Thursday, July 12, 2012

Cheating My Way to a Quicker Stir Fry

The bike gave me monsoon grief and I ended up pushing my Enfield through the traffic throng of Saki Naka and Kurla. I missed gym and reached home and felt like just going off to sleep. My tummy had other plans and protested growling in hunger. I felt like a hot bowl of stir fry but balked at the time I would need to stir... I was feeling that tired...

I hauled myself to the kitchen and pulled out bell peppers, remains of a little tofu and spinach, and half a zucchini and chopped them into a bowl from my attempts at pottery and nuked everything for a couple of minutes.


I think Minminay and Digdigay catties associate the microwave with foody goodies, so they meowled around expecting grub. I got them some milk and got Yellow Bean paste from the fridge.


By now the veggies were par cooked and tofu too had softened, so I let the mix cool for while while I put a teaspoon of oil  in the non-stick pan and threw in some ground garlic.


While the garlic started browning I turned the veggies around in the bowl.


By now the garlic was just about to get about burnt so I put in the veggies, added roughly cut tomato to add colour and some more succulence and just enrobed all of these in the aroma.


A couple of teaspoons of yellow bean paste added a little more flavour, saltyness and just the right agglutination. 


Bingo! I was gobbling my 'stir-fry' having cheated my way through it in 10 minutes flat.