Egg Bhurji: A Recipe You’ll Love to Try

Egg bhurji is a delicious Indian iteration of scrambled eggs. It’s also called Anda bhurji in some areas of the country. You should cook this tasty food with tomatoes, green chillies, onions, and spices. You can add different vegetables like bell peppers, mushrooms, peas, and carrots to create a tasty flavour. This recipe is also called Indian scrambled egg curry. 

This food is a popular breakfast option in India. Read on to learn all about this fantastic dish in detail.

Egg Bhurji Recipe

Learn the egg bhurji recipe through the following method and use these ingredients.

Ingredients

• Eggs: 3 to 4
• Cooking oil: 2 tablespoon
• Turmeric powder: 1/8 teaspoon
• Salt: ¼ teaspoon
• Cumin seeds: ½ teaspoon
• Onion: ½ to ¾ cup
• Green chilli: 1
• Garlic ginger paste: ¾ to 1 teaspoon
• Garam masala: ¾ to 1 teaspoon
• Red chilli powder: ½ to ¾ teaspoon
• Curry leaves 1 spring/coriander leaves (2 tablespoon)/mint leaves (8) (optional)
• Chopped tomato: ¼ cup (optional)
• Capsicum: ¼ cup

Method

1. Take a bowl and break 2-3 eggs in it. Then add 1/8 teaspoon of turmeric powder. Also, include ¼ teaspoon of salt. You can adjust the quantity of salt as per your need. 
2. Blend the eggs well, and you can add a few tablespoons of milk if you like. One notable step that is optional here is that you can directly put the eggs in the frying pan without blending them. But you will miss the fluffy texture of the scrambled eggs.  
3. After that, heat your frying pan with 2 tablespoons of oil. Then, add cumin seeds to the oil. Add some curry leaves when the cumin seeds will start to splutter. Let the leaves turn crispy. But adding curry leaves is optional, too. 
4. Following the previous step, add some chopped onion and green chilli. 
5. Blanch the onions until they become golden. Then, add garlic ginger paste to the cooked onions. Cook these ingredients again. It will remove the raw smell of ginger and garlic. 
6. Add a finely chopped tomato or capsicum. You can even add both of these veggies. But you can skip this step if you don’t like capsicum or tomato.
7. Cook the veggies with onions and let them mix well. Then add some red chilli powder and garam masala – a mixture of different spices. Fry the ingredients until the garam masala smells good.
8. Now, pour the eggs into the frying pan. 
9. Cook the eggs well. Add more chilli powder and garam masala if required. Fry the ingredients and continue cooking until the smell of chilli powder has vanished. But be careful about overcooking. It will hamper the softness of eggs.
10. Check the taste and add more salt to it if needed. Garnish it with coriander leaves. Furthermore, squeeze some lemon juice over it. 

Now it’s completed and ready to serve!

Make variations to enhance the taste

• You can use pav bhaji masala instead of garam masala. It adds an awesome flavour to  egg bhurji. In Mumbai, street-side bhurji is cooked with pav bhaji masala.
• To make the bhurji tastier, you can add some milk to it. The milk also gives a light and fluffy texture to eggs. 
• Also, you can use coriander leaves to flavour up your bhurji. 
• Both green and red chilli can be used. If you use pav bhaji masala, then skip the red chilli powder.
• Adding lemon juice or tomatoes gives a twist to the bhurji.

Serving Ideas 

Serve the egg bhurji with any meal, such as roti, paratha, chapati, or pav bhaji. You can even serve it with lentil soup or steamed rice. 

Nutritional Content in Egg Bhurji

The nutrition facts per 100 gm of egg bhurji are as follows:

Conclusion

Now you have learned all things about egg bhurji, including the nutritional factors. So, start your cooking and serve the bhurji and see how it vanishes in minutes!