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What is Salna?
Salna is a spicy coconut based gravy dish that is served with Parotta. Its quite popular among south Indian street style foods. Typically served with flat breads / parotta but also can be paired with biryani / pulao / idli dosa!
There are many versions of Salna, can be made veg or non veg style. Plain salna which is also known as Empty Salna is a veg version where the base gravy is made with spices and some lentils added for thickeners. This Egg Salna recipe is also made with one such base gravy combined with boiled eggs.
பரோட்டா, தோசை, இட்லி, சப்பாத்தி, சூடான சாதத்தில் ஊற்றி சாப்பிட முட்டை சால்னா அருமையாக இருக்கும்!
Parotta
This gravy can be be with either hard boiled eggs or lightly scrambled beaten eggs which is added directly to the simmering gravy. Either ways its tastes awesome with parotta!
Chicken Salna Recipe – Tamil Nadu Parotta Salna
Mushroom Salna
Side Gravy for Biryani – Biryani Side dish
Empty Salna – Plain Salna – Rottu Kadai Bucket Salna
Egg Salna Recipe - Muttai Salna - முட்டை சால்னா
Ingredients
For masala paste
- 3 tsp Oil
- 2 tsp Bengal gram / Channa dal / Kadala paruppu
- 2 long Dry Red chili
- 1 tsp Black peppercorns
- 1 each Cardamom
- 4 each Cloves
- 1 small Cinnamon stick 1/2 inch size
- 1 tsp Fennel seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- 1/2 cup Onion
- 1/4 cup Tomato
- 1 each Green chili
- 1/4 cup Fresh coconut pieces
- 1/4 cup Water to blend
For Gravy
- 5 large Hard Boiled eggs
- 1/4 cup Oil
- 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
- 5 each Curry leaves
- 1 cup Onion finely chopped
- 1/2 cup Tomato
- 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp Red Chili powder hot variety
- 2 tsp Coriander powder
- 1.5 tsp Salt or to taste
- 1 cup Water
- 1/4 cup Coriander leaves for garnish
- 5 each Curry leaves for garnish
- 2 tsp Sesame Oil or Coconut oil optional (for gravy)
Instructions
Hard Boiled Eggs
- Boil 5 large eggs in enough water for 10 minutes over very high flame.
- Switch off and let it sit cover in that hot water for 10 minutes.
- Rinse them in cold water, crack and peel off the shell.
- Set this aside.
To make the masala paste
- Heat little oil in a kadai / pan and fry the bengal gram until golden.
- To this, add dry red chillies, black peppercorn, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, fennel seeds, cumin seeds, green chili and onions and tomato.
- Fry until the onion and tomato turn soft and mushy.
- Add chopped coconut pieces and fry along for few minutes.
- Remove this mixture from pan to a blender and let it cool down a bit.
- Blend this with little water to make a fine masala paste.
- Keep this aside.
To make the gravy
- Heat oil in the kadai / pan and temper with little cumin seeds and curry leaves.
- Saute finely chopped onions until soft and golden.
- Add ginger garlic paste and fry until the raw smell goes.
- Followed by tomatoes and cook until mushy.
- Add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder and salt. Fry well the onion tomato mixture until the oil separates.
- Now add the ground masala paste, add some water and cook for few minutes.
- Make small slits in the boiled eggs and add that to the gravy.
- Simmer for few minutes or until desired consistency and garnish with coriander and curry leaves.
- Depending upon your preference switch off at the right desired consistency.
- Light thin gravy suits for parotta / idli / dosa / poori and semi thick suits for biryani / pulao!
Chicken Stuffed Paratha – Ceylon Parotta
Vegetarian Chalna
CHICKEN SALNA RECIPE – Side dish for Parotta, Biryani, Idli, Kal Dosai & Idiyappam
Hard Boiled Eggs
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Boil 5 large eggs in enough water for 10 minutes over very high flame.
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Switch off and let it sit cover in that hot water for 10 minutes.
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Rinse them in cold water, crack and peel off the shell.
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Set this aside.
To make the masala paste
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Heat little oil in a kadai / pan and fry the bengal gram until golden.
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To this, add dry red chilies, black peppercorn, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, fennel seeds, cumin seeds, green chili and onions and tomato.
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Fry until the onion and tomato turn soft and mushy.
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Add chopped coconut pieces and fry along for few minutes.
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Remove this mixture from pan to a blender and let it cool down a bit.
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Blend this with little water to make a fine masala paste.
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Keep this aside.
To make the gravy
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Heat oil in the kadai / pan and temper with little cumin seeds and curry leaves.
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Saute finely chopped onions until soft and golden.
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Add ginger garlic paste and fry until the raw smell goes.
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Followed by tomatoes and cook until mushy.
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Add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder and salt. Fry well the onion tomato mixture until the oil separates.
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Now add the ground masala paste, add some water and cook for few minutes.
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Make small slits in the boiled eggs and add that to the gravy.
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Simmer for few minutes or until desired consistency and garnish with coriander and curry leaves.
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Depending upon your preference switch off at the right desired consistency.
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Light thin gravy suits for parotta / idli / dosa / poori and semi thick suits for biryani / pulao!
12 Comments
Hi Mullai Mam, tried this recipe came out well. Thank you for this wonderful post.
Thanks dear Sarah!
Hi Mullai,
I love your site and all your beautiful recipes. Thanks for helping me to cook good food through ur site. I hope you will add in more recipes.
hi i tried this recipe and it tasted awesome.Hats off to you. You are doing yemom service. If a novice cook like me can prepare an excellant egg salna, its only because of your exact measurements and your description. As far as possible, add exact measurements even with things like Keerai/mint/coriander, which many sites mention just “bunch”. In our city coriander leaves are sold in very big bunch. Which will weigh mininum of kilo. How can i imagine a small bunch of coriander? In Hyderabad I have seen tiny bunches of Coriander which will measure only a tea spoon after cleaning and chooping it. Hope you understand.
Regards
Aswhin.
Thanks Mullai..
hi mullai,
wish u a very happy new year.shouid we need to grind
coconut pieces, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, black pepper and onions seperately?these things we need to saute and grind?
Dhivya, they all go together while grinding. Ofcourse it will have the raw smell and that will go away once you saute. Hope this helps. Thanks.
Mullai if we grind onions that r raw wont it be pungent?
No, it won't, actually you have fry the ground onion paste along with all masala for few minutes… say about 3 to 4 minutes, this would cook the masala to make it pungent free.
hey mullai tried out this recipe….turned out great….easy to make and its very tasty…i like all ur recipes….waiting for more to come….thanks for posting such a easy recipe which is tasty…
Hi friend, thank you.
I luv egg…Tried this recipe…Awesome!!!!!!!!!Thanks Mullai…I used to eat 3 or 4 eggs a day as I was too skinny. Then I stopped it as it is not good for health. This egg salna made me to eat eggs again…Hmmm…Would like to get more egg recipes