Turkish Eggs with Mustard and Curry Leaves
This Turkish Eggs with Mustard and Curry Leaves is a fun Indian twist to the ever so delicious Turkish Eggs. I make this quite often on busy days and pretty much lick the bowl clean. It’s that good. Make sure to have some crusty bread of your choice.
Ingredients
- Thick greek yogurt or hung yogurt – 2 cups
- Cumin seeds - 1 tablespoon
- sea salt - 1 teaspoon (I used La Baleine Essentiel)
- Cheery tomatoes – 7 to 8
- Sugar – 1 teaspoon
- Soft boiled eggs - 4
- Curry leaves – handful
- Black mustard seeds – 1 teaspoon
- Paprika or Kashmiri chili powder – 1 teaspoon
- Oil – 2 tablespoons
for curry leaves infused salt
- 5 dried curry leaves (just layer the clean fresh curry leaves in room temperature for a day or two and it gets dried up)
- 2 tablespoons course salt
Instructions
- For the curry leaves salt, crush the dried curry leaves and then mix it with the course sea salt by slightly crushing it using a mortar and pestle. Store in a clean dry airtight jar.
- In a small pan, dry roast the cumin seeds for couple seconds. Then coarsely crush it using a mortar pestle or coffee grinder.
- Add salt, sugar and grind cumin seeds to the yogurt and mix it around. Place it on the serving bowl.
- In a cast iron pan drizzle little oil and bring it medium heat, Layer the cherry tomatoes and let it sizzle for few minutes. Turn it around occasionally. Sprinkle little salt on the tomatoes as it sizzle and chars.
- Place the charred tomatoes on top of the yogurt. Peel the soft-boiled eggs and place two in each bowls.
- Now place a small pan in medium heat and pour the oil. Once the oil heats up, scatter the mustard seeds and curry leaves. It will scatter (be careful). Switch off the heat and let the spice and herb sizzle in hot oil for few seconds. Finally sprinkle the paprika and give a mix.
- Spoon the warm oil along with mustard seeds, crispy curry leaves on the yogurt. Be generous as you pour the oil all around.
- Finally sprinkle little bit of the curry leaves salt.
- Enjoy it right away with some crusty bread.