Parsis love their eggs. Well, that is an understatement. Their Akuris are made with a dozen eggs into a tall frittata stuffed with onions, coriander and chillies that suffices the entire family at breakfast. Poro is an omelette that is as beautiful as the Parsi women. I'd like to christen it the Jewelled Omelette.
24.03.07 Update -
While browsing in the Crossword bookstore this afternoon, I flipped through Katy Dalal's Jamva Chaloji - A Parsi cuisine cook book and she recommends that you have the Poro with chips, buttered bread and sour limes. This is one dish that Parsis make when the whole family is together for breakfast or also for a dinner when they are too lazy or tired to cook anything elaborate. Poro is also made on days when they must abstain from meat or fish.
Poro
Category - Eggs , breakfast
Time taken - Under 30 minutes
Serves 4
Recipe source - Best ever curry cookbook by Manjula Baljekar
ingredients
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 onion, finely chopped
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1 clove garlic, crushed
1-2 fresh green chillies, finely chopped
a few sprigs coriander, chopped, plus some more for garnish
1 firm tomato, chopped
1 small boiled potato, cubed
1/4 cup boiled green peas or frozen green peas, thawed
1/4 cup sweet corn, cooked / microwaved
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup grated cheese (optional)
salt and ground black pepper
directions
Heat the vegetable oil in a wok or large pan. Fry the next nine ingredients until well blended but the potato and tomato are firm. Season with salt and ground black pepper.
Turn up the heat and pour the beaten eggs. Reduce heat, cover and cook till the bottom layer is golden. *Turn the omelette and let turn the heat to low. Let this cook for some 5 minutes.
*If you have a grill or broiler, you could turn the omelette to the other side, sprinkle cheese and place under a hot broiler until eggs are set and cheese is melted.
Garnish with chopped coriander and serve it for breakfast in true Parsi tradition. Along with a salad, this would serve good for lunch too.
This is my entry for WBB # 9 - Eggstraordinary breakfast at Live to Eat
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Poro - the jewelled Parsi Omelette
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yay. i can make a comment, finally. that poro is good stuff.
Beeeeee, You have a thing for parsi food...see you could post comment...watching the indo- SL match fervently and jumping away each time an appeal is made :D
Hi Nandita, recently read about parsi's love for eggs and now here in ur post too...btw, ur omlette looks like one studded with lots of jewels only :)
Shn
This is really a good looking omelette, Nandita. Love all the vegies in it.
Haha Mishmash, the pic inspired the name...and this one was made ages ago ( kinda stale omelette) and had to submit this one for WBB since we're off eggs since a while..and this was one of my 'egg' posts waiting to be done...
Meeta- Yeah it was delicious and crunchy from the corn
Looks great dearie... yummelicious! I love those corns in there... looks like yellow pearls. :)
hey, and love the new pic too... finally your face is visible cutie..
I love anything to do with Parsis....some of the kindest ppl I know are Parsis...and their cuisine...kya kehna..
Love the new look of your blog, Nandita, and the new pic is nice!
Cheers from NF,
trupti
Sig - thanks and thanks sweets!! Was playing around with the timer shots and clicked some surprisingly good ones..I'm beginning to excel at self photography LOLLL
Trupti - yes you are so right, they are very kind indeed and their egg recipes are a delight...Want to add the link to parsionline.com where they have their top 20 recipes listed. Thanks :)
That omelette is a stunner. Too bad you can't have any!
I was beginning to wonder about the melted cheese...and then read on! :) Cheat a little, Nandita!
Don't you spot the 'after-thought' cheese spread on the slice below?? I do cheat a LOT :)
Ooh, that certainly looks bejeweled and festive! Beautiful picture, Nandita. I am always looking for new egg recipes and this one is a must-try.
That poro really glitters with all those jewels, a lovely recipe Nandita. I love eggs and am really depressed that am not able to whip up something for WBB, next time then
the poro looks so delicious and inviting! Never thought of any parsi food so far!
eggs in any form is my fav..parsi food is yummy from what i remember of my brief exp. in mumbai..thanks for this jewel of a recipe.
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