Tomato Onion Fry with Egg

Tomato Onion fry with or without egg is a typical Kerala dish which can be combined with dosa/ chappathi/ roti/ phulka/ appam.

The below recipe serves for 2. I have taken this recipe from my mother-in-law.
Cooking time: 40 mins.

Ingredients:

• Tomatoes - 3
• Onions - 6
• Boiled Eggs - 2 (or 3)
• Garlic cloves - 4 (crushed)
• Ginger (crushed)
• Chilly powder - 5-6 spoons
• Cumin powder/ Jeera powder - 2 spoons
• Coriander powder - 2 spoons
• Salt
• Edible oil

Preparation:

• We need a lot of onions as they will reduce eventually during deep sauteing.
• Take a deep frying pan and pour edible oil generously (6 spoons). Add mustard seeds and let them crackle.
• Add crushed ginger garlic and saute for a min in high flame.
• Add finely chopped onions and saute on high flame for 15 mins till the onions reduce and become almost dark brown.
• Add cumin powder, corainder powder , chilly powder and salt and saute for 2 mins. Idea is to get a dark brown mixture. 

• Add the chopped tomatoes and saute well. Add more edible oil and continue to saute.
• Saute till the mixture reduces and reduce the flame to low. Masala is ready now. If you do not want to add eggs, then skip the next steps.
• Peel off the boiled eggs and make 4-5 creases on them. This will allow the eggs to absorb the masala.

• Add the creased eggs into the masala and cook in low flame for 5 mins. Close it with a lid. Turn off the flame after 5 mins.
• Add coriander leaves to garnish.

This curry is very spicy and can be had even without the eggs. Either ways it will taste yummy.