Egg Keema Recipe

Updated: July 20, 2022, By Swasthi

Egg Keema is a delicious Indian side dish of chopped hard boiled eggs, spices, onions, tomatoes and herbs. It goes fantastic with any Indian flatbreads like paratha, parotta, naan, roti or even with rice. We also serve this egg keema as a filling in our bread to make sandwiches and rotis to make rolls & wraps. This egg keema is also good over crispy dosas.

egg keema

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Keema also known as qeema is a South Asian dish of minced meat, cooked with spices and onions. Mutton keema a is very popular dish in India & is made in most meat eating homes and Restaurants serving meat. Vegetarian versions like soya keema and vegetable keema are also made.

This egg keema may have been inspired from the mutton keema and is a dish served in Dhabas and road side eateries. It is served with butter toasted pav or with parotta or naan.

Egg keema can be a hit or a miss and depends on your liking. The dhaba style egg keema is made with completely shredded/grated hard boiled eggs and in fact the egg yolks are partially mashed.

But grating and mashing the yolk imparts a strong flavor and may not go well with everyone. My family don’t like it that way and the flavors are too strong for our liking. So I prefer to chop the hard boiled eggs instead of grating them.

This egg keema is made exactly the way it is made in dhabas, minus the loads of oil and grated eggs. If you want to make a copycat of the dhaba egg keema simply grate the eggs and use more oil.

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egg keema recipe

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How to Make Egg Keema (Stepwise Photos)

Make Onion Tomato Masala

1. Boil 4 eggs in a pot. Remove the shell and cut them to small cubes without messing up the yolk much. Set aside. Heat oil and add cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf and cumin. Saute until they begin to crackle.

boil eggs saute spices to make egg keema recipe

2. Fry finely chopped onions until slightly golden. *note: finely chopped onions blend well with the keema.

golden fried onions

3. Fry ginger garlic paste until the raw smell goes off.

4. Add chopped tomatoes and saute until they turn completely mushy.

frying tomatoes till mushy

5. Add turmeric, chili powder and garam masala or meat masala. I suggest adding coriander powder too if the masala has a very sharp taste. Saute until the raw smell of the red chili powder and tomatoes goes off. I used this homemade garam masala.

Add turmeric, chili powder and garam masala

6. This step is optional. Green peas or soaked cashews can be used. Saute until the raw smell goes away.

Green peas or soaked cashews

7. Add very little water, salt, handful of pudina and coriander leaves. You can add kasuri methi instead of pudina. Cook until the water almost evaporates and a thick curry base is left. Check the salt if needed add more.

addition of water mint

Make Egg Keema

8. Do not add eggs to the runny gravy or the yolks begin to dissolve. Add chopped eggs to thick curry.

chopped eggs to the onion tomato gravy for egg keema

9. Stir gently for the masala to coat the egg well. Take care not to stir vigorously else the yolk will begin to turn mushy.

egg keema in a pan

Garnish with mint or coriander. Serve egg keema with chapathi , naan or plain paratha.

Indian style egg kheema recipe

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Egg Keema

5 from 21 votes
Egg keema is a delicious dish of minced/ grated hard boiled eggs cooked in a spicy curry. It is served with butter toasted pav, naan or paratha. It also goes well with bread.
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Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time40 minutes
Servings4
AuthorSwasthi

Ingredients (US cup = 240ml )

  • 4 boiled eggs
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 green cardamoms
  • 2 cloves
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 bay leaf
  • ½ tsp cumin
  • ¾ cup onions finely chopped
  • 1 green chili slit
  • ½ cup tomatoes chopped
  • salt as needed
  • 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
  • ½ tsp red chili powder (adjust)
  • ¾ to 1 tsp meat masala or garam masala
  • ½ tsp garam masala
  • ½ tsp coriander powder
  • ½ cup green peas or ¼ cup cashews (optional)
  • 1 handful mint / pudina coriander leaves


Instructions

  • Hard boil eggs and set aside. When cooled chop them gently to small cubes. Set aside.

How to Make Egg Keema

  • Add cinnamon, cloves, cumin, bay leaf to hot oil.
  • When they begin to sizzle, add onions and fry until they turn golden. Saute ginger garlic paste till the raw smell vanishes. Fry tomatoes together with onions until mushy.
  • Add chili powder and meat masala.
  • Saute until the raw smell goes off. Fry cashews or peas for 2 to 3 minutes.
  • Add very little water, salt, pudina and coriander leaves.
  • Cook until the mixture thickens.
  • Add chopped eggs and mix gently until egg is coated well with masala.


NUTRITION INFO (estimation only)

Nutrition Facts
Egg Keema
Amount Per Serving
Calories 113 Calories from Fat 63
% Daily Value*
Fat 7g11%
Sodium 86mg4%
Potassium 185mg5%
Carbohydrates 10g3%
Fiber 3g13%
Sugar 4g4%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 345IU7%
Vitamin C 14.5mg18%
Calcium 34mg3%
Iron 1.2mg7%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Hi did u change the recipe because earlier cloves, cardamom had to be crushed with ginger garlic in a mortar and pestle.

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Very Easy and nice recipes. It turns out so good always. My family loves it. Thanks.

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Hi we would like if you put in you tube. Another thing your recipe we cannot copy and paste so that while cooking we can watch and cook.

Hi i tried this egg kheema recipe and it turned out good. in ingredients u mention green chillies but in method u didn’t mention when to add so n e way I used my own way and added when we saute the onions and tomatoes. thanks for the recipe

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Hello from London. Well….this is now the 4th receipe of yours I have tried and yet Again it’s a HIT!! Best thing is my little girls loved it. Thanks once again.

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Kinda new recipie. I made egg keema for Dinner everyone complemented.Thanks ๐Ÿ™‚

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The recipe of egg keema, was really wonderful. Everyone in the house loved it. THANKS. โ˜บ?

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You are the best

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TODAY I MADE IT FOR DINNER AND IT WAS SOOOOOO TASTY. EVEN IT WAS LOOKING ALSO YUMMY…. NEVER IMAGINED THAT EGG CAN BE MADE THIS WAY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING SUCH NICE RECIPES WITH US.

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Very tasty recipe

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Just now i tried these ,,, really good

Mam I’m a huge fan of your receipies, seriously you’re amazing ..

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yummy

Egg kheema receipe its very tasty.