Egg Xacuti Curry

This is a Goan Egg Curry recipe. You can make this with rice, pulao, naan, roti or paratha for dinner parties. You can substitute eggs in this recipe Paneer, Chicken, Fish or prawn. I like this recipe more with capsicum in it tastes better, but it is optional.


Ingredients needed: 
For marination :
8-10 Boiled eggs 
1/4 tsp of Turmeric powder
½ tsp off Kashmiri red chilli powder
Xacuti paste 1 
2 inches ginger 
10 cloves of garlic 
half bunch of coriander leaves 
5 peppercorn 
Xacuti paste 2
1 teaspoon oil 
2 sliced onions
2 green chillies 
1-inch ginger 
5 cloves of garlic 
half grated coconut 
half bunch of coriander leaves stopped 

Xacuti paste 3 

2-inch cinnamon sticks 

3 cardamom pods 

1 tsp aniseeds/Ajwain 

1 tsp black pepper seeds 

1 tsp poppy seed  

1 tbsp coriander seeds 

8 to 10 red chillies dry 

1-star anise 

1 javitri 

1/4th Jaiphal 

½ tsp turmeric powder 

Others 

2 teaspoon oil 

2 sliced onion 

2 green chillies 

¼ Cup water 

5-6 capsicum cut into cubes 

Method 

Marinate Eggs

1.Marination: Marinate the boiled eggs with salt and turmeric powder. 
2.To this add  Xacuti paste 1. 
3.Mix and leave it for half an hour to marinate. 

4.To make Xacuti paste 2, take a pan add oil to it. Add onion, green chilli, garlic and ginger; fry for 3 minutes then add grated coconut and fry for 5 to 7 minutes till the coconut starts becoming brown. Take out the fried stop and keep it aside.  

5.To make Xacuti paste 3, take a pan and dry roast all ingredients of xacuti paste 3. 

Xacuti paste

6.Make a paste with preparations for Xacuti paste 2 and 3 together.  

7.In a pan, heat oil add to it sliced onion, capsicum and chilli. Fry for a minute, then add the marinated eggs and fry on high flame for two minutes. Add the Xacuti masala and fry till the oil starts separating. Then add water let it boil for five minutes. 

Onion and capsicum frying in the pan.

8.Serve hot with Rice, Pulao, Roti, Naan or paratha

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