Egg Curry - Quail or Chicken Eggs, your wish

An Egg Curry with a little mulligatawny influences...

Following the quail egg post, hey hey...I have heard from you: One quail egg cholesterol is equivalent to one chicken egg. Goodness gracious! Even though the nutrition is much higher in quail egg, you tend to consume more quail eggs in one serving compared to chicken eggs (which we usually just have 1 each). That is the "danger" lurking...and it is extremely scary.

I ate 3 quail eggs from this dish I cooked, which means 3-4 chicken eggs in that one serving! I advise you to change to chicken eggs for this less-than-20 minute-recipe....if you wish.


Egg Curry
Ingredients: Few hard-boiled eggs; 2 tomatoes, sliced to bite-size; 2 small red onions, thinly sliced; 2-3 cloves garlic; 1 big pinch cumin; 1 big pinch fennel; 1tsp curry powder; 1 small pinch turmeric; small pinch salt and black pepper to taste

Directions: Heat some oil in a wok/pan. Fry the cumin, fennel to slightly roast them and exude their aroma. Add onions, curry powder and turmeric and and fry with cumin and fennel. When onions turn slightly translucent, add tomatoes and mix well. Add 1 to 1 1/2 cup water and allow mixture to simmer. Add salt and black pepper to taste. When gravy starts to reduce, add in hard-boiled egg. Serve with steamed rice.


This is not-the-kind-of-thick-gravy-curry. Its consistency resembles South Indian Rasam and with tangy flavors borrowed from the tomatoes. Tomatoes are what make many Indian curries so good! The delicious and appetizing taste of this "thin" curry - you should try it and you will know.

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35 comments:

  1. Angie's Recipes4/5/10, 12:20 AM

    Light egg curry sounds even better for the SPRING.

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  2. Dee4/5/10, 12:20 AM

    Oh yum, I love egg curry! Haven't made any in ages. And you do rasam too... :)

    Thanks for the birthday wishes, and for stopping by. Have a great week ahead!

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  3. Mark @ Cafe Campana4/5/10, 1:36 AM

    This looks great. Using chicken eggs it could easily be a backup meal when my pantry runs dry.

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  4. Katie Zeller4/5/10, 1:59 AM

    This looks totally delicious! And we love quail eggs - but only buy them rarely as they are quite expensive here. I wanted some this week (for Easter) but there weren't any.... another reason we don't eat them often. Now that I know the nutrition, we have a 3rd reason...

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  5. MaryMoh4/5/10, 2:00 AM

    Curry....any time for me...mmm. Love all those floating eggs :D

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  6. Christine Ho4/5/10, 3:40 AM

    I've ever tried quail eggs in curry, it should be very delicious. I only cooked them in dessert long time ago.

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  7. Ju (The Little Teochew)4/5/10, 4:54 AM

    I will still eat quails eggs cos it's not everyday I do. ;) I like this type of thin curry too. Give me some prata and my meal is complete!

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  8. Pei-Lin4/5/10, 5:54 AM

    I'd never thought of using quail eggs in curry! Nice of you to share this with us! The dish looks yummy! Good with bowls of rice! Mmm ...

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  9. Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak Lover4/5/10, 6:02 AM

    I never cook curry this way before, sound interesting, might try this soon.

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  10. Little Inbox4/5/10, 6:38 AM

    I'll use chicken egg instead, hehe...

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  11. Trissa4/5/10, 7:02 AM

    I didn't realize there was so much cholesterol in quail eggs! But it's okay - everything in moderation right? Having said that, it would be extremely hard for me to stop at 3 or 4 eggs with this delicious looking dish.

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  12. Trissa4/5/10, 7:03 AM

    I didn't realize there was so much cholesterol in quail eggs! But it's okay - everything in moderation right? Having said that, it would be extremely hard for me to stop at 3 or 4 eggs with this delicious looking dish.

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  13. ann low4/5/10, 7:20 AM

    WOoo...looks like the quail eggs popping out from the curry. Looks delicious.

