Corn Delight

Description

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Corn Delight

Ingredients

• Fresh corn Ears - Two
• tofu - one pack or 200/250 gm.
• Palak or spinach - 100/150 gm.
• Suffola/olive oil or any low-fat oil - quarter teaspoon
• mustard - half a teaspoon
• ginger/garlic (recommended) - 1 teaspoon paste form
• Coriander (Dhaniya) powder- half a teaspoon
• chilli powder - half a teaspoon, or green chillies (one)
• tomatoes - one, large-sized, or two small sized
• onions - one, small sized
• asafoetida - a pinch
• turmeric powder - quarter teaspoon
• salt - quarter teaspoon

Directions

• Extract the fresh corn from the ears - remove the silk and use the knife to literally slice the corn off the ear (it is easier than trying to extract it by your fingers)
• Slice the tofu into small pieces
• Chop the onions and tomatoes
• Prepare the ginger/garlic paste or use readymade paste
• Chop the palak or spinach and cook it for 5–7 minutes
• Run the cooked palak/spinach in a blender/mixer or grind it to create fine paste
• Pour (if quarter teaspoon can be poured!) the oil into a pan and heat it
• Add mustard and split it
• Add asafoetida
• Add chilli powder, turmeric powder and dhaniya powder
• Add ginger/garlic paste
• Add Onion and tomatoes
• Stir the mix together for about half a minute
• Add the extracted corn and stir for two minutes
• Add salt and stir
• Add sliced tofu and stir very carefully for half a minute
• Close the pan with a lid and let it fry for two minutes
• Remove the lid and stir carefully again for about ten seconds