Breakfast

Egg curry

Nadan mutta curry in roasted spices — the everyday egg plate with appam, puttu, or chapathi.

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Kerala egg curry (mutta curry) simmers boiled eggs in a roasted-coconut or onion-tomato gravy with curry leaves. Homes serve it without coconut milk as often as with it, beside appam, puttu, idiyappam, or chapathi.

Course Breakfast / main

Region Statewide

Typically with Appam, puttu, chapathi, rice

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