Thai stir fried vegetable in orange juice curry sauce

4 Persons:

Ingredients:
Brocolli 1 cup
Mushroom cut into half 1 cup
Green, yellow capsicum 1 cup
Baby corn sliced 6
Peanuts 2 tb sp
Sesame seeds 2 tb sp
Thai green chilli 2
Tofu cubed 100g
Salt to taste
Sesame oil 2 tb sp
Orange juice 1 1/2 cup
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Corn flour 1 tbsp
Black pepper powder 1 tsp

Method:
Heat little oil and roast the sesame seeds and ground nuts, one by one and keep aside.
Add some more oil and fry the tofu cubes till light brown.
Add the green chilli and fry it.
Add all the vegetables,  and fry it for 4-5 minutes.
Mix the orange juice, salt,soya sauce, cornflour and add it to the vegetables and half cook it.
Add the roasted nuts and sesame seeds to it.
Add the black pepper at the end.
Serve hot with steaming rice and chilli sauce.

Chinese fried rice

4 persons

Ingredients:
finely chopped beans, carrot, capsicum, baby corn, Cabbage  2-3 cups
spring onions with green leaves , finely chopped 2-3
ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
Chilli oil 1 -2 tbsp
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
vinegar 1 tsp
salt to taste
Rice 2 cups

Method:
Cook the rice (1cup rice : 2 cups water ) with oil, salt and set aside.
In a pan add 2 tb sp of chilli oil and add the finely chopped spring onions bulbs to it. Saute for 2 minutes.
Add the ginger garlic paste to it.
Add the vegetables and cook it till tender.
Add the soya sauce, vinegar and salt to it.
Add the cooked rice to it and mix well. Cook it for 4-5 minutes.
Garnish with spring onion greens and serve hot.
Note: For chilli oil please refer to chilli garlic noodles in the earlier blog.
For rice, Jasmine rice is preferred.

Chinese Stir fried vegetable

4 persons:

Ingredients:
Sesame oil 1 tb sp
ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
dry red chilli 2-3
cabbage 1 cup
carrot chopped 1 cup
capsicum chopped 1 cup
Beans 1 cup
mushroom 1/2 cup
cauliflower florets or brocolli florets 1/2 cup
Onion  sliced 1
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Tomato sauce 2 tbsp
Garlic chilli sauce 1 tsp
salt to taste
corn starch 1 tsp
pepper powder 1 tsp

Method:
Corn starch mix with 2 - 3 tbsp of water and keep aside.
Freshly coarsely ground the dried red chilli.
Take a big pan. Heat some oil. Add these red chilli powder to it.
Add sliced onions and saute for few minutes.
Add ginger garlic paste to it and saute  for a minute.
Add all the chopped vegetables to it and cook for some time.
Add salt,soya sauce, tomato sauce and chilli sauce to it.
For dry curry donot add water and cook till half done.
For gravy add water to it and when half cooked add corn starch to it and simmer for few minutes.
Garnish with freshly ground black pepper powder, spring onions and serve hot with steaming rice.

Semolina Halwa (Kesari)

4 persons:

Ingredients:
Semolina 1 cup
Sugar 1 1/2 cup
Ghee 2-3 tb sp
Cashew nuts 4-5
Raisins 1 tbsp
Water 2 1/2 Cup
green Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Kesari powder 1/2 tsp

Method:
Heat a pan. Add semolina to it and dry roast it till light brown. Keep aside.
Put the kesari powder in 1 tb sp water and keep it aside.
Take the measured water in the pan and add the sugar to it.  When sugar starts melting also add the roasted semolina, kesari powder mix to it and keep stirring.
Add cardamom powder to it.
Add ghee in between and keep stirring till semi consistency is reached.
In a separate pan add ghee and roast the raisins and cashewnuts and give it to the halwa and mix well.
Keep stirring till the halwa doesnt stick to the pan.