Alex Arson's Dragon's Nest
Spicy Eggs in Potato and Cheese baskets
Disclaimer Welcome to intuitive cooking. These recipes are to unleash the chaos in you. No measurements, just vibes
Ingredients
- Potatoes
- Cheese
- Eggs
- Any type of chilli
- A binding agent like all purpose flour or besan or cornflour
- Salt
- Any spices you desire
- Something fresh and herby like coriander or mint or basil to go with your spices
- Peeler/Knife
- Shredder/Knife
- Oil
- A deep bellied pan
- Spatula
- Stove
- Music, because the best food is cooked while dancing awkwardly to your favourite song
Instructions
- Heat some oil in the pan. Enough that your baskets can be fully immersed
- While the oil is heating on low medium heat, boil some water and drop in your eggs. We will hard boil them so leave them to cook for about 12 mins.
- In the meantime, peel some potatoes and shred them/chop them finely.
- Repeat the same for your block of cheese or if you've pre shredded cheese, skip this step.
- Chop up your chillies.
- Dampen your binding agent so it forms a clay-like consistency. Mix in thoroughly with the potatoes and chillies, along with salt to taste and spices of your choice till they're thoroughly coated.
- Take a handful of potato-chilli-binder mix and flatten it out on your palms (it'd help to oil them beforehand). Put some cheese in the middle and put another layer of the mix on top to conceal it.
- Shape the mix in your hand into a sort of basket/bowl shape.
- Slowly release them into the hot oil. The oil should be hot enough to bubble around your spicy basket.
- Fry till the potato is golden brown and then bring it out of the oil to a tissue paper lined plate/bowl.
- Once your eggs are cooked, peel and wash them and then deep fry them with some salt and chilli powder in the same oil. * Serve the fried eggs on top of your potato cheese baskets while hot. Garnish with some herbs, chillies and chaat masala esque seasoning.
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