Recipe: Perfect Egg tadka

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A delcious one pot meal ready in minutes that's packed with all the goodness of green Moong beans. Egg tadka is a comforting dish made from protein-rich dal (lentil stew) with scrambled eggs (egg bhurji). This popular Indian main course has smoky flavourful dal (lentils), and egg bhurji with a good amount of green chilies, and coriander leaves. You can have Egg tadka using 18 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Egg tadka

1. You need 1/4 cup of kidney beans.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of whole green lentil.
3. It's 1/4 cup of whole yellow lentil.
4. Prepare 1 of large onion chopped.
5. It's 1/2 tsp of ginger garlic paste.
6. It's 1 of large tomato chopped.
7. It's 1 tsp of whole cumin.
8. It's 1 tsp of coriander powder.
9. It's 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
10. Prepare 1/4 tsp of Red chilli powder as per taste.
11. You need 1 of green chilli.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of dry kasuri methi.
13. Prepare to taste of Salt.
14. You need 4 tbsp of vegetable oil.
15. You need 1 tsp of tadka masala.
16. You need 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
17. It's 2 tbsp of butter.
18. It's 3 of eggs.

Egg Tadka Dhaba Style Egg Tadka Tadka or torka is a popular dhaba delicacy in West Bengal and Odisha. In fact, 'tadka roti' is one of the much-loved meals of this region enjoyed by all age groups. Tadka is basically the modified version of Punjabi dal. Egg Tadka dish is a Punjab speciality and is available widely in the dhabas.

Egg tadka step by step

1. Soak the kidney beans and green lentil overnight (no need to soak the yellow lentil). In a pressure cooker, cook all the lentils with adequate water till the 4th whistles. Now in a large pan heat oil and add cumin and green chilli. Now add the chopped onion and fry them with a pinch of salt. When the onions become tender, add the ginger garlic paste and stir. Then add the turmeric powder, red chilli powder and coriander powder and stir it again. Now add the chopped tomatoes and cover it to cook..
2. Stir fry them very well until oil separates from the masala. Now add the pre-boiled lentils and combine it with the masala. Now add 1 cup water and let it boil for 10 minutes. Now add the tadka masala and salt and mix it well. Now in a pan scramble the eggs with a little salt and add it to the lentils. Combine the eggs and lentils very well. Then add the kasuri methi and lemon juice and cook them covered for 3- 4 minutes..
3. Switch off the flame and add butter. Then serve hot with roti or paratha..

It is very popular lentil dish in Northern India. This is a very easy dish and is served hot with rotis, tandoori rotis, nan or kulchha. Ingredients for Egg tadka Egg Tadka aka Dim Torka is a street-side special in West Bengal. The version without egg is equally good and we just call it Tadka or Torka here in Bengal. Another version that we eat is cooked with chunks of meat and depending on the type of meat used is called Mutton Tadka, Chicken Tadka, Beef Tadka, or simply Mangsher Tadka.