Name: Bhikoo’s Poached Eggs
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 2.5 cm/1 in piece fresh ginger; 1 large onion; 1 fresh green chilli; 1 tomato, the plum variety if available; 3 cloves garlic; ½ teaspoon ground turmeric; 4 large eggs; 3 tablespoons groundnut oil; 4 medium-sized firm bananas; salt

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Josceline Dimbleby’s Complete Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1997

About

Bhikoo lives in Delhi and shares the deep interest most Indians have in food and cooking. One day she made me this unusual variation on poached eggs. They are cooked in a delicious spiced banana mixture and the result is a quick and excellent supper dish.

Ingredients

2.5 cm/1 in piece fresh ginger
3 cloves garlic

Method

Peel the ginger and garlic. Cut the chilli open under running water and remove the seeds and stem. Finely chop the ginger, garlic and chilli together. Peel the onion and slice thinly in rings. Cut up the tomato into small cubes.

Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a large frying pan over a low

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