Herbed egg fingers
A very simple and easy egg fry which can serve as a very good starter.
Servings 16 egg quarters
Ingredients
- 4 hard boiled
eggs breadcrumbs as needed- oil to smear on griddle/deep fry(as needed)
For the batter
- ¼ cup corn flour /corn starch (the white one)
- 2 tbsp rice flour
- 1 tsp dried herbs
- ½ tsp pepper powder
- ¼ tsp cumin powder
- ¼ tsp ginger powder
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- 1/8 tsp hing/asafoetida
- a pinch of turmeric powder
- salt as needed
- water as needed to make a paste
For garnishing
- salt as needed
- cayenne pepper as needed
- pepper powder as needed
- coriander leaves as needed
Instructions
- Boil the eggs, peel them and cut them into quarters.
- In a bowl take all the ingredients and mix well to form a semi thick batter. In another vessel have some bread crumbs handy. (Look up my homemade breadcrumbs recipe)
- Dip the quarterred eggs in the batter, and then dredge in the breadcrumbs
- Deep fry or fry on tawa smearing some oil, as I had done till it browns up. Do a taste test and sprinkle salt, pepper or cayenne pepper as needed.Garnish with coriander leaves.
