Mushroom Chilli
a delicious Indo-Chinese starter / side dish.
Servings 3 people
Ingredients
- 10 to 12 grams button mushrooms (khumbh)
- 2 tbsp of wheat flour or refined flour (gehu ka aata or maida) to clean the mushrooms
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste (adrak lehsun paste)
- 1 tbsp + 1 tsp soya sauce
- 2 tbsp cornflour
- 2 tbsp oil (tel)
- 1 tsp finely chopped ginger (adrak)
- 2 tsp finely chopped garlic (lehsun)
- ¾ cup chopped spring onions (hara pyaaz)
- 1 medium sized capsicum, cut into cubes (Shimla mirch)
- 1 tsp black pepper powder (kali mirch powder)
- salt as per taste (namak)
- 1 tbsp red chilli sauce (laal mirch sauce)
- 1 tbsp tomato sauce (tamatar sauce)
- 1 tsp vinegar (sirka)
- 1 tbsp chopped spring onion greens (hare pyaaz)
Instructions
- Firstly, the mushrooms are to be cleaned thoroughly.
- In a large bowl, add the mushrooms.
- Add water and rinse.
- Drain the water.
- Add the flour and coat mushrooms with it.
- Then add water and rinse thoroughly. Drain the water.
- Add water again and wash the mushrooms well. Drain the water.
- Pat dry the mushrooms using tissue paper.
- Next, cut the mushrooms into thick slices and keep aside.
- In a large bowl, mix ginger garlic paste and 1 tbsp soya sauce.
- Add chopped mushrooms and mix well.
- Add cornflour and coat the mushrooms well with cornflour. Keep this aside.
- Heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan.
- Add marinated mushrooms.
- Shallow fry the mushrooms.
- Remove the fried mushrooms and keep aside.In the same pan, add chopped ginger, chopped garlic and chopped spring onions.
- Saute for a minute.
- Now, add capsicum cubes.
- Saute for few minutes.
- Add salt, black pepper powder, 1 tsp soya sauce, red chilli sauce, tomato sauce and mix well.
- Add fried mushrooms, vinegar and give a mix.
- Finally, garnish with chopped spring onion greens.
- Serve hot.