SWEET AND SOUR VEGETABLES(Stir fried veggies in a sweet and tangy sauce)

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Sweet and sour vegetables.................this is always the perfect go for all the chinese dishes, and you will enjoy it to the hilt...it has sweet and tangy sauce in it, crunchy vegetables, sweet pineapple, and more than anything, when the veggies are cut and ready,  it hardly takes few minutes to make this dish.

Ingredients

Spring onions - 1 bunch

Thinly shredded cabbage - 2 cups

Thinly julienned carrots - 2 cups

Thinly sliced green bell pepper - 1

Thinly cut chow-chow (chayote squash) - 2 cups

Pineapple pieces - 1 cup

Ginger paste - 11/2 tsp

Garlic paste - 11/2 tsp

Any cooking oil - 3 tbsps

Salt to taste

For the Sauce

Tomato ketchup - 3/4 cup

Soy sauce - 1/4 cup

Vinegar - 1/4 cup

Hot and spicy red chilli sauce - 4 tsps

Sugar - 4 tbsps

Corn flour - 3 tsps

Water - 1/2 cup

Recipe Cuisine: International/Indo - chinese; Category: Lunch/dinner

Prep time: 10 mts; Cooking time: 10 mts

Serves 6

Heat oil in  a broad pan and add finely chopped spring onions

and add ginger garlic paste

Keeping on high flame, saute well

Now add the green bell peppers

cabbage

the chow chow/chayote squash pieces

carrots

and saute  everything well on high flames

Mix the above mentioned ingredients to a thick sauce

Veggies have shrunk a bit on high flames

Add the sauce now

Now add the pineapple pieces

Give a good stir and allow to simmer on slow fire for some time

Sauce has cooked well, veggies would have imbibed all flavors. Check and add little salt, since soy sauce has some salt in it

Serve this tasty aromatic dish with Quinoa fried rice.

This post first appeared in www.malpatskitchen.com

Notes

* Cucumbers and baby corn can also be added. 

* If you buy tinned pineapples, and if they are soaked in sugar syrup, you can add some of this syrup too, while making the sauce.

Categories: Indo chinese, Inseparable Combos, International cuisine