Noodles is a favorite dish of almost everyone. Apart from instant noodles, there are a variety of noodles dishes. You can eat noodles in any meal. There are some dishes which are different from the usual noodles that we eat. You may have seen these noodles dishes in eateries. The recipes of noodles need ingredients which are easily available at home. You can cook yummy noodles dishes at home and enjoy them.
Masala Noodles
This is a tasty and spicy noodles dish. It is a combination of Indian and Chinese cuisine.
Ingredients –
- Noodles – 2 packets of 100 gram
- Water – As needed for boiling noodles
- Oil – As needed for boiling and frying noodles
- Salt – According to taste
- Garlic – Few cloves
- Onion – Half
- Chili – 1 or 2
- Vegetables – 2 cups
- Tomato sauce – 1 tablespoon
- Chili sauce – 1 tablespoon
- Pepper powder – Half teaspoon
- Turmeric powder – Half teaspoon
- Chili powder – Half teaspoon
- Cumin powder – Half teaspoon
- Garam Masala – Half teaspoon
Method –
- For vegetables, I had used carrot, cabbage, beans and peas. You can also use capsicum and spring onion if you have.
- Chop onion, garlic, chili and all the vegetables finely.
- Heat a large pan and boil water in it. The water should be sufficient for boiling all the noodles. Then add little oil and salt to boiling water.
- Put noodles to it and stir continuously. After it gets cooked completely, drain off the water. Rinse the noodles with cold water and keep it aside.
- Heat a pan and put oil to it. The oil should be sufficient for frying all the ingredients. Put onion, chili and garlic to it.
- Fry till the raw smell disappears. Then add all the vegetables to it and fry well. The vegetables must get cooked yet remain crunchy.
- Then add salt, pepper powder, turmeric powder, chili powder, cumin powder and garam masala to it. Mix very well.
- Add chili sauce and tomato sauce to it and mix. If you feel that the ingredients are sticking to the pan, then put little water.
- Make sure that all the ingredients have combined well. Then add boiled noodles to it. Mix properly so that all noodles get coated with the spices and sauces.
- Cook till noodles mix with other ingredients. Serve it hot.
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It is a delicious dish of fried noodles with gravy. The time taken to prepare this is more but its taste is worth the time.
Ingredients –
- Noodles – 2 packets of 100g
- Water – As needed for boiling noodles, making slurry and for making gravy
- Oil – As needed for boiling and frying noodles, making gravy
- Salt – According to taste
- Cornflour – 2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons
- Garlic – Few cloves
- Onion – Half
- Chili – 1 or 2
- Carrot – 1
- Capsicum – 1
- Cabbage – Half
- Tomato sauce – 2 tablespoons
- Chili sauce – 1 tablespoon
- Pepper powder – Half teaspoon
Method –
- Heat a large pan and boil water in it. The water should be sufficient for boiling all the noodles. Then add little oil and salt to boiling water.
- Put noodles to it and stir continuously. After it gets cooked completely, drain off the water. Rinse the noodles with cold water and keep it aside.
- Take a large mixing vessel and put 2 tablespoons Cornflour to it. Then put all the boiled noodles in it and mix well so that Cornflour coats noodles.
- Make round shaped flat portions of noodles. Try to make all the noodles portions of similar size. Heat a pan and put sufficient oil to it.
- Fry the noodle portions one by one. They must be fried evenly on both the sides and slightly brown. Then keep all the noodles portions aside.
- Chop garlic, chili and cabbage finely. Cut onion, capsicum and carrot in small cubes.
- Take a small mixing bowl and put 2 teaspoons Cornflour and little water in it. Mix well to form slurry. Make sure there is no lump in the slurry.
- Heat a pan and put oil to it. The oil should be sufficient for frying all the ingredients. Put onion, chili and garlic to it. Fry till the raw smell disappears.
- Then add carrot, capsicum and cabbage one by one and fry well. The vegetables must get cooked yet remain crunchy. Put salt and pepper powder to it.
- Add chili sauce and tomato sauce to it and mix well. Then put slurry to the pan and mix. Cook till the mixture turns glossy and then add some water to it.
- Stir continuously and let the mixture boil. Cook till all the ingredients have combined and gravy becomes thick.
- Serve it hot along with portions of fried noodles.
Noodles Cutlet
This is a lip-smacking dish of noodles which makes a good snack. You can eat this with any ketchup or sauce.
Ingredients –
- Noodles – 1 packet of 100g
- Water – As needed for boiling noodles and making batter
- Oil – As needed for boiling and frying cutlets
- Salt – According to taste
- Potato – 2 larges
- Chili – 1 or 2
- Maggi Masala e Magic – 1 packet
- Chili powder – Half teaspoon
- Chaat masala – Half teaspoon
- Pepper powder – Half teaspoon
- Maida (Refined flour or Plain flour) – 1 cup
- Garlic – Few cloves
Method –
- Heat a large pan and boil water in it. The water should be sufficient for boiling all the noodles. Then add little oil and salt to boiling water.
- Put noodles to it and stir continuously. After it gets cooked completely, drain off the water. Rinse the noodles with cold water and keep it aside.
- If you do not have Maggi Masala e Magic then you can use any other masala instead of it. Any Chowmein or Pasta masala can also be used.
- Boil potatoes, chop chili and garlic finely. Take a large mixing bowl and put potatoes in it. Mash them properly. Then add boiled noodles to it.
- Put chili, salt, Maggi Masala e Magic, chili powder and chaat masala to it. Mix everything very well without mashing the noodles.
- Make sure that all the ingredients have combined well. Then grease your hands with oil and make ball sized patties from the prepared dough.
- Take a mixing bowl and put Maida, pepper powder and water to it. Mix well so that there is no lump. Check the consistency of this Maida paste. The batter should neither be too thick nor too thin.
- Heat a pan and put sufficient oil to it. Dip the patties in Maida paste and make sure all sides have been coated with batter.
- Fry them in batches till they turn crisp and brown. Remove from pan after they get fried uniformly. Serve them hot.