Easy Vegetable Soft Noodles (Veg Hakka Noodles)

Vegetable Soft Noodles

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cooking Time: 20 mins

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

2 packs of Noodles (Chings)

2 tbsp oil

1 large bowl of shredded vegetables (cabbage, capsicum, carrots and beans)

1 onion thinly sliced

Spring onion greens cut into 1”

1 tsp Pepper powder

½ tsp Ajinomotto (optional)

2-3 tsp Dark Soya sauce

1 tsp vinegar in chilli

2 tsp green chilli sauce (optional)

Salt to taste

Method:

1. Boil water in a pot and add some salt and 2 tsp oil. After the water starts boiling add the noodles cook for 3-4 mins. Remove when they are 80% done. (DO NOT COOK THEM COMPLETELY).
2. Strain the noodles and spread them on a plate and apply some oil so that they do not stick.
3. Heat a wok; add oil. After the oil is hot add onions and stir for 30 secs. Add all the vegetables and stir for 1 min.
4. Add salt, pepper, soya sauce, ajinomotto, chilli sauce and vinegar and give a quick stir.
5. Add the noodles and mix gently without breaking the noodles. Try and toss the noodles.
6. Garnish with spring onion greens and serve hot.

Co-zy Tips:

Do not let the noodles rest for long.

Healthy n Easy Soya Manchurian

Healthy n Easy Soya Manchurian

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 10 mins

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

100 gms Soya Chunks (Mealmaker)

1 tbsp oil

2 tsp dark soya sauce

1 tbsp corn flour

1 tsp pepper powder

1 tsp vinegar

1 tbsp tomato ketchup

1 tsp chilli sauce

1 capsicum cut in cubes

8-10 pods of garlic chopped

2 green chillies chopped

1/2 “ginger chopped

Spring onions chopped

Spring onion greens chopped for garnish

½ tsp sugar

2 tbsp water

Salt to taste

Method:

1. Boil water in a pot with 1 tbsp milk and add soya chunks when water starts boiling. Cook it for 5-8 mins. Remove and drain the water.
2. Mix corn flour to the chunks.
3. Heat oil in a wok or pan and add the soya chunks and sauté for 2-3 mins and take it out.
4. In the same pan add onions, ginger, garlic and green chillies and sauté for 30 secs. Then add capsicum and stir for another 30 secs.
5. Now add all the wet ingredients (soya sauce, tomato ketchup, chilli sauce and vinegar) and sauté for 30 secs and then add salt, pepper and sugar and give a quick stir and add water.
6. After the mixture boils add the sautéed soya chunks and coat them well and cook for 1-2 mins.
7. Remove and garnish with spring onion greens and serve hot as a snack or with fried rice or soft noodles.

Co-zy Tips:

If you want the soya to be crisp you may even deep fry them, but this way its more healthy and quick.

Vegetables in Manchurian Sauce

Vegetables in Manchurian Sauce

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cooking Time: 10 mins

Servings:  4

Ingredients:

Assorted Vegetables cut in 1” pcs and blanched (Cabbage, Carrots, Capsicum, Cauliflower, Broccoli, French Beans, Baby corn, etc)

1 onion diced into 1”

8-10 cloves of garlic finely chopped

2 green chillis deseeded and finely chopped

1 tbsp soya sauce

2 tsp tomato sauce

2 tsp green chilli sauce

2 tsp chilli vinegar

1 tbsp corn starch

Spring onion greens chopped for garnish

½ tsp pepper

¼ tsp ajinomotto (optional)

2 cups of water

Salt to taste

Method:

1. Heat oil in a wok or wide pan add chopped garlic and sauté for 30 seconds and then add onions and green chillis and stir for another 30 seconds.
2. Add all the blanched vegetables and stir for 1-2 mins.
3. Add soya sauce, vinegar, tomato sauce, chilli sauce, salt, pepper and ajinomotto and stir for a minute.
4. Add 1 cup of water and bring it to boil.
5. Dissolve corn starch in 1 cup of water and add to the boiling vegetables and let the sauce thicken.
6. Garnish with spring onion and serve with fried rice or soft noodles.

Co-zy Tips:

1. Blanching: Boil water in a pot and allow the water to boil then add the vegetables and cover for not more 1 min else the vegetables will lose the crunch.
2. You can add the vegetables without blanching as well.
3. Be careful while adding the salt; as soya sauce already has some salt in it.