Vermicelli is a dry thin wheat noodles used for making kheer, upma. This is my mothers recipe and my favorite veggie and noodle combination.
So here is the recipe
Ingredients
Vermicelli 2 cups (dry roasted untill light golden brown colour)
Vegetables like carrot, peas, lima beans, snowpeas, onion, chayote squash, green bell pepper mixed all togehter about 1 cup.
For Grinding Cilantro/corriender leaves few, poppy seeds (white) 2 tsp, coconut 2 tsp, Roasted channa dal or dalia 2 tbsp, few chillies and small peice of ginger.
cloves and cinammon few.
Salt to taste.
Method
- Dry roast the vermicilli untill its light brown colour.
- Chop/ cut all the veggies to bit size peices.
- Grind above ingredients together using enough water to make a smooth paste.
Heat 2 tsp of oil in a thick bottomed skillet add mustard when its hot.
Then add veggies saute it for few minutes untill little soft.
Next add the griend paste add about 4 cups of water. I used 1:2 ratio (1 cup noodles to 2 cups of water)
Add salt adjust taste, when it come to boil add roasted vermicelli mixe well.
Cover with a lid and simmmer it down on low heat and leave it for 12-15 min. After that mix well, close and leave it like that untill serving.
* It can also be done in pressure cooker, use less water and switch off after one whistel. and cook on medium heat.
