East Indian

Kolkata Egg Toast (Diamond Toast)

Name: Kolkata Egg Toast (Diamond Toast)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: East Indian
Ingredients: 4 bread slices; 2 eggs; 1 small, finely chopped onion; 1 finely chopped green chilies; 2 tbsp chopped cilantro; 1/4 tsp black pepper; 1/4 tsp salt; 3 tbsp neutral oil

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Kolkata Egg Toast (Diamond Toast) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

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Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 bread slices
2 eggs
1 small, finely chopped onion
1 finely chopped green chilies
2 tbsp chopped cilantro
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp salt
3 tbsp neutral oil

How to cook it

Whisk the eggs in a shallow bowl with the chopped onion, green chili, cilantro, black pepper, and salt.
Cut each bread slice diagonally into two triangles.
Heat the oil on a griddle or wide pan over medium heat.
Dip each bread triangle into the egg mixture, coating both sides briefly, then lay it straight on the hot griddle.
Fry the dipped bread in batches for about 2 minutes per side, until the egg coating is golden and set.
Serve hot, the diamond shaped pieces stacked together with a cup of tea.

Watch how to cook Kolkata Egg Toast (Diamond Toast)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A East Indian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kolkata Egg Toast (Diamond Toast), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

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- Coconut Chutney
  
  15 min

A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Kolkata Egg Toast (Diamond Toast) carries gluten and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Kolkata Egg Toast (Diamond Toast)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Aloo Posto (Potato in Poppy Seed Paste)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Aloo Posto (Potato in Poppy Seed Paste)
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 400 kcal
Protein: 12 g
Carbs: 30 g
Fat: 26 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 700 mg
Saturated fat: 6 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Kolkata Egg Toast (Diamond Toast) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.