Zero Oil Egg Curry...

A lot of people in office are on a 'dieting' spree to become trimmer. So a lot of 'harrumph' happens when we share lunch and I get questions about 'how many teaspoons of oil' is in whatever I cook. Since a litre of cooking oil lasts me for months (even after using oil in some muffins), this irks me no end.

So one fine morning I decided to cook up some egg curry without any damned oil!


I 'd already hard boiled a few eggs the night earlier... So, in the morning I took out a couple of tomatoes, a little haldi, dhania, and jeera powder, a few cloves of garlic, and little nub of ginger. 

I puréed all of this together into a neat little paste before I did anything else...

I slapped the purée into my trusty non-stick pan...

... and simmered till I'd got a nice little 'reduction' happening that had imbibed all the flavours....

I also had come palak (spinach) that I washed and chopped up (almost as an after thought).

I put the palak into the reduction and added a wee bit of salt to get the palak to sweat out a bit...

And then I added the boiled eggs and I had my curry ready :)

Lauki ka sabzi... (attempt 01)

Now this one takes 20min to make and 10min to chop. I got home tired yesterday and had this lauki (bottle gourd) lounging in the. I quick chop chop later I threw in whole jeera and chopped tomatoes and few cloves of garlic in the pan with some oil.


I added the haldi and the lauki then played with the cat... And... the curry was done. :D