How To Make Curried Eggs?

[Lyndalu]

I have some asian friends coming over and wanted to surprise them with various curried eggs, mild, vindaloo, korma.

How would i go about this? I'm guessing i put the spices in the water and boil the eggs but how long for as i want the flavours to really saturate the eggs.

Tia

[gingejbee]

I always thought curried eggs were hard boiled eggs served in a curry sauce!

[boxtops]

I've never had the whole egg curried - only taken out the yolk, mashed it, and mixed it with curry paste. A whole egg curried sounds not nice (but then I don't like pickled eggs either).

[boxtops]

This is what I mean http://www.ocado.com/webshop/recipe/curried-eggs/1000400

[woofgang]

curried eggs at school were hard boiled eggs served heated in a curry sauce.

[Lyndalu]

Eggs in curry sauce are a different dish altogether.

I need to know whether i need to cook the eggs in their shells as they're porous or would i have to take them out of the shells to cook them? I don't want them hard and rubbery.

[Old_Geezer]

http://www.food.com/recipe/curried-eggs-482976 ?

[Lyndalu]

Okay maybe i never explained well enough.

Curried eggs, eggs that have been curried so when you crack the shell and bite into one they taste of curry without you having to make sauces, pastes or do anything to it.

[woofgang]

did you think this up or have you seen it somewhere?

[mccfluff]

sounds like tea eggs. the eggs with shell on are simmered in a flavoured tea. if you look that up lynda there are loads of recipes, you just change yr seasoning to suit.

curried eggs are just that, eggs in a curry which is bloody lush

[Lyndalu]

You are an absolute darling mcfluff as tea eggs is exactly what i'm looking for.

Thank you so much and thank the rest of you for your help.

[mccfluff]

no problem - rang a bell i remember my gran making them

[Lyndalu]

:)

[pastafreak]

Lyndalu

"I need to know whether i need to cook the eggs in their shells as they're porous or would i have to take them out of the shells to cook them? I don't want them hard and rubbery."

I'm still trying to figure out just how eggs taken out of the shell could be cooked...

[Lyndalu]

Lol, i was hoping that no one saw that.

What i meant is as a last resort could i just boil them enough to solidify them then take them out and finish cooking them in spiced water.

[pastafreak]

Looking at the basic recipe in Wiki-that's pretty much what you need to do. Ya learn something new every day-lol.

[Lyndalu]

:)

[stewey]

I just printed out a recipe for Chinese tea eggs. Definitely going to try it. Thanks for the idea, folks.

[stewey]

I just made six and will let them marinate overnight in the fridge. Will let you know how they taste tomorrow.

[stewey]

Nothing special: I couldn't really taste any of the spices. Perhaps I didn't simmer them long enough. But they certainly looked attractive when peeled; a kind of marbling affect.