Boiled Eggs with Spinach & Dill

Name: Boiled Eggs with Spinach & Dill
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 13 min
Total time: 15 min
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 green chillies, or to taste; 2 medium tomatoes; 8 eggs; 2 tbsp ghee or vegetable oil; 2 tbsp ghee or vegetable oil; 1 tsp cumin seeds; 2 tsp ginger paste; 1 tsp garlic paste; Chilli powder, to taste; ¼ tsp ground turmeric; 1 tsp ground coriander; 1 tbsp tomato paste; 400 g (14 oz) baby spinach; 2 tbsp Greek yoghurt; Fine sea salt, to taste; 1 tsp dried fenugreek leaves; Handful of fresh dill; Juice of ½ a lemon

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
15 min

Appears in

15-Minute Indian

By Anjula Devi

Published 2025

About

Growing up, I remember whipping up this stress-free dish in no time, so that I didn’t miss Little House on the Prairie, a popular television series about the Ingalls family, who lived on a farm in Plum Creek, Minnesota in the 1870s to 1890s.

Ingredients

2 green chillies, or to taste
2 medium tomatoes
8 eggs
2

Asia
India
Stew
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Fill and boil the kettle.
Slit the green chillies lengthways. Finely chop the tomatoes.
Use most of the kettle water to fill a saucepan and set it over the heat. Add the eggs and boil for 9 minutes.
Meanwhile, to a wok, add the following ingredients in this order: 100ml (3½fl oz/scant ½ cup) hot kettle water, chopped tomatoes, green chillies