Sambal Egg / Egg Masala

Ingredients:

5 hard boiled Eggs

2 onions (Finely Chopped)

1 tbsp garlic ginger paste

3 Tomato (Finely Chopped)

1 tsp Fennel seed

1 tsp Garam masala

2 tbsp Tomato Puree

1/4 tsp Sugar

3 tbsp oil

Salt to taste

To grind:

10 -12 Dry red chillies (Deseeded)

Method:

• Soak the deseeded dry chillies in a cup of hot water for about 10-15 mins. Drain, cool it and grind it into a fine paste with few splashes of water. Keep aside.
• make small slits on the white part of the boiled egg and keep aside.
• Heat the oil in a wok and add the fennel seeds. Then add grinded chilli paste together with the garlic ginger paste. Fry till the raw chilli smell leaves.
• Then add the onion and stir fry for few mins.
• Then add the tomatoes and tomato puree. Cook till tomatoes are smashed and the oil comes to the surface.
• Now add the garam masala, sugar, salt and 1/2 cup of water. Stir well to combine everything together.
• When the sambal content boils and oil comes to the surface, add the boiled eggs.
• Simmer the sambal for 2-3 mins and switch off the stove.
• Serve the sambal egg garnished with some finely chopped coriander leaves.