ALMOND VEGETABLES !!!!!

Its a chinese dish & i first tasted this dish at restura Ocean pearl, Udupi when we went to celebrate our son's 12th reults. I fell in love with dish as i like almonds, chinese cuisine & non spicy dishes very much. It looked very much easy to prepare at home for me. When i was searching for this recipe in google, i saw Master chef Sanjeev kapoor's recipe  & decided to try it. Ofcourse i skipped few veggies & added few veggies what i had in my fridge . & I added black pepper powder instead of white pepper powder , hence the colour :P 

INGREDIENTS:-

Almonds, blanched & peeled - 20
carrots, cut into round - 1 medium
babycorn, cut into round - 4-5
french beans, cut into 1 inch diamond shape - 4-6
green capsicum, cut into 1 inch 1 inch diamonds - 1 medium
butten mushrooms quartered - 6-8
cornflour/corn starch - 2 tblsp
oil - 2 tblsp
ginger , finely chopped - 1/2 inch piece
garlic, finely chopped - 3-4 cloves
onion, roughly chopped - 1 medium
vegetable stock - 2 cups
salt to taste
black/white pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
chilli flakes -1 tsp
fresh coriander leaves, chopped - 1 tblsp fpr garnishing

METHOD:-

1. Mix cornflour in 1/4 cup of water. Heat oil in a wok, add ginger, garlic & stir fry for half a minute.Add chilly flakes & fry for half minute. Add carrot, french beans, babycorn, mushrooms & stir fry for 2 minutes.
2. Add vegetable stock & bring it to a boil. Reduce heat & simmer for a couple of minutes. Add almonds, onion, capsicum, pepper powder, salt & mix well. 
3. Stir in the cornflour mixture & cook on high flame for about 2 minutes or until the sauce thickens, stirring occasionally. 
4. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves & serve hot.

HAPPY COOKING :)))))

Note :-

1. You can add other veggies like brocoli, cauliflower, paneer etc.
2. Instead of chilli flakes, u can use chilly oil too.
3. I skipped adding MSG in this recipe as it is not good for health.

BEANS PALYA !!!!

This is my best friend's mom's recipe. This makes simple beans stir fry awsome ! It goes well with rice/chapathis. For this beans should be tender & that is very important.

INGREDIENTS:-

beans, chopped - 1 cup 
onion, finely chopped - 1
tomato, finely chopped - 1
garlic, finely chopped - 1/2 pod
green chilly, slitted - 1 or 2
long red chilly - 1
curry leaves - 2 strands
mustard seeds - 1/2tsp
oil - 1 tbl sp
salt to taste

METHOD:-

1. Finely chop onion, tomato,garlic, slit green chillies.
2. Heat oil in a non stick pan ,mustard seeds and add chopped garlic and slitted green chillies, long red chillies, curry          leaves n saute till curry leaves changes its colour. 
3.Then add onion and tomato and saute till tomato becomes mushy. 
4. Now add chopped beans (beans should be tender) and very little water (add water only if it is necessory) and salt.
5. Mix well and cook in medium to small flame...keep mixing inbetween as we are adding very less water to it. 
6. Serve hot with rotis/rice & dal.

HAPPY COOKING :)))))))