Recipe: Delicious Potatoes and Poached Eggs in a Coconut Curry

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Potatoes and Poached Eggs in a Coconut Curry. Place potatoes in a pot of cold water with a good pinch of salt. Heat half the olive oil in a large fry pan and add onion, cook for a few minutes until soft. Add remaining olive oil, curry powder and cooked potatoes, stir and cook a few minutes.

Add the tomato sauce or passata to the frying pan, and stir.

Add salt and pepper if needed.

To make the croquettes, warm up the mashed potato in a saucepan or microwave then place the mash, curry powder, cumin and turmeric into a large bowl and mix to combine.

You can cook Potatoes and Poached Eggs in a Coconut Curry using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Potatoes and Poached Eggs in a Coconut Curry

You need 4 of Eggs ( I made a big curry) :.
You need 1 of Onion large : chopped.
You need 3 of Potatoes : medium diced into pieces.
Prepare 1 can of Tomatoes : or 3 medium chopped.
You need 2 cups of Squash : worth chopped.
It’s 3 of Chilli : slit lengthwise (HEAT!).
Prepare of Ginger : small piece minced.
You need 3 cloves of Garlic : minced.
You need 2 tbsps of Curry Powder : (or a combo of tumeric, and coriander).
Prepare 1 tbsp of Chilli Powder (or Paprika): (or a little more if you can handle it).
It’s 1 cup of Coconut milk -.
Prepare to taste of Salt.
You need 1 tsp of Mustard seeds -.
It’s 1 tsp of Cumin seeds -.
You need of Oil.

This is an egg dish that my amma used to make and I have not yet seen this same version of the dish anywhere else.

I think the potatoes was amma's own addition to the original coconut curry recipe from Kerala.

For Poached Egg curry: Add the cooked potatoes(if using) into the curry and stir once.

Crack the eggs one at a time into a cup (Do not whisk or beat) , Lower the cup gently near the simmering curry and tilt the eggs into the curry, spacing around the pan so that the eggs do not overlap.

Potatoes and Poached Eggs in a Coconut Curry step by step

Before we begin, make sure you use a WIDE and deep sauce pot. This gives the eggs room to poach well and the eggs wont disintegrate with the curry!.
Heat some oil and add the mustard seeds and cumin seeds. When they start spluttering all over the place, add the minced ginger and garlic, green chillies and onions and saute. Once the onions are soft, add the potatoes and squash and the curry powders. Add a little water and allow it cook for a few minutes.
A few minutes later add the tomatoes, and a few cups of water and the cup of coconut milk. Add the required amount of salt and some curry powder if needed. Stir well and allow it to cook. When the potatoes and squash are cooked through, it will be time for the eggs to go in. Simmer on medium-low heat for 10-15mins and allow the potatoes and squash to cook through.
Test a potato in the pot and if it feels cooked (soft and mushy), if it is, break the eggs one by one into the pot. Do it slow and make sure the eggs dont break. It might sound tricky but it was not that difficult!.
Reduce the heat to low and cover the pot with a lid. Cook for 5mins until the yolk is cooked. I cooked till I got a firm yolk, if you want a runny yolk it should take less than 5mins. Once done, allow the curry to rest for a few minutes before serving.
Serve warm with some rice, roti or bread.

After the mustard seeds popped, add the curry leaves.

Now add the reserved liquid in the kadai.

Once it starts boiling, add the ground coconut mixture Add required amount of salt and add water depending on the consistency you want.

Once the gravy starts boiling, crack the eggs one by one as shown in the picture above into the gravy Hard-cooked eggs and potatoes cooked with whole Spices, onions, and tomatoes and stewed in coconut milk.

This pairs well with almost everything, appams, noolappam /string hopper, Kerala parotta, ney pathiri, roti/chapati, puttu, or with steamed rice, ghee rietc…Here you go my mom's recipe for you to try! …Enjoy!