No sweat Vegetable stir fry

Often when I feel like eating healthy I realise I'm not the kind that likes slogging and slogging and slogging for hours before I get to something good.This is my go-to vegetable stir fry.

I start with some oil in the pan, grind 12 garlic cloves , 2 tsp ginger powder and 4 chillis into mulch and add into the still cold oil.
  
I like adding this to cold oil to avoid allll the fumes the adding chilli to hot oil can be avoided. The I add aniseed and cinnamon and follow this by adding cubed mushrooms. I add mushrooms first for they give out water and keep everything from burning without the added hassle of adding more oil. Then goes in the diagonally sliced corn. I like cutting them diagonally for you can cut longer fancier looking pieces and such a huge time saver. :) Add 2 tbsp salt, 1/2 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp chilli powder, 1/2 tsp garma masala, 1/2 tsp coriander powder and anything that you find. That's the magic of my cooking style, very accommodating; much like me. ;D

Then I add the spring onions and beans. Then as usual I micro 2 tomatoes that have been poked through for 2 minutes till its cooked.

Then my love for spinach remains unhindered, and I cut out the leaves after washing it thoroughly.


Simmer and cover it for 15 minutes. Be ready for yummy yummy in your tummy. :)

Left over spinach stem roti

Whenever I make palak dal I have these left over stems that I avoid putting in the dal. But then again I don't like wasting food materials.

So what I usually do with the left over stems is, I add them to the roti dough to which I also add 1 - 1.5 tbsp flaxseed (fibre source).

Then roll them out like rotis as always.

The final rotis will look something like this.



Tastes too yummy if you ask me. :)

My fav Palak Dal recipe

This is my all time go to recipe when I don't want to make a dal and subzi - this is a two-in-one goto dal.

Ingredients:

• moong dal
• 500 gm spinach (uncut)
• 1 dry red chilli
• cumin seeds
• ginger
• garlic
• 2 green chillis
• oil

I have this tiny measure, I take that and immerse the dal in a boat load of water till I get on with other things.
 

Heat 1 tbsp oil in a kadhai. Add 1 tsp. jeera seeds, then add 2 dry red chillis. Once they're fried add only the soaked dal and fry till it sounds tingling against the kadhai.


Add 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp sugar, 2 tsp ginger powder. Add twice the amount of water than the dal. I got a 500gm spinch bundle and cut out spinach leaves from the stems and washed it thoroughly to remove alll the mud.


Simmer and cover. Aft 10 minutes or so, check if dal is done, should have completely lost its structure. Now grind 2 chillis and about 8 cloves of garlic, add and take it off the heat and cover.


The dal should look something like this.


ENJOY!