Egg Kurma (Egg Korma)

• 4–6eggs — boiled
• 2 tbspoil
• ¾ cuponions — medium, finely chopped, 2
• 1green chili — slit
• 1 tspginger garlic paste
• 1¼ cupstomatoes — roughly chopped
• —salt — as needed
• 1 pinchturmeric
• ½–1 tspred chili powder
• 1–1½ tspgaram masala
• 1 tspcoriander powder — ground, optional
• 2 tbspmint leaves (or pudina) — finely chopped
• 1 tbspcoriander leaves — or cilantro

Whole spices

• 1bay leaf — small
• 3cloves
• 1 inchcinnamon piece (or dalchini)
• 2green cardamom
• 1 strandmace — thin
• 1star anise — small
• ½ tspshahi jeera — or jeera / cumin

to grind (or use half cup fresh curd)

• 3 tbspraw coconut — chopped or grated
• 8cashews — or poppy seeds
• ¾ tspfennel seeds