with a bread toast and coffee.. :)

Egg Curry

Recipe#22 from Mrs.K.M.Mathews recipe series!

Ingredients:

1. Eggs - 6
2. Coriander powder - 1 tbs
3. Chilli powder - 1 tsp
4. Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
5. Pepper powder / 1/4 tsp
6. Cinnamon - 1 inch piece
7. Cardamom - 2
8. Cloves - 3
9. Oil - 2 tbs
10. Onion, thinly sliced - 1/4 cup
11. Green chilli - 3
12. Ginger, chopped - 1 tsp
13. Garlic, chopped - 2 tbs
14. Vinegar - 1 tbs
15. Coconut milk, thin - 1.5 cups
16. Salt to taste
17. Potato - 2 medium sized 
18. Coconut milk , thick - 1/2 cup
19. Oil - 1 tbs
20. Ghee / clarified butter - 1/2 tsp
21. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
22. Onion, thinly sliced - 2 tbs
23. Curry leaves - few 

Method:

1. Boil the eggs and remove the egg shell and halve them
2. Grind the ingredients from 2 to 8 to fine paste
3. Heat 2 tbs oil in a pan
4. Sauté onion, ginger, garlic and green chilli till onion is transparent
5. Add ground masala to the above and sauté for 1 more minute
6. Add thin coconut milk and slowly bring to boil in low flame
7. Add potatoes and salt and cook till potatoes are done and gravy is thick
8. Add thick milk and bring to boil in low flame 
9. Once it starts to boil switch off the flame and add egg in to the curry
10. Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds and curry leaves in it
11. Fry onion in the above and pour it over the egg curry

Serve the curry hot with rotis or Pulav rice 

Egg Roast

Here is my second recipe in the Mrs.K.M.Mathews recipe series.I have tried out this yesterday for our lunch to go with Chapathi.This is an Egg Roast recipe with perfect blend of spices. It has the sweetness from onion, yet spicy and tangy. 

Ingredients:

1. Egg - 3
2. Red Chilli powder - 1.5 tsp
3. Coriander powder - 1.5 tsp
4. Pepper powder - 1 tsp
5. Aniseed - 1/2 tsp
6. Cinnamon - 1 inch
7. Cloves  - 2
8. Cardamom - 1
9. Oil - 3 tbs
10. Onion, sliced - 1 cup
11. Tomato chopped - 1/4 cup
12. Salt to taste
13. Water - 1/4 cup

Method:

1. Hard boil  and shell all the eggs
2. Grind to paste ingredients from 2 to 8
3. Heat oil in a pan
4. Fry onions till transparent
5. Add ground paste and give it a toss
6. When the comes out clear on pan sides, add tomatoes and let it cook
7. After tomatoes are blended well, add salt and 1/4 cup water
8. When the gravy reaches required thick consistency, take it off from flame
9. Arrange the egg(cut into halves) in a serving bowl and pour the thick gravy over it

Note:

• The only thing i did differently from the original recipe is to use egg as whole without cutting it into half. I have made slits on the egg instead and added eggs to the gravy during step 8.

Bread Puttu/Pittu

Bread puttu or pittu (some call it pittu, and others call it puttu) is an easy breakfast item which we used to enjoy during my stay at Trivandrum with my friends.

Ingredients:

1. Bread slices, white or brown - 5
2. Oil - 1 tbs
3. Onion chopped -  1 cup
4. Green chilli - 1
5. Ginger, minced - 1/2 tsp
6. Garlic, minced - 1/2 tsp
7. Egg - 2
8. Tomato chopped - 3/4 cup
9. Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
10. Chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
11. Chicken masala powder - 1 tsp
12. Salt to taste

Method:

1. Crumble the bread slices using your fingers. It need not be very fine or uniform.
2. Heat oil in a pan
3. Add onion, ginger, garlic and green chilli and fry till onion is translucent
4. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and chicken masala and mix well
5. Add chopped tomatoes and cook till the tomatoes are cooked well
6. Add salt to taste
7. Make a well in the pan centre by moving the onion mixture to the sides
8. Add eggs in the middle and stir the egg to make the egg scrambled
9. Once egg is half cooked, mix well with the onion mixture
10. Once the egg mixture is almost dry switch off the flame
11. In a puttu maker, make layers of bread crumbs and egg mixture, starting and ending with egg mixture.
12. Cook puttu in steam for 5 minutes

Steaming puttu is ready to be served

• Note:
• Above recipe yields 3 small puttu.(chiratta or bowl shaped small puttu)