Tamil Nadu

Muttai podimas

Name: Muttai podimas
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Tamil
Ingredients: 6 egg; 1 1/2 tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 1/2 tsp mustard seeds; 1/2 tsp urad dal (split black gram); 1 sprig curry leaves; 1 medium finely chopped onion; 2 finely chopped green chilli; a pinch turmeric (ground turmeric); 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp crushed black pepper; 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves (cilantro)

Tamil scrambled eggs with mustard, curry leaves and onion. Brunch, but make it amma's kitchen.

15 minTime

14 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

229kcal

14 gprotein

1 gfibre

15minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Egg6

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1½ tbsp

Mustard seeds½ tsp

Urad dal (split black gram)½ tsp

Curry leaves1 sprig

Onion1 medium, finely chopped

Green chilli2, finely chopped

Turmeric (ground turmeric)a pinch

Salt½ tsp

Black pepper½ tsp, crushed

Coriander leaves (cilantro)1 tbsp chopped

Method

4 steps

1Heat the oil, splutter the mustard, then add the urad dal and curry leaves.
2Add the onion and chilli and cook on medium until soft.
3Add turmeric and salt, pour in the beaten eggs and leave for 20 seconds, then scrape and break them into small curds.
4Keep stirring until fully set with no runny egg, then add pepper and coriander and take off the heat.

Serve it like this

Serve warm in a small bowl next to rasam rice, or roll into a hot chapati.

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Muttai podimas

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