Mushroom Masala

                               Mushroom Masala

I always believe that vegetarian dishes are so boring. What all choices do you have apart from Paneer? Vegetarians must thank that “French melon grower” who discovered the first edible kind of Mushroom in the mid-seventeenth century. Mushrooms are delicious and have health benefits too. Be it soups, pizza or any continental dish, you will always find Mushrooms as a popular option. But, we Indians like to do things our way. So, we started making Mushrooms dishes our way. Mushroom curries, Mushroom Masala and so on. Now Mushroom has become a popular special dish in restaurants as well as in the home.

Enough of this trivia, let’s get on to the dish. Let me be honest with you, I am a complete novice when it comes down to cook vegetarian dishes. So, I needed an expert to pull this thing off. All thanks to my Special friend who was generous enough to share this recipe with me.

Ingredients:

• 20 Fresh or Canned Mushrooms.

• 3-4 medium sized onions.

• 3-4 medium sized tomatoes.

• 3-4 Teaspoon Ginger-Garlic paste.

• Refined oil as per requirement.

• 1 small pack of Amul fresh cream.

• Kitchen King Masala.

• Chili Powder.

• Kasoori Methi.

• Salt to taste.

Procedure:

• Take the onions and make a thick paste of it and do the same thing for the tomatoes (The paste will provide the thick gravy).

Onion Paste

Tomato Paste

• Cut the Mushrooms in 4 halves.

• Put the Mushrooms in boiling water with a little bit of salt. (This will help you to wash away the dirt inside the Mushrooms. In case of canned Mushrooms, the boiling of them will help you to get rid of the preservative smell of brine solution). Keep boiling for 10 minutes.

• After Mushrooms are boiled then drain the water.

Mushrooms after boiling in the water!!

• Take a frying pan or wok. Add little bit of oil. When the oil is heated add the Mushrooms in it. Add a bit of a salt to it.

Frying of Mushrooms

• Press the Mushrooms with the ladle to remove the extra moisture from Mushrooms.

• Heat the wok and add oil as per requirement.

Add oil as per your requirement!!

• When the oil is heated add the onion paste in it. Sauté it till the oil gets separated.

Make sure that you don't overcook the onions!!

• Add tomato paste after this. Stir again till oil separates.

• Add ginger garlic paste to the mixture. Sauté till oil separates.

Ginger Garlic Paste.

Note:  The onion, tomato, and ginger garlic paste should not be overcooked. Just cook them until they are golden in color. Don’t let them turn brown.

• Add 2 big Spoon of Kitchen King Masala, chili powder, and salt as per taste in a bowl. Make a paste of it by pouring some water.

Make a paste of the masalas mentioned above.

• Add this paste to the wok. Don’t stir much. Kitchen king Masala doesn’t need to be cooked.

• Add the fried Mushrooms in the mixture.

• Add water to the wok as required. Go easy while adding the water. You don’t want the gravy to be watery. Thick gravy always win J

• Let the mixture boil for a while.

This much of water will do!!

• Take Amul fresh cream in a bowl. Add a pinch of sugar to it. Whip the mixture.

Amul Fresh Cream. Easily available at any grocery store.

• Add the whipped cream to the gravy. Let it boil for once.

• As soon as first boil come, turn the flame off. Don’t over boil it. As it is milk, it might separate being added to the salty dish.

• Add Kasuri Methi for Aroma.

• Put the lid on. This will help the aroma of Kasuri Methi to be absorbed into the gravy.

Voila!!! You are done. It tastes equally good as it looks.

                                 

                                   Enjoy this with Hot Tawa Roti. Thank me laterJ