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Broccoli Mushroom Noodles With Sriracha Sauce

Broccoli mushroom noodles with scallion or onion green and sriracha sauce.
An easy to make and tasty noodles recipe. Mushroom, broccoli, scallions and sriracha sauce made this noodles superbly delicious.

I made it for my daughter and she doesn’t like much vegetables in noodles. So I have used her favourite broccoli, mushrooms and scallions.
Earlier shared Ginger noodles.
This time made the noodles with scallion or onion greens.

Sending this post to 230 #Foodiemonday bloghop theme is Chinese new year suggested by Preethi Prasad who blog at Preethi Cuisine. Preethi is a very dear friend and a talented blogger. She is the oldest member of this bloghop group. We introduced each other in a food group. And Preethi introduced me to this group. Always love her blog for different types of authentic and delicious recipes. Recently bookmarked her mixed lentil masala vada and date almond coconut rolls to try.
Do visit her space, I am sure you will love her vast collection of recipes.

I was searching to know about Chinese new year food. And found this interesting article with all the information.

Certain dishes are eaten during the Chinese New Year for their symbolic meaning. Lucky food is served during the 16-day festival season, especially New Year’s Eve, which is believed to bring good luck for the coming year.
There are 7 lucky foods to eat during Chinese new year.

1. Fish — an Increase in Prosperity

2. Chinese Dumplings — Wealth

3. Spring Rolls — Wealth

4. Glutinous Rice Cake — a Higher Income or Position

5. Sweet Rice Balls — Family Togetherness

6. Longevity Noodles — Happiness and Longevity

7. Good Fortune Fruit — Fullness and Wealth

To read more about Chinese new year dishes and the symbolism behind them click here.

So noodles symbolize long life. Now coming to the recipe.
Boil the noodles, blanch the broccoli, stir fry onion, garlic, green chilli, mushrooms and toss with scallions, broccoli, salt, noodles and some sauce. Easy isn’t it 🙂
You can use red, yellow bell peppers, capsicum, cabbage, carrots, sweet corn or any vegetables of your choice.
Eggs and shredded chicken also goes well with this noodles.

Recipe

Noodles – 400 gram

Mushroom – 200 gram

Broccoli – 1

Onion – 2, sliced

Scallions – 10 – 12, chopped

Garlic – 5 – 6 cloves, minced

Green chilli – 2 – 3 or to taste, finely chopped

Salt to taste

Black pepper powder – 1 teaspoon

Sriracha sauce – 3 tablespoon

Vinegar – 3 tablespoon

Soya sauce – 1 tablespoon

Tomato sauce or ketchup – 2 tablespoon

Oil – 3 tablespoon + 2 teaspoon

Method

1. Boil the noodles as directed on the pack. Drain the water. Rinse and mix 2 teaspoon oil and keep aside.

2. Rinse and cut the broccoli into small florets.

3. Clean, rinse and chop the mushrooms. I have used small mushrooms so I made them half.

4. Boil water with 1/4 teaspoon salt. When the water starts to rolling boil add the broccoli florets. Boil for 2 minutes. Take out the florets with a slotted spoon and keep aside.

5. In a bowl mix soya sauce, tomato sauce or ketchup, sriracha sauce, vinegar and black pepper powder.

6. Heat oil in a wok. Add sliced onion, minced garlic and chopped green chilli. Fry till onion becomes light brown.

7. Now add the mushrooms and mix. Mushrooms will release water. Saute till dried up.

8. Add broccoli florets and chopped scallions or onion greens. Saute for 2 minute. See notes for more vegetable options.

9. Add the noodles, tomato, soya, sriracha sauce, black pepper powder and vinegar mixture. Add salt carefully. Mix well.

10. Toss everything well for 1 – 2 minutes. Remove from heat.

11. Taste and adjust salt, soya sauce, tomato sauce, vinegar, sriracha sauce pepper powder or vinegar. Add more according to your taste.

12. Garnish with chopped scallions and serve hot. You can also garnish with toasted sesame seeds if you want.

Notes
1. Chilli sauce can be used instead of sriracha sauce.
2. You can add thinly sliced carrots, capsicum, red, yellow bell peppers, cabbage, sweet corn or any vegetables of your choice. Or eggs and shredded chicken can be used to make this noodles.
3. Increase or decrease the amount of sauce and vinegar according to your taste.
4. Use green chilli and pepper powder as per your spice tolerance.

