Serves: 6

Ingredients:

• 200 g carrots
• 200g cabbage
• 200g French beans (haricot)
• 1 big onion
• 4 cloves garlic or 1tbsp garlic paste
• 50g ginger or 1tbsp ginger paste
• 5 green chillies
• 1tsp black mustard seeds
• 1tsp turmeric powder (saffron)
• 10tbsp Vegetable Oil [ preferably mustard oil ]
• 2tbsp Vinegar
• Salt

Preparation

1. Peel and then cut carrots into matchsticks.
2. Finely slice the cabbage.
3. Cut the French beans lengthwise.
4. Finely chop the onion.
5. Crush/dice the garlic cloves and the ginger.
6. De-seed and cut the chillies lengthwise.

Cooking

1. Blanch the carrots, cabbage, French beans. Then allow to dry.
2. Blend mustard seeds, turmeric powder and ginger with garlic and a little water to make a thick paste.
3. Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the onion for 30seconds or until it become translucent.
4. Then, add the mustard/turmeric/ginger/garlic paste and some salt. Stir fry for one minute until cooked.
5. Add the blanched vegetables (carrots, cabbage, French beans) and stir fry them for 2 minutes without breaking them ensuring that they are well coated with the paste.
6. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
7. When it reaches room temperature, add the vinegar and stir.
8. Store in refrigerator.

Serving

• Enjoy as appetizer.
• Serve with rice.
  
• In white bread rolls.
• As accompaniment in a dish.

Other Possibilities

Some people like to add these some extra vegetables which are:

• 200g cauliflower separated into small flowerets.

While cooking add them at step 1.

Note

• This recipe taste better when it is prepared and kept in the fridge for one whole day.
• Some people allow the vegetable to dry in the sun for half a day after blanching. This extracts maximum water from the vegetables, making it tastes better and lasts longer. (up to three weeks in the refrigerator)

SUGGESTIONS: Have you tried this recipe? Did you like it? Do you have any suggestions to make it better? Do you know any extra ingredient(s) which will enhance its flavour? If so… please do add a comment and tell us about it. Thanks a lot.