Egg Puffs
A quick and satisfying egg dish that proves you do not need expensive ingredients to eat well. Boiled eggs in a spiced gravy, or scrambled with onions and curry leaves — simple Kerala cooking at its most practical.
Ingredientsfor 2 servings
- 2 nos Eggs
- 2 - Puffs pastry sheets
- 1 nos Onion small or medium
- 1/4 tsp Ginger paste
- 1/4 tsp Garlic paste
- 1/2 tsp Egg masala
- 1/4 tsp Pepper powder
- Salt, to taste
- Oil
Preparation
Step 1
Boil the eggs.
Step 2
After cooling down, remove the shell and set aside.
Step 3
Set a pan over medium heat and pour in the oil.
Step 4
Add onion and salt. cook well.
Step 5
When it turns light brown, add ginger-garlic paste and Stir everything together thoroughly.
Step 6
Add egg masala, garam masala and pepper powder into this mixture. Set aside.
Step 7
Get out the puff pastry from the refrigerator half an hour before you start preparing the puffs.
Step 8
Cut each egg vertically into two pieces.
Step 9
Spread the masala mix onto the puff pastry and place half an egg on top of it.
Step 10
Rub all the sides of the inner part of the pastry so that it acts as an adhesive.
Step 11
Fold the puff pastry over the egg and seal it.
Step 12
Preheat the oven to 400ªF and bake it for 10 - 15 minutes.
Tip
Hard-boil the eggs first, then make shallow cuts on the surface before adding them to the gravy — this lets the masala flavour penetrate inside.
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