Mushroom Pepper Stir Fry

INGREDIENTS:

• Onion (diced) - 1 small
• Capsicum (diced) -1 no
• Baby bella mushroom - 2 cup
• Garlic (crushed) - 3 pod
• Pepper powder - 1 tsp
• Gingely oil - 2 tbsp
• Soy Sauce - 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Clean and cut each mushroom into half and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a pan.
• Add onion and garlic into it and saute for a minute.
• Add mushroom and salt into it and mix well.
• Let it cook for 5 minutes in medium heat.
• Add bell pepper into it and mix well.
• Cook all the ingredients together  for another 2 minutes (until soft and cooked, do not over cook the bell pepper).
• Add pepper powder and soy sauce and stir well.
• Cook for a minute and remove from fire and serve.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with rice / chappathi.

Mango Halwa

This is a simple, tasty and easy recipe of mango halwa.

INGREDIENTS:

• Mango pulp - 2 cup (from 4 ripe alphonso mango)
• Sugar - 1- 1¼  cup (according to your taste)
• Corn starch - ½ cup
• Ghee - 3 tsbp
• Cashew nuts - 10 nos
• Almonds - 10 nos
• Cardamom Powder - 2 pinch

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Dilute the corn starch with ½ cup of water and keep aside.
• Heat a heavy bottomed pan and add little ghee and lightly roast cashew nut and almond.
• Remove the roasted nuts from ghee and let it cool.
• Crush the nuts and keep it aside.
• Add the remaining ghee into the pan.
• Add mango pulp into it and stir continuously.
• Let it boil in medium heat.
• Add sugar into it and stir continuously for 2 minutes.
• Gradually add corn starch mix into it and stir continuosly (to avoid making lumps).
• Add cardamon powder and chopped nuts and stir well.
• Stir continuously for 40-45 minutes, the mixture will change the colour and reduce in quantity.
• When the mixture begin to come from the side of the pan, transfer it into a greased plate.
• Let it cool for about 2 hours and cut them into desired shape and  serve.