Kitchen-Kollections

Mushroom dishes are quite easy to make and they taste really good. Its my husband’s favourite dish (mine too..) and he is quite an expert in making yummy stir fry dishes. He makes mouthwatering portbello mushrooms sandwich which are definetly out of this world mmmm..well..here is the quick recipe of Mushroom stir fry with pearl onions. Its a tasty starter or snack..it goes quite well with fruit juice!! Pearl onions are available in any grocery store..i have used white ones in this recipe.

This is going to be my entry for JFI- February Onions

Mushroom Stir fry with pearl onions

Ingredients

1 pack of mushrooms

half cup pearl onions

Sweet red and yellow bell peppers (1/2 cup each)

Green chillies(split long)

Chilli powder

salt to taste

seasoned salt

Coriandar leaves (1 cup)

Balasmic vinegar (1 tbs)

Method

Cut the mushrooms and wipe them clean with a wet cloth or paper towel.  Add two tablespoon oil in a pan. Heat it and fry the onions and Pepper. Keep stirring them so that they are properly fried. Add Salt and Chilli powder.Add the Pearl onions and fry for 5 mins then add Mushrooms and fry for few more minutes. Now add half table spoon of Balsamic vinegar, one tbs of Hot and chilli Sauce(tomato ketchup). On medium heat fry for 10more minutes. Add a little seasoned salt and garnish with coriandar leaves……………..YUMMYYYYY its ready to eat!!!!!!

Well..its beautiful weather outside..its raining! I feel..something is definetly different about the way it rains in India..i dont know why. May be because of the sweet smell of wet earth or the way everybody patiently waits for rains! In some places..people celebrate when it rains..specially the first rain of the monsoon season. Best thing about delhi weather (coz i lived in new delhi) is i think its predictable. nov to feb its sure shot cold winter..feb to april its spring..april till july its hot hot summer..july to september its raining season or you can say autumn..october is festival season hahaha you know whats going to happen in each month. Here in US..it rains in every season..haha its funny how i am comparing..may be I still have not got used to this climate. Now i will stop talking about weather..lets talk about our onion pakoras…indians love eating endless plates of pakoras..rain plus pakoras plus hot tea..thats it. its a perfect combination! One can easily make all these in a jiffy. So here is the recipe..

Onion Fritters or Onion pakoras

1 cup gram flour or besan

2 tbsp corn flour

2 sliced onions

4 to 5 slit green chillies

A bunch of curry leaves

1 tsp jeera or fennel

1 tsp red chilli powder

a pinch of turmeric

salt to taste

oil

Method

Sieve gram flour and corn flour and mix it with all the ingredients. Add little water and keep mixing it so that there are no lumps. It should have smooth consistency. The more chillies you add..the more spicy it will be..so adjust accordingly. After you have mixed it..keep it covered for 10 minutes. Take a deep pan and add oil to it and heat it on medium. With the help of a spoon, take a spoonful of the batter and deep fry it in the oil. When the pieces are properly friend or become brown in color, take them out and put them on some absorbent paper. Serve hot with dhaniya pudina chutney or hot chilli sauce!