Vegetable Macaroni Mix

You will need these ingredients:

Macaroni (Elbow or shell) - 200 gms

Water - 3 cups

Cooking Oil - 2 tbsps

Carrot - 1 medium sized cut julienne

Beans - 4 to 5 cut julienne

Potato - 1 medium sized cut julienne

Peas - 1/4 cup

Baby corn - 3 cut into thin slices

Button Mushrooms - 4 cut into thin slices

Onion - 1 large sliced thin

Tomato Puree - 3 tbsps

Green Chillies - 4 slit in between

Red Chilly Powder - 1 tsp

Garam Masala Powder - 1/2 tsp

Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp

Mustard - 1 tsp

Salt - to taste

Method:

1. Heat water with salt in a big vessel and add in the macaroni. Cook the macaroni for about 8 to 10 minutes.

2. Drain the water from the macaroni and rub in a little oil.

3. Steam the carrots, beans, potatoes and baby corn until partly cooked.

4. Steam the peas separately until fully cooked.

5. Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan and crackle the mustard.

6. Add in the mushrooms and saute until the mushroom is partly cooked.

7. Add in the onion, the ginger garlic paste, salt and the chillies and saute until the raw smell goes.

8. Add in the partly cooked vegetables and the peas and mix well.

9. Add in the tomato puree and mix well. Keep stirring the mixture until the oil separates from the mixture.

10. Add the chilly powder, garam masala powder and more salt (only if necessary) and mix well.

11. Lower the flame and add the Macaroni into this mixture and mix it well until the macaroni is completely blended into the mixture.

12. Remove from flame. 

13. Serve Hot. 

Note: 

For a Non-veg twist, you can add about 2 to 3 chopped sausages/salami into the mix before adding in the macaroni.