Cuisine: Nagaland
Category: Breakfast
Prep: 10 min
Cook: 12 min
Serves: 2
Difficulty: Easy
🍗 Non-Vegetarian
Eggs wrapped in colocasia or taro leaves and cooked over a fire — the simple Naga preparation of eggs with available foraged leaves.
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 4 large fresh taro/colocasia leaves (or banana leaves)
- 1 green chilli — finely chopped
- 2 spring onions — finely chopped
- 1/4 tsp salt
- A tiny pinch of Naga chilli powder (optional)
Method
- Wash taro leaves. Select large flat leaves.
- Briefly pass over a gas flame for 2 seconds per side to soften without cooking.
- Beat eggs with finely chopped green chilli, spring onion, salt and Naga chilli powder if using.
- Place one leaf on a flat surface. Pour 1/4 of the egg mixture into the centre of the leaf.
- Fold the leaf over the eggs to form a parcel, tucking in the sides.
- Cook the leaf parcel on a flat pan on medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes per side until the egg inside is completely set.
- The leaf will char slightly on the outside — this is correct.
- Open the leaf at the table. The egg inside takes on the subtle earthy flavour of the taro leaf.