Stir Fry Vegetables with Hard Boiled Eggs
Have as a meal ( check with your nutritionist on portions specific to you)
or use it as a sandwich stuffing or a roll stuffing.
I like to eat this with just a slice of toast for breakfast too.
Ingredients
- 4 hard boiled eggs or 100 gms paneer cubes
- 1 red capsicum cut in thin strips
- 1/2 green capsicum cut in thin strips
- 1 1/2 carrots cut into thin strips like matchstick
- 1 big onion sliced
- 2 tsp full chopped garlic
- Few green chillies cut into 2
- 2-3 whole dry red chillies broken into pieces
- 1 tsp dark soya /
- 1/2 tsp of oyster sauce
- 2 tsp light soya sauce
- 1 tsp cornflour
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 2-3 tbsp of oil
Method
- In a bowl add the cornflour, dark soya/oyster sauce, light soya sauce, sugar, pepper and salt. Add 5 to 6 tbsp of water and mix well and keep aside
- Boil and peel the eggs (if using)
- In a pan warm 2 tsp of oil
- Add the whole eggs and stir fry it so that the skin of the egg turns little brown. Remove from the pan and cut each egg into 4 vertical pieces and keep aside
- In the same pan, add the chopped garlic and stir fry for a minute or so till the edges start to turn brown
- Add the sliced onions, and stir fry for few seconds then add in the cut whole dry red chillies and stir fry for few seconds
- Add the cut carrots and stir fry for a minute or so
- Add the cut green chillies and stir fry for few seconds
- Add the cut bell peppers and stir fry for few minutes
- Cook on high flame moving quickly to ensure the vegetables remain crunchy
- Now add the cornflour mixture to the vegetables and stir it in well
- The vegetables should have have a slight coating of the sauce
- Taste and check for salt
- Add the eggs (or paneer) gently and cover with the vegetables
- Serve with plain rice/ fried rice
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