Here is a very easy-to-prepare egg curry. As the entire curry sauce is made in the blender, I call it a blender curry. If you like, 2–3 medium-sized boiled and diced (a 3/4-inch dice is best) potatoes may be added to the sauce at the same time as the eggs. Serve with rice or any of the three breads in this book. You may also have the curry with French or Italian bread.

　　

Ingredients

serves 4¿6

　　4 tablespoons plain yogurt

　　4 medium tomatoes (about 1 1/4 pounds), chopped

　　3 tablespoons chickpea flour (also sold as gram flour or besan)

　　One 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and chopped

　　3 teaspoons hot curry powder (I like Bolst’s Hot Curry Powder)

　　1 1/4–1 1/2 teaspoons salt

　　2 tablespoons olive or canola oil

　　1/2 teaspoon whole cumin seeds

　　1/2 teaspoon whole mustard seeds

　　1/4 teaspoon whole fennel seeds

　　8–12 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and left whole

　　

Step 1

Pour 1 cup water, the yogurt, tomatoes, chickpea flour, ginger, curry powder, and salt into a blender in the order listed. Blend for at least 2 minutes or until you have a smooth sauce.

　　

Step 2

Put the oil into a wide pan and set over medium-high heat. When hot, put in the cumin and mustard seeds. As soon as the mustard seeds begin to pop, a matter of seconds, add the fennel seeds. Wait about 5 seconds and take the pan off the heat. Pour in 1 cup water and then the curry sauce from the blender. Stir and put the pan back on the heat, turning it to medium. Bring the sauce to a simmer, stirring all the time. Cover, turn heat to very low, and simmer gently for 15 minutes, stirring now and then. Add the hard-boiled eggs and heat them through.

　　Excerpted from At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka by Madhur Jaffrey. Copyright © 2010 by Random House. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.Buy the full book from Amazon.