Noodles with Stir-Fried Chilli Vegetables

Noodles with Stir-Fried Chilli Vegetables

Hungry!

If you are a mother this is what you hear on a regular basis! And if you are working mother then you get this message on a regular basis!

One pot meals are highly appreciated as they are quick to put together and tasty to eat.  One of the many options is noodles, versatile and you can jack up the nutritive value adding veggies. My girls have somewhat, yes somewhat accepted that if mamma is making noodles they have to put up with the vegetables in it. They get a lot of marks for trying to get me change my mind about the veggies.

Here are the different noodle options I have Thai Noodleswith Spicy Peanut Sauce, Schezwan Noodle Dosa, Lengmans Noodles from Kazakhstan, Instant Gratification~~Maggi Noodles, Hakka Noodles, Noodle Cutlet.

This is my entry to Blogging Marathon where  I am doing Bachelor recipes this week.

This is one recipe again from Good Food Magazine. I liked these as they use very little oil.

Noodles with Stir-Fried Chilli Vegetables

Serves 2  

Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

• 125g noodles
• 1 tbsp tomato puree
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
• ¼ cup + 1/8 cup warm water
• ½ tbsp oil +1/2 tsp
• Small piece ginger, grated
• 150g mixed vegetables (broccoli, baby corn, capsicum, onion)

Method:

• Boil noodles as per packet instructions.
• Drain and cool them in running water.
• Add oil and toss the noodles. Set aside.
• In a bowl mix the tomato puree, soy and chilli sauces with of warm water.
• Heat the oil in a kadhai/wok add the ginger and vegetables. Stir fry for 2 minutes.
• Add the sauces and the noodles and further cook for 2-3 minutes until everything is piping hot.
• Serve hot.

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Vegetable Thupka ~ A Delicious Vegetarian Noodle Soup

Vegetable Thupka ~ A DeliciousVegetarian Noodle Soup

For the recent mega marathon, for the benefit of those who land here for the first time I have participated in 2 marathons. One is the Alphabet marathon the second was the Indian Food Odyssey where we have taken up the challenge of various Indian states and the food there. The NE states gave is a lot of problems not only there are very few documented online but most of the dishes are non vegetarian.

For Sikkim I was to make Momos and Thupka. I made them twice now but not together as my girls went gaga the first time and I had none left to take pictures. The second time they told me they want a Momos feast. Which translates as” nothing else acceptable” they will just eat Momos. By the time I made the mountain of Momos needed plus the regular cooking for the rest of the family members I was in no mood to make Thupka. My excuse was anyway no one will eat it.

Thukpa is a famous noodle soup recipe from the north-east region of India it was something that we enjoyed so I made it again.

This time I made one bowl of  soup on Saturday and took some pictures in the afternoon so in the evening when the hungry hordes descended I had absolutely no reservations of serving this delicious soup.

 

Thanks Valli for sharing this soup on the group id had it not been for you I would be trying to remake a non-veg recipe in veggie one. To make this soup I used my own adaptations. Some ingredients because they are not much appreciated I have left out.

Instant Gratification~~Maggi Noodles

 My girls are big fans of noodles especially the instant kind. The other day as I was bringing back the kid no 2 from her classes in the evening she kept on telling me that she was hungry and she wanted something warm, hinting hugely at the packet of magi noodles I had brought.

 Normally the packet is for the days I am not around and they come back from hungry and my cupboards are bare (which is the happening too often these days). Finally instead of facing the uphill task of convincing her to have something else I made the stuff.

As I went on making it and adding stuff to it I could not help but remember my days in hostel.

The day we had lunch with sweets the mess was closed and my roommate and I made Maggi. Of course we did not add any veggies to it as we never had any in the room and neither of us went doing regular shopping for fruits or vegetables “Kon buy karega?” in fact as we did not want to maintain separate bottles (they were glass bottles then) of oil for cooking and hair oil we used the same coconut oil for cooking.  Eeek! How could we?  But back then we were happy with our solution.

 As I started making Maggi noodles I could help but think how much I have changed now. I want my kids to eat healthy even instant noodles. Here is what I did.

Initially I stared out with 2 blocks of Maggi and 3 cups of water but even after the requisite 2 minutes ticked away to 5 the water level was not coming down. My elder daughter came in and told me more the water should have been just 2 cups and not 3!!

Ingredients:

3 blocks of maggi noodles with the taste maker

Water as needed

½ cup corn kernels, boiled

1 cube cheese

1 tbsp sambhar masala (adjust as per taste)

¼ tsp kolhapuri masala (optional but recommended)

Coriander to garnish

Method:

1.     Bring the water to boil with the tastemakers and the cheese.

2.    Add corn kernels, masala.

3.    Add the noodle blocks cook stirring occasionally.

4.    Once the water evaporates transfer to a bowl , garnish. Kid wanted a butter on hers.

5.    And ENJOY!

Sending this to Shama’s Fast food Noodles Series.

Gayatri's WTML event guest hosted by me.

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Triple Schezwan ~Guest Post

When Nupur asked me to guest post for her I was honoured, pleased & proud that I have finally arrived.

Arrived on the blogging scene!! Yea!!!!

From the time I stated my place as an online  diary for my experiments, where my brother kept on pestering me to post pictures to now that is quite a journey.

From the few tremulous steps where my brother kept on guiding me every step to now (he does check out things for me, answers my queries, why should I search when he can easily answer).I have become more independent I don’t follow his suggestions at all!! Ha-ha!! His ideas are wonderful but I do not have the time to put them in practice immediately will work on them slowly.

Do check out Nupur’s place for my recipe here.

Is that all? No,do check out Nupur’s U K Rasoi where she chronicles her travels as she says “mediocre to food lover”, my current favourites  to name a few are

Scrambled cauliflower stir fry

Paneer masladaar

Brown rice idli

Herb Polenta with chili tomato

Not to say anything about her beautiful pictures.

Thanks Nupur  it was a pleasure.

Noodle Cutlet

F or the recent Blog Hop Vardhini had posted noodle cutlets.

I knew I had to make it and so I did! What lovely cutlets they were.  It was difficult to say who enjoyed them more the kids or their mother.