Poro is a Parsi style masala omelette with onions, tomatoes, chillies and coriander, goes best with buttered slices of bread and lemongrass chai.
Parsis love their eggs. And that is the biggest understatement ever.
There’s the Parsi scrambled eggs called Akuri, spicy and somewhat runny, cooked with onions, coriander and chillies. There’s Sali par eedu which is a sort of frittata stuffed with deep fried potato sticks (sali). Then there’s  Poro, one of the most beautiful omelettes you will set your eyes on.
Tired of eating the same old Masala Omelette? Make Poro for a weekend brunch and you wont be disappointed. It is truly an egg lover’s delight. This recipe serves 1-2, but you can easily scale up quantities to make a big Parsi Breakfast.
24.03.07 Update:
While browsing at the bookstore this afternoon, I flipped through Jamva Chaloji – A Parsi cuisine cook book written by Katy Dalal, the doyen of Parsi Cooking. She recommends that you have the Poro with chips, buttered bread and sour limes.
This is one dish that Parsis make when the whole family is together for breakfast or also for a dinner when they are too lazy or tired to cook anything elaborate. Poro is also made on days when they must abstain from meat or fish.
Recipe adapted from Curry Lover’s Cookbook by Manjula Baljekar
[Post updated on 7 Oct, 2017 with new images]
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Poro - the jewelled Parsi Omelette
Ingredients
Method
- Heat the vegetable oil in a pan. Fry the cumin, garlic, green chillies, onion, tomato on a medium heat for 3-4 minutes until onions are translucent.
- Season with half the salt, pepper, turmeric and red chilli powder and fry to combine well.
- Break the eggs in a bowl and whisk well with 1/4 teaspoon salt to combine the yolks and whites.
- Turn the flame to high. Spread out the sauteed vegetable spice mix uniformly around the pan and pour the egg mixture to cover this.
- Cook for 3-4 minutes on a medium high flame. Using a pancake flipper / spatula, flip the omelette and cook the other side for a minute or so.
- Cut into 4 pieces and serve with buttered slices of bread.
yay. i can make a comment, finally. that poro is good stuff.
Beeeeee, You have a thing for parsi food…see you could post comment…watching the indo- SL match fervently and jumping away each time an appeal is made 😀
Hi Nandita, recently read about parsi’s love for eggs and now here in ur post too…btw, ur omlette looks like one studded with lots of jewels only :)Shn
This is really a good looking omelette, Nandita. Love all the vegies in it.
Haha Mishmash, the pic inspired the name…and this one was made ages ago ( kinda stale omelette) and had to submit this one for WBB since we’re off eggs since a while..and this was one of my ‘egg’ posts waiting to be done…Meeta- Yeah it was delicious and crunchy from the corn
Looks great dearie… yummelicious! I love those corns in there… looks like yellow pearls. 🙂
hey, and love the new pic too… finally your face is visible cutie..
I love anything to do with Parsis….some of the kindest ppl I know are Parsis…and their cuisine…kya kehna.. Love the new look of your blog, Nandita, and the new pic is nice!Cheers from NF,trupti
Sig – thanks and thanks sweets!! Was playing around with the timer shots and clicked some surprisingly good ones..I’m beginning to excel at self photography LOLLLTrupti – yes you are so right, they are very kind indeed and their egg recipes are a delight…Want to add the link to parsionline.com where they have their top 20 recipes listed. Thanks 🙂
That omelette is a stunner. Too bad you can’t have any!I was beginning to wonder about the melted cheese…and then read on! 🙂 Cheat a little, Nandita!
Don’t you spot the ‘after-thought’ cheese spread on the slice below?? I do cheat a LOT 🙂
Ooh, that certainly looks bejeweled and festive! Beautiful picture, Nandita. I am always looking for new egg recipes and this one is a must-try.
That poro really glitters with all those jewels, a lovely recipe Nandita. I love eggs and am really depressed that am not able to whip up something for WBB, next time then
the poro looks so delicious and inviting! Never thought of any parsi food so far!
eggs in any form is my fav..parsi food is yummy from what i remember of my brief exp. in mumbai..thanks for this jewel of a recipe.