Vegetable Noodles

Vegetable noodles is a very popular Indo Chinese dish. I don’t think there will be anyone who does not like noodles. It is so easy to prepare and also tastes good. I have added lot of vegetables to make it more healthy.

Ingredients

• Noodles – 250 g
• 3 cloves garlic finely chopped
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 1 cup cabbage thinly sliced
• 2 medium carrot thinly sliced
• 2 medium capsicum thinly sliced
• 4 tbsp oil
• 4 tsp Soya sauce
• 2 tsp green chilli sauce
• 1 tsp Black pepper powder
• Salt to taste

Preparation

1.  Bring water to boil adding a tsp of oil and salt. Then add noodles to the boiling water. Stir it now and then to prevent the noodles from sticking together.
2.  Drain the noodles and run cold water over it to prevent it from sticking to each other.Keep it aside.

Method

1.  Heat oil in a pan. Add finely chopped garlic and saute for 2 seconds.
2.  Add finely chopped onions and saute for a minute on high flame.
3.  Add thinly sliced carrot, cabbage and capsicum. Saute them on high flame. Make sure not to overcook the vegetables. It should be crunchy.
4.  Add soya sauce and chilli sauce.
5.  Add the cooked noodles, salt and black pepper powder. Mix well so that the noodles get coated with the sauces.
6.  Serve hot with tomato sauce.

Notes

1.  The whole cooking has to be done on high flames, stirring continuously.
2.  The noodles should not be overcooked. It should be firm but not hard.
3.  The sauce proportions can be varied according to personal preferences.
4.  I used Italian Spaghetti for this recipe.