Food journal: #1 Egg Moilee

Beef fry, Coorgi pork, Chicken ghee roast... the list goes on and on. South Indian food has always been a delicacy! Inspired by all these yummy dishes we tried to make Egg Moilee and boy was it yuuummyy!!

So, here is a gist of how we got about making it.

Ingredients:

Hard boiled eggs
Spices(cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf and pepper corns)
Turmeric powder
Chopped onions
Diced tomatoes
Ginger and garlic paste
Thick coconut milk
Sliced green chilies
Coriander leaves
Ghee
Salt to taste

Method:
1) Cut the eggs into halves. In a skillet, pan sear the eggs in ghee till it gets a golden colour.

2)Remove the eggs and set it aside.

3) In the remaining ghee, saute the spices over low heat for 2 minutes. Add onions and green chillies and continue to saute over medium  heat.

4) Once the onions are cooked, add salt, tomatoes and turmeric powder.

5) When the mixture turns golden brown add coconut milk and let it cook for 30 seconds,


Serving:

Place the eggs in a bowl and pour the curry over the eggs.
Use coriander leaves to garnish.
Best served with sannas or neer dosa.

Bon appetit!!

Notes:
Using a mortar and pestle to bruise the spices would be a great option.
Make sure that the flame is on low while adding the coconut milk and ensure to turn the flame off within  a minutes time after adding the coconut milk or else the heat might cause the coconut milk to separate.

Quick Fix - Burnt Pot

Love cooking but hate the mess? Since we are amateur cooks, we quite often end up with burnt pots. We eventually got tired of scrubbing the pots/ soaking it endlessly for hours.That's when we stumbled upon this quick fix. 

All you need are:

• Burnt pot
• Baking Soda
• Liquid Dishwasher
• Scrub
• Water

Directions:

1. Put 2-3 drops of dishwashing liquid and about 1-2 Tablespoons of Baking Soda into the Burnt pot.
2. Add water upto the Level of burnt stain.
3. Place the pot on the stove and put it on high flame and let it simmer.
4. Once the mixture comes to a boil, take it off the stove and drain the water.
5. Add 1 tbsp of baking soda into the pot and scrub for about 15-20 seconds.
6. Rinse away as usual.

Notice that all the stains from the pot have disappeared! :D

The Icing On The Cake

What's a cake without an icing? It's like candy without sugar. So for all you lazy people out there who don't want to break a sweat, here's a chocolate cake icing recipe.

What you need:
1 stick unsalted butter
1 tin sweetened condensed milk
1 tin evaporated milk
3 tbsp cocoa powder
non-stick saucepan
wooden spatula

And it goes like this:
1) Heat the saucepan over low-medium heat and melt the butter
2) Once the butter is completely melted, pour the rest of the ingredients.
3) Keep on stirring continuously until everything is completely mixed.
4) Eventually, the mixture will start to thicken.
5) Once it begins to thicken, take it off the flame and evenly spread it over the cake.

Ta-da!you're done!

Cooking notes:
* Evaporated milk-5 fl.oz.
* Condensed milk 396g
* Cocoa powder can be substituted with drinking chocolate or hot cocoa powder.
* Make sure that you keep stirring the mixture continuously or you'll end up with clumpy icing.
* The mixture should be sticky and thick enough that when you run the spatula through the mixture, we should be able to see the bottom of the pan.
* When the mixture is thick, pour it over the cake pronto!

The end result: