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Recipe: Philo's Egg Curry

April 25, 2023 12:59 IST

For a time, we had a Mangalorean girl named Philomena working in our home.

She loved to cook and over the years pretty much mastered the way we liked our meals, learning even how to put together complicated soups, salads, north Indian favourites and South Indian fare and to bake bread too.

She eventually went back to her village outside Mangalore to look after her parents, but not before leaving me with a few of her signature recipes.

Philo's Egg Curry is much preferred in my home to any other recipe of egg curry. It has a typical but simple Mangalorean fish curry-type coconut base and is made sans fish with boiled eggs instead. It takes hardly 20 minutes to make.

Philo's Egg Curry

Photograph: Zelda Pande

Philo's Egg Curry

Serves: 3-4

Ingredients

Method

Zelda's Note: Those who do not eat eggs, can replace the eggs with ¼ kg bhindi or okra or lady's fingers, that's been cut into 1-inch pieces and pan fried. Or 250 gm baigan or eggplant, sliced, prefried.
It also makes the perfect curry for seafood in addition to half of the eggs or replace the eggs -- 250 gm prawns, shelled, tailed, deveined or 2-3 small pieces bhangda or mackerel or 250 gm tarli or Indian sardines.

ZELDA PANDE