AdiRuchi

This is an easy and yummy noodle dish. I use all kinds of vegetables to make this healty. For my noodles I used the Hakka noodles you get in the Indian grocery store.

Ingredients:
- 1 cups chopped cabbage
- 1 carrot cut lengthwise
- 1 cup beans cut diagonally
- 1 red bell pepper cut into strips
- 1 cup bean sprouts
- 1 bunch of spring onions cut it diagonally keeping the white and green separate
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp vinegar (adjust to taste)
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tbsp Sriracha Hot Chili or similar variety (adjust to taste)
- 1 pack Hakka noodles
- salt to taste

Method:
1. Cook the noodles as per the instructions in the packet. While cooking the noodles add a little bit of oil. Once it is cooked wash the noodles in cold water and set it aside.
2. In a pan at high heat add the oil. Add onions and sauté it for a minute or two. Now add the carrots, bell pepper and beans and cook them for a minute. Add the cabbage and the white of the spring onions and mix them all together for a couple of minutes.
3. Add the seasoning now. Mix in the cooked noodles and sauté them all well. Do a taste test and add additional seasoning if required. Meanwhile keep mixing the noodles well and if you feel it will stick to the bottom then add a tablespoon of oil to it.
4. Turn off the stove and add the green part of the spring onion and the bean sprouts. You need your sprouts to be crisp so add them at the end. Serve it hot.

When making this dish remember to keep the heat high. The vegetables need to be cooked only for a few minutes so they retain a crunch to it.

This recipe is a total inspiration from chef in you. I recently purchased the Pancake Puffs Cast Iron Set and I wanted to try the vegetable manchurian. I try to use very little oil in my cooking and this pan is a dream come true. You can make koftas with little to no oil.

Ingredients for the vegi balls:
- 1 purple cabbage
- 1 carrot
- 1/2 cup peas
- 1 potato boiled and mashed
- 2 tsp corn starch
- 1 tsp all purpose flour
- 1 green chili minced
- 1 green onion chopped finely
- 1 tsp chili paste like Sambal Oelek (optional)
- salt to taste
Method:
1. Mix all the ingredients together. You should be able to make small balls from them. If not add a little bit flour to this.
2. Now in you pancake puff pan spray some cooking oil and place these vegi balls. You need cook them at a low flame. Other wise the outside gets done but the inside will still be raw. Turn it around every few minutes so as to cook both side. Once fully done remove them and keep them aside.

Ingredients:
- 1 bell pepper chopped finely
- 1 small onion diced finely
- 1 green chili minced
- few spring onions chopped
- 1 inch ginger, peeled and grated
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp chili sauce
- 1 tbsp all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp corn flour
- 2 tsp oil
- sugar and salt to taste

Method:
1. In a pan add oil and heat it up. Add the onion, green onion, ginger and the bell pepper. Fry them in high heat. You need these to be slightly crunchy.
2. Meanwhile in 2 cups of water mix the flour, salt, sugar, soy sauce and chili sauce well. Add it to the cooking vegetables.
3. Boil them for a few minutes and they will form to be a thick gravy.

Putting them together:
Just before serving heat up your gravy. Add the vegetable balls to the gravy and serve them at once. If you add the balls earlier they will become mushy and loose their shape. Serve it with either hot rice or noodles.

This is healthy as you are baking it as supposed to frying it which is how it is usually done. It does taste very good.

Ingredients for the Gobi:
- 1 small cauliflower - broken to florets
- 3 tbsp corn starch
- 1 tsp chili powder
- salt

Ingredients for Sauce:
- 1 small onion chopped finely
- 1 tsp chili sauce (adjust to taste)
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 2 tsp tomato ketchup
- 1 tsp corn starch
- small piece of ginger minced
- 1 green chili finely chopped

Method to make Gobi:

1. Boil 2 cups of water and soak cauliflower in it for 5 minutes. This softens the cauliflower.
2. Form a thick batter with corn starch, salt, chili powder. Remove cauliflower and pat them dry. Mix the cauliflower in the batter. The cauliflower should have a light coating of the mixture.
3. Grease a cookie sheet and lay the cauliflower. They should not touch each other. Bake for 20-30 minutes at a 400(degree) F oven. Mix it once so all sides bake evenly.
You might need to adjust your timing based on your oven. Mine is a old stove so it takes some time to bake the cauliflower. Keep them aside

Method to Gobi Manchurian

1. In a saucepan heat oil and fry onions, and chili till they become soft. Add the chili sauce, ketchup and soy sauce.
2. In about 2 cups of water add corn starch and mix it well. Add it to the saucepan and boil it for 3-5 minutes. The sauce will become thick.
3. Now reduce the heat and add the baked cauliflower. Let it all simmer for 5 minutes before you serve it.

Garnish with spring onions. Tastes good with Chinese Fried Rice.

Ingredients:
- 1 cup cooked rice cooled (I use basmathi rice)
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1 bell peppers chopped
- 2 carrots chopped
- 1 cup snow peas
- 1/2 cup bean sprouts
- 2-3 cups shredded cabbage
- 1 egg (optional)
- 3 tsp soy sauce
- 1-2 tsp chili sauce (adjust this to taste)
- 1 tsp white vinegar
- 2 tsp vegetable oil or seaseme oil (I used vegetable oil)
- salt to taste
- Green onions for garnishing (optional)

Method:

1. Chop the vegetables to about the same size so you can cook them evenly. Keep everything ready before you turn on the stove as the cooking is done really fast.
2. In a large pan or wok add oil and once the oil is heated add the onions. Fry for a minute then add the bell peppers, carrots and salt. The pan should be sizzling hot. Cook them for 3-4 minutes
3. Move the vegetables to one side and add the egg. Start scrambling it and as the pan is really hot it scrambles in about 30 seconds. Mix the egg with the other vegetables. Now add the snow peas, cabbage and cook for 2-3 minutes.
4. Add rice mix it well with the vegetables. Add soy sauce, vinegar and chili sauce. Mix them well.
5. Finely add your bean sprouts - This cooks really fast so you want to add it in the last minute.
6. Finally remove from the heat and garnish with scallions/Green onions

Serve it hot with Gobi Manchurian.

Note: You can add garlic to this recipe. As we are not big garlic eaters I typically skip that step.