HealthyeatsDay #13 Exotic Veggies in Hot and Spicy Thai Sauce with Nutty Sweet Brown Rice

Exotic Veggies in Spicy Thai Sauce

Ingredients -

2 Cups water

2 Kafir lime or a bunch of Lemon Grass 

1/2 Carrot (sliced) 

4-5 Button Mushrooms

1/4 Cup Baby corn (sliced)

1/4 Cup Spring onion greens (chopped) 

2 - 3 Spring onion bulbs (cut in half)

1/2 Zucchini (Sliced)

3-4 Broccoli Florets 

2-3 Garlic cloves

1 inch Ginger /Thai Ginger

1 Tsp Corn starch 

1 Tbsp Dark soya sauce 

1 Tsp Salt 

1 Tsp Olive oil 

1 Chilli /Thai chilli (slit) 

Method -

1. Boil water in a pot. Add Kafir lime /lemon grass, 1/2 bulb of spring onion, slice of ginger and a garlic. Let it boil and use it as a stock for cooking the vegetables. 

2. Now in this pot add one vegetable at a time and cook for only 1 minute. Remove it (leaving the stock ingredients as is in the pot) and put it in ice cold water for some time and strain it. 

3. Follow the step 2 for other vegetables (except spring onion bulbs and greens) adding them, cooking for a minute and straining it in ice cold water.

4. Now remove the pot from the stove and strain the ingredients (Kafir lime, spring onion bulb, garlic and ginger) from the stock and keep the stock aside. 

5.Now heat oil in a pan add chopped garlic and ginger and chilli. Sauté it for few minutes.

6. Add few onion bulbs, and cooked vegetables such as carrots, baby corn, mushrooms, zucchini and broccoli Florets and stir fry them on a high flame for a few minutes. 

7. Mix corn starch, dark soy sauce and salt. 

8. Now add the stock to the sautéed vegetables, and add the sauce mixture and let it boil for a few minutes. 

9. Switching off the stove, add spring onion greens at the last to retain its crunch.

Nutty Sweet Brown Rice 

Ingredients -

1 Cup Brown rice (cooked with salt and water)

2-3 Tbsp Raw peanuts

1 Tsp White Sesame seeds 

1 Tsp Honey 

Method - 

1. In an non stick pan dry roast peanuts and Sesame seeds for few minutes till it turns crunchy. 

2. Add cooked brown rice to it and saute it for a while. 

3. Add honey and stir it well. 

Serve Exotic vegetables in Hot and Spicy Thai Sauce with Nutty Sweet Brown Rice