Description
Street breakfast loved across India, forcibly sandwiching spicy Indian omelette containing minced onions, green chilies, cilantro in fluffy round bread (Pav) griddle-baked in butter.
Restaurants serving Omelette Pav (Spiced Omelette in Bread, Street Style)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Egg
- Pav(Bread)
- Onion
- Green chili
- Cilantro
- Turmeric
- Butter
Instructions
- [For
- Servings/Ingredients]
- eggs, 1/
- minced onion,
- minced green chili,
- tbsp chopped cilantro leaves, turmeric/red chili powder/salt to taste,
- tbsp butter,
- Pavs (fluffy bread),
- tbsp green chutney.
- Crack raw eggs into large stainless mug, add minced onions, green chilies, massive cilantro, turmeric, chili powder, salt. Vigorously stir 'clatter-clatter!' with fork until whites/yolks completely mix frothing.
- Drop butter on stall's large black griddle (Tawa), pour mug egg liquid instantly where melted.
- Using spatula, shape egg square (or matching bread shape), baking both sides fragrantly into thin omelette (Masala Omelette).
- In griddle empty space, bake cross-sections of middle-slit fluffy bread (Pav) juicily in butter.
- Briefly smear spicy refreshing green mint chutney (ketchup optional) inside baked bread, fold piping hot omelette sandwiching tight between. Handed over wrapped in newspaper. Egg richness, onion crispiness, green chili stimulation integrate with butter-soaked bread—simple yet perfected ultimate fast food.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Turmeric、Red chili
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Sliced bread or rolls (bake with butter as Pav sub)
Pairing
Hot Masala Chai、Morning air
Trivia
[Hardcore] While 'Bread Omelette' wraps bread in egg, this differs by 'sandwiching omelette in bread (burger style)'. Using 'Pav (Portuguese-transmitted fluffy bread)' is absolute rule in Mumbai. Not gentle mayo-flavored like Japanese 'egg sandwiches', but worker's meal acting as alarm clock where onion heat and spice aroma forcibly wake stomach.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Hold piping hot butter-dripping bread crushing with both hands, open mouth wide biting including protruding spicy omelette, instantly washing down with sweet Chai!
Allergen
Egg, Wheat, Dairy (Butter)