Anda bhurji (Indian spiced scrambled eggs)
16 min · 25 g protein · 263 cals / serving
India's street-stall scramble: eggs stirred into a quick masala of onion, tomato, green chili, ginger and garlic with turmeric and garam masala, until they break into small, spicy, buttery curds. Lots of cilantro at the end.
Ingredients
- 1 tsp butter, or oil
- 2 tbsp onion, finely chopped
- 1–2 green chili pepper, finely chopped
- 1 tsp ginger, grated
- 1 small clove garlic, grated
- 1/2 Roma tomato, finely chopped
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 tsp chili powder, Kashmiri if you have it
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 5 large eggs
- 2/3 cup liquid egg white, or the whites of 5 eggs
- 2 tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped
To serve
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Steps
- Melt the butter in a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and chili and cook 2 minutes, until the onion softens, then the ginger and garlic for 30 seconds.
- Add the tomato, turmeric, chili powder, garam masala and salt and cook 2–3 minutes, mashing the tomato with the spoon, until it collapses into a thick masala.
- Beat the eggs and whites together, pour into the pan and leave for 20 seconds, then stir, scraping the bottom, until the eggs break into small, soft curds, 2–3 minutes.
- Stir in most of the cilantro and the lemon juice, and serve with the rest of the cilantro on top.
Good to know
What to eat it with?
Buttered pav or toast and a cup of chai is the street-stall way; for a keto plate, sliced cucumber and tomato with a squeeze of lemon.
All whole eggs?
Use 6 whole eggs and leave out the whites for a richer, yellower bhurji, at about 49 instead of 63.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 108
- Protein
- (39%)
- 10 g
- Fat
- (53%)
- 6 g
- Carbohydrates
- (8%)
- 2 g
- of which sugar
- 1 g
- Fiber
- <1 g
- Sodium
- 368 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 526 kcal goes into the pot and 521 g of ingredients comes out as about 486 g of food: 108 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.