Monday, 5 December 2011

Veg Jalfarezi

Winter season brings in a whole lot of different vegetables. Its a great time to prepare variety of dishes using many vegetables. Make soups, dry vegetables, starters or any sweet dish with them.
Here is one of winter special "Veg jalfarezi"
Jalfarezi means marinated vegetable or meat cooked in little oil with onions, tomato and green chilies. 
Ingredients:
1cup cauliflower florets
vegetables for jalfarezi
2 large potato(cut into small pieces)
1/2 cup peas
2 large carrot( cut into half length strips)
1/2 cup corn kernels
8-10 french beans(cut into small pieces)
2 Medium capsicum(cut into strips)
2 medium onion(cut into strips)
2 green chilies (cut length wise)
2 large tomatoes(cut into thin strips)
1 table spoon ginger(cut into thin strips)
2 table spoon tomato sauce
1 tablespoon curd
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder(haldi)
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder(kaali mirch)
salt according to taste
2 tablespoon ghee
For garnishing:
Chopped coriander leaves
Method:
Blanch or par boil the mentioned vegetables: Cauliflower,beans,potatoes,peas,corn kernels and carrots.
In a kadahi, Heat ghee and add onions, ginger& chillies. Saute till onion turns light in colour.
stir frying tomato and capsicum
Add tomatoes and stir fry them, add capsicum too. To these stir fried vegetables add tomato sauce and mix well. Add all the spices and well beaten curd to this and mix well.
Now add the blanched/par boiled vegetables and mix all the ingredients nicely.
Cover it with a lid and let the vegetable cook for 2 -3 minutes on low-medium flame.
Finally garnish it with chopped coriander leaves and serve.

Veg Jalfarezi is ready!! enjoy this with  Milk phulkas

Optional notes:
One can make variations in choice of vegetables to be added in this dish but mostly above mentioned vegetables are used to prepare it.
Instead of curd one can add cream also to give it a little sweet taste.




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