Egg Lababdar | Creamy Egg Curry

Egg Lababdar is a delicious and creamy gravy made with eggs. It is a straightforward and quick dish that one can have for dinner or lunch as the main course.

It is a unique one-pot recipe and is less fussy. As the name suggests, this recipe will make you desire and crave it more. Let me tell you, this dish is a treat for egg lovers out there. On the contrary, it’s a Shahi Moghlai recipe.

Besides, this can fill your protein requirements, too.👍👍

Reasons To Try Egg Lababdar

• It is easy to make even with the list of ingredients.
• Extremely tasty and rich recipe.
• A different egg recipe than the regular anda bhurji.
• It is a protein-packed dish.
• You can eat it with rice and chapati.
• It offers loads of flavours for your palates.
• These seriously are a few of the shahi egg recipes available.

Few Tips to Enhance Taste:

• Try edible food colours to get the desired colour for the gravy.
• Add heavy cream or coconut milk to make the gravy smooth & creamy.
• Replace eggs with paneer, prawns, fish, vegetables, or chicken in the same recipe. However, cooking time for all of them will be different. Even tofu is a healthy substitute.
• In this recipe, add chopped capsicum for more taste.
• To make it a little tangy, add lemon juice or tamarind paste.
• You can add or minus the amount of the chillies as per your taste buds’ preference.
• For more aromas and flavours, use Kasuri methi.
• We can substitute Melon seeds, poppy seeds, peanuts, or sesame seeds with cashews.
• If you like, you can add special commercial spice powders available to your liking.
• You can add grated cheese to this dish in the end.
• Garnish the gravy with grated boiled egg whites or some cheese if you like. You can enjoy this with both rice and roti.

Here’s a list of our other fantastic egg recipes:

• Egg Ghee Roast
• Aloo Egg Curry
• Drumsticks Masala Egg Curry
• Peri-Peri Egg Curry

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Ingredients of Egg Lababdar

• Water - to boil
• Tomato - 2 pcs (big)
• Cashew - 1 tbsp (whole)
• Ginger - 2 pcs (cut)
• Garlic - 5-6 cloves (whole)
• Dry Red Chilies - 4 pcs
• Oil - 5 tbsp
• Bay Leaves - 2 pcs
• Cinnamon - 1 stick
• Star Anise - 1 pc
• Cardamom - 4 pcs
• Clove - 2 pcs
• Black Pepper - 5 pcs (whole)
• Cumin Seeds -1 tsp
• Onion - 250 gm (chopped)
• Coriander Powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
• Red Chili Powder - 1 tsp
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Coriander - 1 tbsp (chopped)
• Water - as needed
• Eggs - 5 pcs (boiled) (cut in half)

Steps for Egg Lababdar

• In a deep vessel, boil water. Add tomato, cashew, ginger, garlic, and red chillies. Blanch them to keep the flavours and colours stored. That is why the gravy has an enticing colour. Choose ripe and red tomatoes. And make sure the tomatoes are not sour. Onions too contribute to the base and also the thickness of the gravy. First, we will blanch tomato, cashew, ginger, garlic, and red chillies in a deep vessel and blanch them.
• Remove the skin from the tomato. Then blend every ingredient to paste in a mixer jar. Cashews will add the required thickness & richness to the gravy. Doing this will give us a creamier gravy.
• Heat oil in a pan. Add bay leaves, cinnamon, star anise, cardamom, clove, black pepper, and cumin seeds, and temper them. These ingredients will not only be providing delicious flavours to the dish but also will make it temptingly aromatic.
• Now add onion and saute it. Add coriander powder, red chili powder, turmeric powder, and salt to it. Add coriander and mix everything well.
• Add the paste to it and stir. Also, add water as needed.
• Now place boiled eggs on it. We need hard-boiled eggs for this. Cover it with a lid and cook for 10-12 minutes. Therefore, the number of eggs we are using is adjustable as per your liking in this recipe.
• Egg Lababdar is ready.

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