Must Try Desi Style Egg Benjo Recipe From The Streets Of Indore

Egg Benjo is a quick and easy recipe that brings together the two most iconic breakfast ingredients, eggs and bread. This easy-peasy DIY recipe is a must-try at home and can be whisked up in under half an hour.

But a question keeps popping up in our heads all this while. 

What Is ‘Egg Benjo’ And Where Did It Come From?

Egg Benjo which is a masala omelette sandwich gets its name from ‘Egg Banjo’ which was a popular egg sandwich among the British soldiers during World War II. It consisted of white bread, margarine, fried eggs, and topped up with ketchup.

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Over the years, the ‘Egg Banjo’ became popular across the world including India due to the British having an imperial past. In India, it came to be known as ‘Egg Benjo’ instead and was adjusted according to the palate of the localities of Indore, Madhya Pradesh where it first became popular.

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How To Make Egg Benjo, Detailed Recipe:

• Whisk eggs in a bowl.
• Add onion, tomatoes, green chillies, and coriander
• Add turmeric, Kashmiri red chilli powder, and salt and whisk well.
• Heat one tablespoon of butter in a pan and pour the whisked batter into it to make the omelette. Fry the omelette until it turns golden-brown.
• Cut the omelette into half and keep it aside.
• Now cut pav from the middle into pieces and toast them with butter on the pan.
• Add coriander chutney and jaggery-imli chutney and one half of the pav.
• Keep the omelette in between and close the sandwich with the other half of the pav.
• Enjoy the hot and crispy ‘Egg Benjo' with the dip and beverage of your choice.

Disclaimer: We haven’t used ketchup in the ‘Egg Benjo’ recipe since it an Indian adaptive variant of the British recipe.