Manchow Soup

 Manchow Soup 

In these rainy, gloomy and unbearably cold winters, warm and spicy soups prove to be the best solution to combat the chilling cold. Manchow Soup, in particular is a healthy and delicious way to include some of the best winter-selling vegetables like cabbage, zucchini, beans, spring onions and carrot in an appetising wrapping of spicy and warm soup. It has been the highlight for my family's evening conversations, so much that it almost felt impossible to get the picture clicked for the blog. Soups are best served warm and therefore, to absolutely no one's surprise, the soups would be gone before I could even get a hold of my camera. The solution to that was simple really, I booked the entire Sunday afternoon and warned everyone to not enter the 50 cm radius surrounding the soup and my kitchen. The threats, as can be seen below, worked like a charm. 

The inclusion of various vegetables can at times be a task for the person preparing the soup. With a lot of ingredients to chop, the cook would need a lot of time, patience and perhaps a good music playlist. If you have all those essentials ticked down, all that is left is for you to prepare this recipe and enjoy a warm bowl of soup while enjoying the chilly wind of winters, wrapped up in a blanket.

Preparation Time : 20 Min

Cooking Time : 7 to 10 Min

Serves : 2 

Ingredients : 

• Oil 1 Tablespoon
  
• Garlic chopped 1/2 Tablespoon
• Ginger 1 Teaspoon chopped
• Green Chillies chopped 1 Teaspoon
• Onion 2 Tablespoons chopped
• Onion greens 1 Tablespoon chopped 
• Carrot  2 Tablespoon chopped 
• Zucchini chopped 2 Tablespoon
• Beans chopped 2 tablespoon
• Cabbage chopped 2 tablespoon
• Salt according to taste
• Black pepper crushed 1 Teaspoon or according to taste
• Soy sauce 1 tablespoon
• 1/2 tablespoon cornflour dissolved in 1 tablespoon of water
• Chilli sauce 1 teaspoon
• Vinegar 1 tablespoon
• Sugar 1 teaspoon
• Fried Noddles for garnishing 

Procedure : 

• First of all cut and chop all vegetables and keep aside.

• Lets prepare fried Noodles. First, boil your noodles and keep a side. Now add 1 Tablespoon of cornflour, some salt and pepper mix it well. Now deep fry them in small portions and keep it in an air tight box use it as required. 

• Let's start making our soup
• In a pan, take a tablespoon of oil, add chopped garlic, ginger and green chillies and saute them 

• Now add chopped onions and sauté it but not too much just for a minute on high flame so the crunch remains.

• Now add chopped beans, carrot and zucchini and toss them on high flame for a minute or two

• Now add chopped cabbage to this along with salt, pepper and sugar 

• Let's add 2 cups of water to this. Once its start boiling add soy sauce and chilly sauce to this 

• Now add cornflour mixture slowly slowly give a 2 to 3 boil and close the gas 

• Finish it with vinegar and some spring onion greens 

• Now serve this hot with fried noodles and enjoy 

Tip :  

You can add other vegetables too like bell peppers, mushroom or capsicum 

Try to cook vegetables on high flame and avoid over cooking otherwise your soup will not be as crunchy as restaurant one 

Chilly Garlic Noodles.

 Chilly Garlic Noodles

A Simple Way to serve Noodles with gravy.....

Preparation Time : 5 Min

Cooking Time : 15 Min

Ingredients :

• 1/2 Tablespoon olive oil
• 1 Tablespoon butter
• Chilly flakes according to taste
• Salt according to taste
• 5 - 6 Garlic cloves
• Teaspoon of crushed black pepper
• 1 Bowl boiled Noodles

Procedure :

• First of all boil noodles with salt and olive oil and keep it aside

• Now in a pan, add oil, butter and crushed garlic, sauté it. Now add chilly flakes, black pepper and salt 

• Now add boiled noodles, cook it on high flame for 3 to 4 minutes 

• Serve it hot with stir fried Tofu Vegetables in Hot and Sour Sauce

Tip : You can serve this with any type of gravy like Stir Fried Tofu Vegetables in Hot and Sour Sauce or Assorted Vegetables in Chilly Garlic Sauce 

Chinese Chaat

Chinese Chaat

 Being from north, I can't resist my craving for chaat as well as a big fan of Chinese. Recently on a weekend,  there was a debate in house to make Chinese or chaat. I just combined basic ingredients of Chinese noodles and vegetables with chutney and chaat spices. For my family, it was an instant hit, do share your family feedback on this...

