Mutta Aviyal Recipe
This recipe serves two and is simple and easy. So if you are running out of time and need a typical Kerala dish on the table, this is it.
Time taken - 20 minutes. (or even less if you are a multitasker)
Ingredients -
Eggs - 4
Grated Coconut - 1- 1 1/2 cup
Green chillies - 2 or 3
Garlic - 1 clove
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tea spoon
Turmeric powder - 1 pinch
Coconut oil - 2 or 3 tea spoons
Curry leaves to taste
Salt to taste
Cook 4 eggs in a pressure cooker or any cooking vessel. Let's add a teaspoon full of salt to this because as the science goes, egg white solidifies when it hits salt water. This will seal the egg white even if there is a crack on the egg! Now the boiled eggs are ready . Give a tiny crack on the egg shell and start flaking off the shell. Now cut the egg in the middle both horizontal and vertical.. you have four, almost equal pieces of the egg. Do the same for all eggs.
Now comes the hero, the coconut mix. Take 1-1 1/2 cups of grated coconut. Add green chillies to your taste. Let us add 1/2 or one clove of garlic considering the garlic is almost the size of cashew nut. I usually go for half clove after the disaster of a thick garlic flavoured recipe which my husband ate only because of his love for eggs! We will add half tea spoon of jeera (cumin seeds). Trust me,this guy is the show stopper! Also add a pinch of turmeric powder.So now you have coconut,green chillies, garlic, jeera and a pinch of turmeric powder in your blender or mixer. Give a quick whirl to this mix so that the coconut is not a paste, the other ingredients are just broken. Usually it is best to do on mortar and pestle (ammi in malayalam). Yay.. the mix is ready.
Heat the cut eggs in a pan on a medium to low flame. Add a little water to the eggs so that it does not get dried up. Add the coconut mix to the eggs and salt o taste. Give a fair stirring and add 2-3 table spoons of coconut oil. Top it with curry leaves.
Tadang.. Mutta Aviyal is ready to serve !
