Kadai Mushroom – Low oil

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About:
This curry is an exotic preparation of mushrooms, capsicum in onion and tomato paste with the blend of spices. This can be made using less oil.

Health benefits:
In the absence of sunlight or supplements, eating mushrooms is a good way to up your vitamin D levels, and the only vegetarian food source of vitamin D (Vitamin D deficiency is thought to be quite widespread in Britain). They are also a good source of B vitamins, which help provide energy by breaking down proteins, fats and carbohydrates, and play a key role in the nervous system.

Makes: 3 servings
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 25-30 minutes

Ingredients:
• Cleaned and chopped mushroom-200gms
• Cubed capsicum-1num
• Cubed onion-1num
• Corn flour/Starch-1tbsp
• Low fat milk-1/4 cup

For Kadai masala:
• Finely chopped onion-1num
• Finely chopped tomato-4num
• Slit Green chilli- 3-4 num
• Chopped Ginger-1/2inch
• Chopped Garlic-4pods
• Cumin/Jeera powder-1tsp
• Coriander powder-1/2tsp
• Garam masala powder-1tsp
• Turmeric-1/4tsp
• Chilli powder-1/2tsp (I used green chilli for the paste so check for the spice and then add if required)
• Coriander leaves-2tbsp + for garnishing
• Kasoori methi-1/2tsp
• Fennel Seeds/Sonfu – 1 tsp
• Salt as per taste.
• Oil-1tsp

Procedure:
• In a small bowl of Milk dissolve corn flour and set aside.(This increase the consistency of gravy)

For Stir fry:
• In a kadai saute Sliced Mushrooms, Diced Capsicum and Onion and saute until tender and crunchy (Oil is not added and can be included if desired

For Kadai gravy:

  • Heat Oil in a Kadai add fennel seeds, ginger, garlic saute for few seconds.
  • Now add chopped onion, slit green chilli and saute until onions are transulucent
  • Add chopped tomato, and dry spices (Chilli powder, Jeera powder, Coriander powder, Garam Masala and Turmeric) saute until the raw flavours goes off and tomatoes are mushy
  • Add cornflour and milk mixture and cook until thickens
  • Now add stir fried Mushroom capsicum and Onion season with some salt and Kasoori Methi; Mix well and cook until veggies are coated and heated through.
  • Turn off the flame and garnish with coriander.

Serve hot with Parathas/Naan.

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Note:
• Just for low cal option haven’t used any oil to saute the gravy you can add if you wish to.
• Used green chilli in the gravy you can just use red chilli powder
• You can add cream in place of corn flour & milk

About Chitra Jagadish

My passion for Cooking & love to explore healthy recipes. This blog is a result from it and am here to share 'Recipes for Healthy living'...Its all about 'FOOD and HEALTH'

Posted on February 9, 2015, in Indian, Side dish and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 24 Comments.

  1. I love mushrooms, so will definitely have to try this. It looks great! 🙂

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  2. This sounds so good–I love mushrooms and onions, and I bet they are great with all these spices added in!

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  3. Traditionally Modern Food

    Healthy and tatsy side dish Chitra:-)

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  4. It looks fab Chitra!!!! Photos looks great 🙂

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  5. I like the new look of your blog Chitra. Congrats!! Thanks for sharing the delicious recipe too 🙂

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  6. Reblogged this on Chef Ceaser.

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  7. Wonderful curry! Full of wonderful flavours!

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  8. I am sure you know what I will say.. not a fan of mushroom. . But curry is yummyyyy

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  9. This is a great recipe! I love mushrooms 🙂 On my blog also there is a version of Kadhai Mushroom, would you be interested in checking it out? 🙂 xx

    Aditi
    http://www.diaryofacusp.com

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