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Fruity Salad With Dried Basil

Fruity salad with dried basil.
Sharing one of my favourite and simple yet tasty and flavourful salad.
A healthy, easy to make and delicious salad.
Serve this salad with lunch or dinner or enjoy a bowl full only salad. You can add any of your favourite fruit in it. I have used apple, pear, pomegranate, sweet corn and tomato. I have also added dry roasted almond and fresh coconut to add some crunch.
You may like some more salad recipes on this blog.

1. Corn salad

2. Fruity salad with parsley

3. Peas chickpeas low calorie salad

4. Mango pomegranate tender coconut salsa

5. Watermelon salsa

Sending this salad to this week’s Foodiemonday bloghop. I am late today. My kitchen is under renovation. So I have decided to skip this week. But my lovely friend Preethi Prasad suggested me to try something. In evening when the carpenters stopped their work for today I have made this simple yet healthy and delicious salad with whatever I had in my pantry. And very happy with the taste and flavour. Thanks Preethi.

This week 212 #Foodiemonday bloghop theme is salad stories suggested by our bloghop member and very talented blogger Narmadha. Narmadha blog at Nams Corner. Check out her space for different kinds of recipes. I especially love her dessert recipes. You can also get non-veg recipes on her blog.

I have used apple, pomegranate, pear, cucumber, coconut and tomato. You can use any fruit of your choice. Finely chopped onion can be used in the salad. Sometimes I also add little garlic powder but today I have made it without onion garlic. You can also use mint leaves or cilantro/coriander leaves in the salad if you want.

Recipe

Apple – 1 small, cubed

Pomegranate arils – 1/2 cup

Pear – 1 small, cubed

Fresh coconut – 1/4 cup, finely chopped

Almonds – 2 tablespoon, dry roasted

Sweet corn kernels – 1/2 cup, boiled

Cucumber – 1 small, peeled and cubed

Tomato – 1, cubed

Pink or black salt or rock salt – to taste

Freshly ground black pepper – to taste

Dried basil – 1 teaspoon

Ginger powder – 1/2 teaspoon, optional

Lemon juice – 2 tablespoon

Vinegar – 1 tablespoon

Method

1. Slice the dry roasted almonds.

2. In a glass bowl combine all the fruits, tomato, cucumber and sweet corn.

3. Add black, pink or rock salt, freshly ground black pepper, dried basil, vinegar and lemon juice.

4. Add dry ginger powder if using. You can also use ginger julienne or grated ginger if you like the flavour of ginger.

5. Mix well. Taste and add more salt and lemon juice if required.

6. Serve immediately or keep in the refrigerator and serve chilled.

Notes
1. You can use any herbs of your choice instead of basil.
2. Finely chopped or sliced onion can be used in the salad.

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Schezwan Paneer

Schezwan paneer.
A lip-smacking Indo Chinese style paneer or cottage cheese dish to make quickly and easily. Its a most favourite paneer dish among my family and friends.
I have made it simple only with cottage cheese, onion, garlic, chilli, vinegar and some sauce. But you can use capsicum, red, yellow bell peppers, baby corn, sweet corn, beans, broccoli or any vegetables of your choice. I have used homemade paneer or cottage cheese. Get the recipe of cottage cheese here.

My paneer hater family members also love this dish 😀. Not only that its a quiet easy and quick to make. You can serve it as a teatime snack or side dish or as sandwich stuffing. Yes it will also great as sandwich stuffing. I am sure there will be no leftover but if you have some leftover Schezwan paneer make sandwiches with it and enjoy 😊

Recipe

Paneer or cottage cheese – 3 cup, cubed

Onion – 2 large, sliced

Garlic – 3 – 4, minced or finely chopped

Green chilli – 1 – 2, chopped

Tomato – 1 large, sliced

Schezwan sauce or chutney – 2 tablespoon

Vinegar – 2 tablespoon

Tomato sauce – 1 – 2 tablespoon

Soya sauce – 2 teaspoon

Chilli sauce – 2 teaspoon

Salt to taste

Oil – 3 tablespoon

Method

1. Mix vinegar, Schezwan sauce, tomato sauce, soya sauce and chilli sauce in a bowl and keep aside.

2. Heat oil in a pan or wok. Add garlic, onion and green chilli.

3. When onion becomes translucent add tomato. Saute till tomato becomes mushy.

4. Now add cubed paneer or cottage cheese and salt. Mix well. Add salt carefully because we have to add sauce and all the sauce has salt.

