Egg, Cheese and Toast, Mumbai Style
'Mumbai is a city of great egg dishes hard-boiled curries and frankies, wrestlers omelets and masala scrambles. Eggs Kejriwal is just one dish in its vast canon. This egg-and-cheese toast isnt new, but its newly internationally famous, like a stage actor cast in a superhero film. I found my way to it last year at Paowalla in Manhattan an egg with a warm, tender yolk under a fat blanket of melted cheese, smudged with bright green chutney. Jet-lagged, on deadline, I was restored by it again at Dishoom in London, a chain inspired by Mumbais old Irani cafes, where they grill the cheese until its golden and put two runny eggs on top.
By then, I was a believer in this trinity of toast, egg and cheese, blessed with the raw heat of green chiles. It was a reliable fix for hangovers, solid enough to pass for breakfast but compact enough to snack on between meals. I made it at home after a long, inadequate restaurant dinner, kneeling in front of my broiler to keep an eye on the bubbling Cheddar, wondering where this stodgy little dreamboat had been all my life.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/magazine/egg-cheese-and-toast-mumbai-style.html?
Recipe: Eggs Kejriwal https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018717-eggs-kejriwal
1 tablespoon softened butter
2 thick slices Pullman bread
2 teaspoons mustard
4 ounces Cheddar cheese, grated
1 serrano chile, finely sliced
2 tablespoons cilantro leaves, washed and chopped
1 tablespoon minced red onion
2 eggs
Salt and pepper, to taste
Ketchup, optional
How BORING I am! My daughter's raising chickens (and goats!) and she gave me eggs yesterday. I had plain old scrambled eggs for breakfast today, and because I was rushing (my brother's visiting!,) I didn't do my usual garlic powder and shredded cheese with them!