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  14. Cheah4/5/10, 7:57 AM

    Haven't had egg curry for a long, long time. Thanks for reminding.

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  15. Pam4/5/10, 8:03 AM

    I've never had a dish like this before - it looks great.

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  16. Biren4/5/10, 8:35 AM

    I have not had this for a while because of the cholesterol but it is a delicious dish. Eggs are really good with curry.

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  17. Food For Tots4/5/10, 8:57 AM

    Never try quail egg with curry before. Sounds interesting! The thin curry goes well with some naan too. ;)

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  18. Ravenous Couple4/5/10, 9:06 AM

    we're suckers for quail eggs...looks delicious and easy!

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  19. tinyskillet4/5/10, 10:41 AM

    This looks very interesting with the eggs floating on top! I don't get quail eggs to often because they are very expensive here! The curry sounds wonderful!

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  20. kirbie4/5/10, 10:42 AM

    I haven't tried putting quail eggs in my curry before! I'm going to add some next time.

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  21. Juliana4/5/10, 1:14 PM

    Oh! What a great idea adding hard boiled eggs to curry :-) Sure we have lots of hard boiled eggs from yesterday!

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  22. tigerfish4/5/10, 6:36 PM

    Ju, I tell ya...I can just have that dish without rice, prata, naan, and eat it on its own...cos' it's rather light.

    Trissa, precisely. So better to use chicken eggs. LOL!

    Juliana, good idea!

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  23. Noob Cook4/5/10, 7:06 PM

    How come I hear before that quail eggs have almost no cholesterol? I think this was what my sis was told when she went farm tour. which is correct hehe? As you can guess, I love quail eggs more than normal eggs :P

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  24. Dot4/5/10, 7:13 PM

    thanks for stopping by foodwhirl.com! nice to meet you :)

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  25. Tangled Noodle4/5/10, 7:48 PM

    I never knew that about quail eggs! This dish looks so amazing - I just want a big bowl of rice to go with it. Speaking of which, your cookbook sounds really interesting! 8-)

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  26. tigerfish4/5/10, 7:53 PM

    wiffy, really ? really? I thought I have heard that but after my 1st quail post, seem to hear otherwise leh!? Confusing again! Maybe in that farm, the quail eggs are low cholesterol cos depends on the feed to the quails. Buahahah!

    Tangled Noodle, thanks for visiting.

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  27. Babe_KL4/5/10, 8:30 PM

    i loved quail eggs and *sobs* do you need to remind hahaha but i guess in moderation it shld be ok huh?

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  28. Little Corner of Mine4/5/10, 9:02 PM

    Frankly I never have eggs in curry before, only in sambal. I am out of all ready-mix paste, now if I want to eat curry, I have to make the paste from scratch. *cry lah*

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  29. tigerfish4/5/10, 9:09 PM

    babe_kl, yes lah, in moderation but sometimes in one week, we eat in moderation, in one month(4 wks), it becomes not in moderation. Kekekke...unless, one month eat once! :O

    LCOM, curry powder also don't have? Wah, then I will cry with you...

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  30. Ivy4/5/10, 11:23 PM

    It's been such a long time. Glad to hear from you again. Although quail eggs are hard to get this would be even great with ordinary chicken eggs.

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  31. Joanne4/6/10, 4:52 AM

    I've never had a quail egg OR egg curry. I obviously have been missing out. Big time.

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  32. thebaDderMen4/6/10, 4:55 AM

    We wish to have them all, since they are so petite tiny and firm

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  33. tigerfish4/6/10, 5:07 AM

    Ivy, yes lady. Long time. Glad to be able to connect to you again :)

    Joanne, try some now and you will not be late.

    thebaDderMen, sounds attractive to you huh? ;p

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  34. Shirley @ Kokken694/7/10, 5:01 AM

    Hey, you know what reminds me of? Mee Rebus!

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  35. petite nyonya4/8/10, 7:07 AM

    I love quail's egg. Don't care much abt the cholesterol. Haha!

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