5. Add the mixture of soya, tomato, chilli sauce, schezwan sauce and vinegar. I like my dish with little sweetness so added 2 tablespoon tomato sauce. If you like less sweet first add 1 tablespoon tomato sauce, taste when done and add 1 tablespoon more if require.

6. Mix and saute till paneer or cottage cheese coated well with sauce. Taste and adjust salt and tomato sauce if require.

7. Garnish with scallion or onion green and tomato slices. Serve hot.

Notes
1. You can use capsicum, red, yellow bell pepper, baby corn or any vegetables.
2. Add chilli or chilli sauce according to your taste.

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Ginger Noodles

Ginger noodles.
Today sharing one of my most favourite and very easy to make noodles recipe.
To make this delicious noodles you can use cabbage or any vegetable of your choice. I don’t like cabbage so I didn’t use. I have used whatever vegetables I had in my pantry. Sometimes I also use broccoli and capsicum.

Its a vegetarian recipe but if you want you can add shredded and boiled chicken or scrambled egg or sliced omelette in it.
Enjoy the noodles with chilli paneer, honey chilli potatoes, chilli chicken or manchurian etc.

This post is going to be a part of A to Z challenge, a challenge initiated on Facebook Group, created by Jolly
and Vidya.
Wherein a group of bloggers come together and we choose key ingredients alphabetically to cook and post a dish every alternate month. This month’s Alphabet is letter G.

Some more recipes for this challenge I have posted earlier.

Beetroot shot

Corn cottage cheese stir fry

Date walnut fudge

Eggs in poppy seeds or dim posto

Fennel oats millet cookies

To make this noodles cut the vegetables in thin slices and cook on high heat to retain the crunch of the vegetables. Be careful while boiling the noodles. Noodles shouldn’t be over cook. If you want you can also add chicken, eggs etc.

Recipe

Noodles – 150 gram

Ginger – 1 tablespoon, grated

Onion – 1 large, sliced

Garlic – 3 – 4 cloves, minced or finely chopped

Tomato 1 medium, sliced

Red Bell pepper – 1 medium, sliced

Yellow Bell pepper – 1 medium, sliced

Spring onion green – 1 – 2, chopped

Green chilli – 1 – 2, chopped

Carrot – 1 medium, thinly sliced

Vinegar – 2 tablespoon

Tomato sauce – 1 tablespoon

Schezwan sauce – 1 & 1/2 tablespoon

Soya sauce – 2 tablespoon

Chilli sauce – 1/2 tablespoon

Black pepper powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Oil – 2 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon

Method

1. Boil the noodles and 2 minutes or according to the instructions printed on the noodles packet. Add 1 teaspoon salt in the boiling water then add the noodles. Boil for 2 minutes and drain the water immediately.

2. Rinse the noodles with tap water.
Spread on a plate and toss with 1 teaspoon oil to prevent sticking.

3. Peel and chop the carrot into thin slices.
Thinly slice the red and yellow bell pepper and tomato.

4. In a bowl mix vinegar, soya sauce, tomato sauce, chilli sauce and Schezwan sauce. Keep aside.

5. Heat oil in a pan. Add sliced onion, garlic and green chilli. Fry till onion becomes translucent.

6. Add grated ginger and carrot. Fry for 2 minutes.

7. Add bell peppers, spring onion green and tomato. Saute for 1 minute.

8. Add vinegar, soya, chilli, tomato and Schezwan sauce. Mix well.

9. Now add the boiled noodles, salt and black pepper powder. Toss well.

10. If you feel difficult to toss, mix with the help of two spatula or tongs.

11. When the noodles will coated well with sauce, remove from heat.

12. Garnish with chopped spring onion green and ginger julienne.
Serve hot with chilli paneer, chilli chicken or manchurian.

Notes
1. You can use any vegetable like cabbage, broccoli florets, capsicum, beans etc.
2. Boiled and shredded chicken can be used with vegetables.
3. You can add scrambled eggs or omelette pieces in the noodles.
4. Use chilli according to your taste. If you are making it for kids then you can skip chilli and chilli sauce.

