Vegetable Jalfrezi Recipe

Ingredients :

• 1/2 cup Cauliflower (Phool Gobi)
• 1/2 cup Cabbage
• 1 medium Carrot (Gaajar)
• 1/2 cup Peas (matar)
• 1/2 capsicum (shimla mirch)
• 2- 3 French Beans
• 1 Onion (pyaj)
• 1 Tomato (tamatar)
• 3 - 4 Garlic Pods
• 1 Green chilly (hari mirch)
• 1/2 " piece Ginger (adrak)
• 1/2 tsp Red Chilly Powder
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
• 1/4 tsp Coriander Powder (dhania)
• 1 tsp salt (namak)
• 1 tblsp Tomato Puree
• 1 tblsp Vinegar
• 2 tsp Cornflour
• 1/2 cup cream (optional)
• 2 tbsp Oil

How to Make :

• Cut cauliflower, Carot and French Beans into thick long pieces.
• Now blanch these vegetables along with peas so as to soften them and strain them and keep aside.
• Also cut into big cube Onions, Tomato, cabbage and Capsicum.
• Make a fine paste of garlic, ginger and green chilly.
• Heat oil in a pan and fry onion cubes until it turns pink.
• Then fry ginger-garlic-chilly paste for a minute.
• Then add tomato puree and fry for few minutes.
• Now add red chilly powder, dhania powder, salt, turmeric powder and vinegar.
• Add all the boiled vegetables and fry at high flame for 5 minutes.
• Now add cubed tomatoes, capsicum, cabbage. And further fry for not more than 2 - 3 mins or the vegetables will lose their crunch.
• Now make a lump free paste of cornflour dissolved in 1/2 of cup of water.
• Add it to the vegetables and cook on high flame till all the water evaporates and the gravy thickens.
• Now switch off the flame and add cream to make it more restaurant style.
• Take it out in a dish and garnish with ginger julienne.