Waking up groggy on a Monday morning after a late night is a serious incentive to go straight back to sleep.
However, I had to get my ass off to office AND feed myself some lunch. Hmm...
I'd bought some palak from Nerul on my way to Peter's place, so, I quickly washed and chopped it up and defrosted some corn for 30 sec.
A couple of cloves of garlic, a little nub of ginger, and a longer suffering tomato sputtered together with the corn for a few minutes and then I quickly put in the palak and got ready for office...
I packed my lunch box and off I went to office...
I'd left three varieties of sprouts in my fridge when I'd defrosted it last week. I realized that the sprouts had frozen in the renewed vigour of my freshly defrosted fridge.
I realized that I'd have to cook them quickly once thawed or eat them at a single go in a salad. I'd feel like a goat on overdrive if I'd to munch through that much sprouts at one go, so I opted for cooking them for lunch.
I wanted to wander around and enjoy the last fading nip in the morning of Mumbai's fast retreating winter. So, I just gathered whatever I had within an arm's reach to start and quickly end cooking.
I'd a few sachets of ketchup saved from my office canteen orders and my last trip to Nirula's (many months ago). I also got out a few cloves of garlic and a little stub of ginger to add some flavour.
I put in some oil in the non-stick pan and threw in the sliced and quashed garlic and ginger and let it fry on low heat while I woke up the cat and look around from the balcony.
Once I got a whiff of the garlic caramelizing and threw in the sprout and stirred them around a bit.
I would have preferred to use the wok and retain the crunchyness of the sprouts, but opted for the pan since I'd use less oil and in any case a trip in the tiffin box would make the sprouts soggy by lunch.
I mixed a little dark soya sauce with the ketchup and kept it ready.
As an afterthought, I thawed some corn.
With the sprouts ready, I put in the corn and then added the soya-ketchup mix and then packed things up and got ready for office.
