Home Style Mutta Kurma (Egg Gravy)

This is one of my mothers recipe which i love:) It tastes awesome with parottas.

Ingredients
5-6 eggs
Oil
1/2 tsp sombu (aniseed)
1/2 tsp whole pepper
1/4 tsp vendayam (fenugreek seeds)
1/2 tsp jeeragam (cumin seeds)
8 dry red chillies
10-12 curry leaves
20 small onions or 1 big red onion chopped
7-8 garlic cloves
2 small or 1 big tomato
1/4 inch ginger chopped
1 tablespoon coriander powder
1 cup grated coconut
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
less than 1/4 tsp garam masala
1 tsp salt
The above ingredients is used to make a ground paste.


You will additionally need 1 big onion chopped, 1 tomato diced, 1/4 tsp sombu and curry leaves


Method:
In a pan, pour oil.
Add sombu, whole pepper, fenugreek seeds, dry red chillies, curry leaves, cumin seeds.
After 1 minute, add onion and garlic and ginger
Then add tomatoes
Sautee it well and add all the spices
Add coconut and sautee

Now let it cool and grind the mixture.

In a large pot, boil water and add the whole eggs
Cook for 10 minutes
Peel the shell and keep them aside
Cut them in halves

In a pot add oil, sombu and curry leaves.
Add onions and sautee
Add the ground mixture
When it boils, add tomatoes
The tomatoes do not have to be cooked, immediately add the eggs
Reduce the heat and cover the pot and cook for 3 minutes.
Garnish with some curry leaves