Vegetarian American Chopsuey

Few weeks back,hubby and I went to a restaurant named "VV Grand" in our place. It is a beautiful restaurant with a lovely atmosphere. We ordered this recipe over there and I was so impressed with that. It tasted so awesome and it was love at first sight. From that moment I know that I should try my hands on it. I am working on the restaurant review for that amazing restaurant. Will post that soon.

So coming back to the recipe. It is one of the requested recipe in my blog. This restaurant involves few steps in it. But the end result will be awesome. I have given a step by step instruction which will help you  a lot. So hope you will try it and let me know how it came out for you.

Serves : 2 to 3 

Ingredients:

Egg Noodles - 1 packet

Oil for Deep frying

For Vegetable Mixture:

Oil - 1 tblspn

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tblspn

Onion - 1 sliced thinly

Carrot - 1 sliced juliened

Cabbage - 1/2 cup shredded

Bell pepper / Capsicum - 1/2 sliced thinly

Salt to taste

Sugar to taste

Pepper - 1 tsp or to taste

Ajinomoto / MSG - 1 tsp or to taste ( Optional)

For Sauce:

Tomato ketchup - 3 tblspn

Soya Sauce - 1 tsp or to taste

Vinegar - 1 tsp or to taste

Water - 1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Sugar - 1 tsp or to taste

Chilli powder - 1 tsp

Corn Flour / Corn Starch - 2 tsp

Method:

Step 1:

Start by cooking the noodles in water till they are done. Drain it and set aside to get dry.

Now make the vegetable mixture. Heat oil in a pan.

Add in ginger garlic paste and saute for a min.

Add in onions and mix well. Now add in all the vegetables and give a stir. Cook for 10 mins so they are cooked completely.

Season this with salt, sugar and ajinomoto, pepper and mix well. Vegetable mixture done.

Step 2:

Now make the sauce. Take all the ingredients for the sauce in a pan and bring it to a boil.

Simmer that for 5-10 mins till the raw flavour goes out.

Mix cornflour with few tblspn of cold water and mix well..

Now add in cornflour mixture and mix well so that it gets thick. Now the sauce is done.

Step 3:

Now fry the Noodles. Heat oil in a pan. When it gets hot Take noodles and drop it in there.

Fry that till golden and drain them aside.

Step 4:

Now time to assemble. Take noodles in a bowl. Add in vegetable mixture and sauce over it and toss well.

Serve immediately.

Pictorial:

Start by making the vegetable mixture

Saute ginger garlic in oil

add in onions

and cook till light golden

add in all the vegetables

along with a touch of salt and sugar

mix well

and let it cook for a while..Vegetables done

Now make the sauce

Add all the stuffs in a sauce pan

and bring it to boil

let it boil till it gets thick

add the corn starch mixture 

and mix well..Sauce done..

Now lets do the crispy noodles..Boil egg noodles and drain it

Heat oil in a kadai

drop the noodles and let them fry

till they turn crispy and golden

Now time to assemble

Take noodles in a bowl

add the vegetable mixture

pour your sauce over

and toss well

Serve