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Corn Salad

Corn salad.
Delicious refreshing filling and healthy salad. Perfect for this hot weather.
Just mix sweet corn, parsley, tomato, cucumber and onion with a tangy delicious dressing. Topped with roasted almond and sesame seeds. And your salad will be ready in a jiffy.
Roasted crunchy almond and sesame seeds will make this salad delish.

You can get some more salad recipe here.
Peas chickpea low calorie salad

Mango pomegranate tender coconut salsa

Fruity salad with corn cucumber and parsley

Its my 300 post on the blog. Sharing this healthy salad and coming soon with one more interesting recipe for you.
Sending this post to the 151 #Foodiemonday bloghop #Corn theme.

I have mentioned above that recipe is very easy and simple. I have used 1 tablespoon almond in it but if you like more crunch then you can use 2 tablespoon sliced roasted almond. If you don’t like parsley then you can use cilantro or coriander leaves, mint, basil or any other herb of your choice.

Recipe

Sweet corn – 1/2 cup

Tomato – 2, chopped

Onion – 1, sliced

Parsley – 1/4 cup

Cucumber – 1

Lemon juice – 2 tablespoon

Vinegar – 2 tablespoon

Mustard powder – 3/4 teaspoon

Black pepper powder – 1 teaspoon

Salt to taste

Olive oil – 2 teaspoon

Almond – 1 tablespoon

Sesame seeds – 1 tablespoon

Method

1. For dressing, in a bowl mix olive oil, salt, mustard powder, lemon juice, vinegar, salt and black pepper powder. Whisk well and keep aside.

2. Dry roast the almonds and sesame seeds.
Let the almonds cool down and slice them.

3. In a bowl mix sweet corn, cubed cucumber, chopped tomatoes, sliced onion and parsley leaves.

4. Mix the dressing in it. Combine everything well.

5. Taste and add more salt and lemon juice if require.
Sprinkle roasted sliced almonds and roasted sesame seeds over it.

6. Cover and keep in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.

Serve chilled

Enjoy……

Notes

1. If you don’t have parsley then you can use cilantro, mint, basil or any herb of your choice.

2. You can add 1 tablespoon more roasted and sliced almond if you like the crunchiness in your salad.

3. You can use broccoli, capsicum, bell peppers, carrot, radish or whatever vegetable you like.

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Gazpacho Or Cold Soup

Gazpacho

In this hot weather we want some no cook dishes, right? 😀

Yes we enjoy smoothies, cooler, mojito and different types of fruit juice and mocktails in this season.

Now what about some refreshing chilled, yummy and healthy soup made of raw vegetables and fruits. Nothing is better than a bowl of gazpacho in summer. Some crisp toast and a bowl of chilled no cook soup, perfect dinner for summer.

Gazpacho is a Spanish cold soup made of raw vegetables.

You can get one more cold soup recipe here.

Our this week’s 91st #Foodiemonday bloghop theme is #20minutes recipes. My contribution is this chilled, refreshing, healthy and yummy gazpacho.

If you have all the ingredients in your pantry you can make it in a jiffy. Just chop and blend. Keep it in refrigerator and serve chilled or add some ice cubes.

Instead of sugar I have used grapes and watermelon. Fruits made the soup delicious and healthy. And both are easily available in this season. I have used almonds to give a creamy texture.

Recipe

Chopped tomatoes – 3 cup

Cucumber – 1 small peeled and chopped

Onion – 1 small chopped

Garlic – 1 clove chopped

Capsicum – 1 small chopped

Seedless watermelon cubes – 1/4 cup

Grapes – 1/4 cup

Chopped cilantro – 1/4 cup

Vinegar or lemon juice – 2 tablespoon

Almonds – 1/4 cup soaked and peeled

Olive oil – 1 tablespoon, optional

Salt and pepper to taste

Chopped tomato, cucumber, onion and cilantro for garnishing

Method

Taste the chopped cucumber. It shouldn’t be bitter.

Combine all the ingredients. Blend in a mixer grinder.

I have made it smooth but you can keep it little coarse if you like.

I have used vinegar, you can use lemon juice too if you don’t like vinegar.

Taste and adjust salt, pepper and vinegar or lemon juice if require. Drizzle olive oil. I didn’t.

Garnish with chopped cilantro, tomato, cucumber and lemon wedges.

Keep in refrigerator and serve chilled. Or you can add some ice cubes if you want to serve it immediately.

Serve with crisp toast.

Enjoy the delicious, refreshing and chilled gazpacho or cold soup.