Masala Pasta with Veggies

Ingredients
pasta cooked - 250 gm
onion - 1
garlic flakes - 7 to 8
few curry leaves
mix vegetables - corn, carrot, french beans, red, yellow and green pepper
red chilli powder as per taste
garam masala - 1/2 tsp
cumin seed - 1 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
puree of two tomatoes
tomato sauce - 2 tbl.sp
few cilantro leaves for garnishing
salt as per taste

Method
Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seed. When it starts to splutter add garlic flakes crushed.
Saute for few seconds and then add onions and curry leaves and cook till onions become translucent.
Add tomato puree and cook till raw smell goes then add veggies and cook for two minutes till tender then add cooked pasta and tomato sauce and mix well. Garnish with cilantro leaves and serve.

Chinese Bhel

Ingredients
Hakka noodles
thinly sliced green pepper - 1
thinly sliced cabbage - 100 gm
5 to 6 bulbs of spring onion chopped
schezwan sauce - 2 tbl.sp
tomato ketchup - 2 tbl.sp


Method
First boil hakka noodles and then wash in cold water. Pat it dry and then put one tsp of corn flour to remove excess moisture. Keep it aside.

Heat one tbl.sp of oil and add vegetables and schezwan sauce and tomato ketchup. Mix well. Add noodles to it, Again mix it and serve.

Vegetable Kadahi

Vegetables In Coconut Milk

Mix Vegetable Chalna

Navrathna Kurma

Ingredients

Mixed deiced vegetables

(potatoes, cauliflower, carrot,, beans, peas) -    2 cups

Onions – 2

Ginger, garlic paste – 1 ½ tsp

Tomatoes – 3

Paneer or cottage cheese – 100 gms

Turmeric powder – ½  tsp

Coriander powder – 2 tsp

Garam masala – 1 ½ tsp

Milk – 1 cup

Chilli  powder – 1 ½ tsp

Cream  – 2 tbl.sp

Ghee or butter – 3 tbl.sp

Salt as per taste

Raisins, cashews, pine apple pieces, tutti fruity  - ½  cup  (optional)

Garam  masala is a mixed powdered form of cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and black peeper)

Method

Cut paneer into small pieces and deep fry it. Remove from fire and keep aside. Blanch tomatoes by first putting in hot boiling water and then immediately adding to cold water. Remove the skin, Mash these tomatoes and keep aside. Boil vegetables given and keep aside.

Grate onion, heat ghee in a deep frying pan, then add these onions, then ginger garlic paste and cook on a low flame till the ghee separates from it. Then add mashed tomatoes’, coriander powder, turmeric powder, chilli  powder, garam  masla and salt. Then add boiled vegetables, let it cook till the gravy thickens. Then add milk and cream. Cook for few minutes, and then add paneer and dry fruits to it before removing from fire. Fry cashew nuts in ghee and add to it. Decorate it with coriander leaves.