Nargisi Kofta / Indian Scotch Eggs

 A scotch egg is a hard-boiled egg covered with meat coating rolled in bread crumbs and then deep fried until nicely cooked. It’s a delicious protein packed snack that can easily make at your home kitchen. Normally sausage meat is used for covering the eggs; but here I use minced blended chicken along with some spice powders and bread slices for covering.

Ingredients:

1. Boiled eggs-4 no’s
2. Minced chicken- 200 gm
3. Ginger garlic paste-1 tsp
4. Turmeric powder- ¼ tsp
5. Pepper powder- 1tsp
6. Cumin powder- ¼ tsp
7. Garam masala powder- ¼ tsp
8. Bread slices-2 no’s
9. Salt-to taste
10. Coriander leaves thinly chopped- 1 tbsp
11. Bread crumbs- 1 cup
12. Corn flour- 1 tbsp

Preparation:

• In a blender add minced chicken and blend well to a smooth paste.
• Mix it with ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, pepper powder, cumin powder, garam masala powder, salt and coriander leaves chopped.
• Blend the two bread slices in a blender to a fine powder.
• Mix it with the chicken mix.
• Keep it nearby.
• Dilute corn flour in ¼ cup of water in deep bowl. Keep it nearby.
• Add the bread crumbs in a wide bowl.
• Now grease your hands well with water.
• Divide the chicken mix in to four parts.
• Make bowls out of it.
• Take a bowl and make a thin patty out of it.
• Add a boiled egg in centre and cover the egg completely with the meat patty.
• Now dip it in cornflour mix; then coat it with the bread crumbs; so that the scotch eggs evenly coated.
• Place it on a dry plate and coat all the remaining eggs like this.
• Deep fry it in the hot oil on low flame until nice golden brown in color (if the flame is high; the inner side didn’t cooked well.)
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot

Tips For a Runny Scotch Egg:
If you need boiled egg with runny centre; Boil the eggs for only 4 minutes; After that quickly add the boiled eggs in to cold water. Rest there for 10 minutes and carefully peel the shell.