About:

This is a simple and easy indo-chinese vegetable curry which is spicy-tangy taste. I used carrots, bell peppers, french beans, cucumber in this curry with homemade schezwan sauce. Homemade sauce has an advantage of personalising to your taste and it can be prepared 2-3day ahead and stored in the fridge in an air-tight container.

This curry can be served with steamed rice or any indo-chinese fried rice (click for recipe link)

I served this with mushroom fried rice (click for recipe link)

Serves-3-4 servings
Preparation time-15 minutes
Cooking time-30 minutes

Ingredients:

Vegetables:

• Chopped onion-1medium
• Chopped carrots-1
• Hopped french beans-1/2cup
• Chopped bell peppers/capsicum-1medium
• Chopped cucumber/zucchini -1small/half medium
• (i chopped vegetables small pieces feel free to chop/ dice as desired)

For curry and schezwan sauce:

• Red chillies-3
• Garlic-3cloves
• Chopped ginger-2tsp
• white pepper powder-1/4tsp
• Soy sauce-2tsp
• Vinegar-2tbsp
• Chopped tomato – 1medium
• Corn flour-1-2tbsp (dissolved in 2-3tbsp of water)
• Vegetable stock/water-2cups
• Oil-2tsp
• Salt- to taste

For garnish:

• Chopped spring onion greens

Procedure:

• Combine red chillies, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, vinegar, white pepper powder, tomato in a blender/food processor and blend to smooth and set aside.
• Heat oil in a large wok until smoking hot , then lower the flame and add onion and saute for 1-2 minutes.
• Add carrots, beans saute for 2-3minutes and then add bell peppers, cucumbers/zucchini and saute until tender but crunchy (about-6-8minutes)
• Now add the ground paste, vegetable stock/water and continue to cook on a medium low flame and bring it to boil.
• Add cornflour-water mixture, salt and simmer for 4-5minutes more/ until the sauce thickens slightly and vegetables are cooked through.
• Once the desired consistency is obtained turn off the flame and garnish with spring onion greens.

Serve with steamed rice/fried rice.

Note:

• Baby corn/mushrooms or any vegetables can be included as per the taste.
• Spices and sauces can be personalised as per the taste.
• Tomato puree/tomato ketchup can also be used instead of tomato.