Vegetables single-side fry by Alienbaba recipe #2

Alienbaba kitchen-café Vegetables single-side fry by Alienbaba April 7 2013 11 pm Santacruz Goa. I felt hungry again….it feels good to be hungry again. So then this time I made an exotic dish with vegetables of course…what else!! Vegetables single-side fry Time taken for preparation 20 minutes total. Pics above are in various stages of cooking. Ingredients: Few leaves of Mint, One Tomato cut in thin rings, 1/3 of a carrot in diagonal rings, pinch of turmeric powder, Three/four slices of karela, a quarter green capsicum cut in medium slivers, a green chilly with its tail chopped off,, 4 lady fingers okra/bhendi cut in rings, a quarter onion sliced in rings, two small chunks of mango pickle spiced/filled with red masala and asafetida…or just two slices of raw mango will do as well…a tea-spoon of garam masala, half-tea spoon table salt, one table spoonful edible cooking oil, an oval or flat thick pan. Cut the vegetables and keep aside. On a slow-fire, fry the Bhendi-okra (lady finger rings) after the pan is warm…add the oil evenly and sprinkle the garam masala…ADD the salt ONLY AFTER the flame has been turned off….maybe one day I might explain why this is so important…in my recipes where salt is concerned. Nicely stir them gently with spatula for ten minutes…do not let them burn. Now shove the lady-finger rings to the middle of the pan in a tight crowd…add tomato rings as shown, as well as the mint-leaves, capsicum, onion, carrot, tomatoes, pickle, chilly, karela, e.t.c Do not stir anymore….keep the flame at minimum and let the underside of the vegetables get fried/baked as we must not add any more oil…keep this on for five minutes….we just need a hint of a fry on the veggies underside…while the side-facing you remains raw. Sprinkle a pinch of turmeric powder on the karela rings. Turn of the flame…serve the pan as is to the dining-table straight onto a wooden bracket…after the pan has cooled a bit. As using a spatula to pour the contents will ruin our garnish design. Garnish and presentation is the primary appetizers ….visually, remember. Serve the dish with Koubous, hot bread, butter naan, roti, chapatti….try some limbu-paani as a drink to cool your tongue too. Note to the gourmet: hold the stem and nibble into the chilly in occasional controlled micro-bites to vary your taste experience… As you take a bit of this and a sip of that. Enjoy your meal. - Alienbaba

Author's Note

please...i am a new cook..
u can help if u want to
i would love you to

Reviews

[Holly Mason]

my girls and I went diamond mining yesterday...gotta love the energy from the stones they are amazing
then after we were invited to a BBQ and they served burdocks(spelling maybe off) I am a true southern girl that has moved to the north...they just went out into their filed yanked them out -a burdock is a weed that attaches to your clothing and makes a bit of a mess well they grabbed em deep fried em and wha-la interesting day in total dug in the earth and ate directly from the earth...have no idea why i just shared all of that with ya it felt good at the time*)
this recipe looks great ...
thank you for sharing truly

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

u been gone for a worrisome long time and i shore yam glad yer bak naw:) the excursion did ya good...yep the diamonds in the cole and all the nettles that stung to yer hair

[Tina Kline]

Sounds like you enjoy cooking. It is, after all, an art form. Reading this it sounds like the dish is a really
tasty one.

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

yes,,,even aliens love a good meal::)
mcdonalds originated on Mars did ya know it?

[Tina Kline]

No, I didn't know that.

[Muse]

well I just destroyed asparagus on the grill this evening...I should have asked for your advice first?

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

yes of course dear TCL...:) what r frends for

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Sounds tasty...I love food imagery. I would definitely like to experience some of these new and interesting flavors. A creative concept. My only suggestion would be in formatting...it's a little more like prose than poetry, which is fine. Also I would increase the font size to make it more easily readable. Off to have something to eat now!