Preparation Time : 15 min

Cooking Time : 20 min

Ingredients

• 2 Cup boiled and fried Noodles
• 1 boiled and fried potato 
• 2 Tablespoon roasted peanuts
• 2 Spring onions sliced 
• 2 Spring onions green chopped
• 1 Carrot sliced
• 1 Cup mixed bell peppers (red, yellow and green)
• 1 Cup shredded cabbage 
• 1 Teaspoon garlic (if you have dried garlic use that or the fresh one)
• 2 Green chillies chopped and soaked in a tablespoon vinegar 
• 2 Tablespoon green chutney
• 2 Tablespoon imli ki chutney
• 1 Tablespoon tomato sauce 
• 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 Teaspoon olive oil

Procedure 

• First take noodles and boil it upto 80%, now deep fry it . 
• Finish all other preparations like roasting peanuts, cutting and chopping of vegetables and boil and fry potato and keep aside
• Once all the preparation is done, take a bowl and add crispy fried noodles to this

• Now take a pan, add oil to this and once oil is heated add garlic to this. Further add onions and saute it then add sliced carrots to this. Cook it on high flame add bell peppers to this 

• Add cabbage and saute it. Salt and crushed black pepper can be put according to your taste and a spoon of tomato sauce. Make sure that vegetables are not over cooked, we have to just toast the vegetables so that the crunchiness of vegetables remain

• Now add these toasted vegetables to the noodles bowl and add all the other ingredients one by one, potatoes, peanuts, green chillies, spring onions green, lemon juice and imly ki chutney

• Mix all ingredients nicely and serve immediately 

Tips : Try to serve it immediately as you mix all the ingredients otherwise it will be soggy. you can add chutney, chilly and spices according to your taste.

Triple Schezuan Noodle Rice

Triple Schezuan Noodle Rice

Triple Schezuan Noodle Rice is a fusion of schezwan noodles and fried rice topped with crispy fried noodles. Some time we want to have some thing different from the usual stuff to surprise our family and guests . This one is perfect for that as it is made of lots of garlic, veggies, soft rice, crispy noodles and schezuan flavor......

Preparation Time : 20 min

Cooking Time : 15 min

Ingredients :

• 2 Tablespoon olive oil
• 1 Cup boiled rice
• 1 Cup boiled noodles
• 1 Cup fried noodles ( first boil the noodles and let them cool for some time then fry it )
• 2 Tablespoon chopped garlic
• 1 Tablespoon sliced green chilly
• 1/2 Cup sliced onions
• 1/2 Cup sliced beans
• 1/2 Cup sliced capsicum
• 1/2 Cup sliced carrots
• 1 Cup sliced cabbage
• 2 Table spoon Schezuan sauce
• 1 Tablespoon tomato sauce
• 1/2 Tablespoon soya sauce
• 2 Tablespoon spring onion greens
• Salt according to taste

For Serving :

• 2 Tablespoon fried noodles
• 2 Tablespoon spring onion greens
• Bowl of Assorted Vegetables in a Chilly Garlic Sauce

Procedure :

• First of all finish all the preparation like prepare steam rice, boil noodles with salt and olive oil, fried noodles and all cutting & chopping of vegetables

• Now heat oil in a wok or pan. Add garlic to this then green chilly and sauté it
• Add sliced onion and saute it on high flame now add beans, capsicum, carrots and cook it for a minute or two

• Now add sliced cabbage to this and mix it nicely

• Then add Schezuan sauce and tomato sauce to this and mix it. Add boiled noodles and toast it for a minute or two

• Now add boiled rice and mix all ingredients nicely. Last but not the least add fried noodles , soya sauce and salt. Toss all nicely on a high flame for another minute

• Triple Schezuan Noodle Rice is ready  garnish it with fried noodles and spring onion greens and serve it with hot Assorted Vegetables in Chilly Garlic Sauce....

Tip : For Assorted Vegetables in Chilly Garlic Sauce Recipe click