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

ahhh u have given valuable suggestins...i will follow ur advice gladly thanku Sara:)

[Robbie~xoxo~]

This is an enticing recipe!...very exotic dish, and I will have to try it... the problem is, I may not find some of the ingredients. :(
Oh well, maybe I'll substitute... either way, this made me hungry! lol
Thank you for posting. :)

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

hunger is a wonderful feeling...Robbie...brings you close the to the one who matters...most:) Please try...please google..for English names for Indian spices and veggies....and tell me how it went...thankuuu

[Robbie~xoxo~]

I will, but I'm not the best cook! lol :D

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

oh...best is just a word...what matters is the appetite....more than that...the whetting...more than that...the cook's cutting

[Androglossia]

Honestly, makes me hungry although the names of some ingredients sound strange to me, I still think they're delicious. I liked mango, we have a lot of it in my country. Chapatti sounds interesting. I might do a research some other time. The photo is mouth watering:) I liked the effort you've put into this. Very creative:)

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

Thx Maryann...Chappati is a flat pancake of whaet flour baked on a flatpan. Not the same as a flapjack. Sometimes i get inspired...and i will be happy if u try the dish yourself...with alternative ingrediants by ythe looks of the foto.

[Shelina Shariff-Zia]

I don't like karela --but this poem tempted me to make your tantalizing recipe...definitely a different type of poem.

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

I am very happy u r going to try my recipe..i can assure you its worth it:) thx

[SyberRose]

Looks good and colorful...I saw you are allergic to garlic...im allergic to mango and shellfish...Whats worse than being allergic to shrimp my favorite food. Wasnt always allergic. Alot of work you did not just on the dish but writing the recipe.
You get 100 points for that dish.

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

You are very gracious ma'am!

[quinfinn]

it needs pressed garlic and cilantro....sounds extraordinarily yummy

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

Cilantro...i wonder what that is in our local equivalent...
i am allergic to garlic Quinn but i shall garnish ur portion...:)

[quinfinn]

it is universally known...too bad about the allergy. you were robbed!!! such a great embellishment to food....

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

oh...u think i am a vampire?

[quinfinn]

doubtful.....vampires are known for sucking. you don't!

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

erm...

[Frieda P]

Sound dull after the kimmers SOUP, add some fookin spice will ya?

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

huh?
whats this kimers soup recipe,..vera heard/..
is fookin a new company?
spices i know...

[Frieda P]

Just kidding with you, you'd have to read the kimmers recipe to get it! Looks good actually.

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

so wil u try this tonite?

[Frieda P]

No, that's too healthy, I need comfort tonight, like greasy pizza! ;-)

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

oh...that junk

[Frieda P]

It's not junk when you make it yourself...

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

make that make-it-yerself-junk

[Frieda P]

You messin with an Italiano here, tread lightly on my pizza! ;-P

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

U cant be Rizzoli...but then u r not Isles too ??

[Frieda P]

ha nope Rizzoli is too tall, and Isles is too sweet!

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

Uh-oh...but Hey ... doesn't Isles look exactly like our WC member friend Desert Dreamer?

[Frieda P]

I don't know who that is, but you thought I was Bette, so I'm not trusting your judgement!

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

know....search her on Wc and see fer yerself

[Frieda P]

She has blonde hair that's about it, I've only watched that show once or twice, so hard to say, I used to watch her on NCIS< I liked her character much better then, more moxy.

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

who is moxy

[Frieda P]

hah no one in particular, it means having more balls, being more gutsy...

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

now id like to see this alien with more than a pair

[Frieda P]

I think you have a head start so just go with it!! ;-P

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

Is that supposed to mean the same as ..."bloke..take a hike!"?

[Frieda P]

Ha...sometimes I think I need to speak another language to you....no. That means you already have the equipment.

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

equipment...she serously thinks im a miner

[Frieda P]

hahahahaha

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

hmmm...digging me an alternative shaft way down beyond em coal deposits

[Frieda P]

You build an alternative shaft, sounds like a plan....

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

plan...yes...unless i get crushed and get to become a crushed diamond in the coal