Rainbow Vegetables with Soy – Chilly Sauce
This is a rainbow dish, Korean style of different cooked vegetables served with a simple spicy sauce. It’s usually best to make it for 4 people or more since there are many different items making one dish.
Ingredients
- 500 gms spinach
- 1 yellow capsicum
- 1 red capsicum
- 1 radish
- 1 carrot
- 200 gms button mushrooms
- 1 medium brinjal
- 250 gms broccoli
- 6 – 8 cloves garlic, ground
- 1 spring onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon powdered peanut or cashew
- 3 – 4 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp roasted sesame seeds
For the sauce
- 2 tsp Kashmiri chilly powder
- 1 tbsp vinegar
- 1 clove garlic
- ¼ medium onion
- juice of 1/2 lime
- 1 tsp date paste
- ¼ tsp roasted sesame
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
Method
Spinach: Wash. Blanche the spinach by first steaming and then placing in ice water. Drain. Rub the spinach with garlic, salt, roasted sesame and the nut powder. Top with a few roasted white sesame seeds.
Yellow capsicum: Slice and steam. Mix with 1/8 tsp of salt and a little water in a pan. Top with a few roasted black sesame seed.
Red capsicum: Slice and steam. Mix with 1/8 tsp salt, a few drops oil and a little water in a fan. Top with a few roasted black sesame seed.
Radish : Julienne and steam with 1/8 tsp salt, mix with a little water and the nut powder in a pan. Top with a few roasted black sesame seed.
Carrot: Julienne and steam with 1/8 tsp salt, mix with a few drops oil and a little water in a pan. Top with a few roasted black sesame seeds.
Mushroom: Slice and steam with soy sauce and garlic and in a fan. Top with a few roasted white sesame seeds.
Brinjal: Silce and steam in a steamer. Rub the brinjal with garlic, salt, roasted sesame oil and the nut powder. Top with a few roasted white sesame seeds.
Broccoli: Break into florets and steam in a steamer. Rub with garlic, salt and the nut powder. Top with a few roasted white sesame seeds.
The sauce: Blend the ingredients together and place in a bowl with the dish
Arrange the vegetables in a round platter one by one with contrasting colors next to each other. Serve this beautiful rainbow dish with the sauce.
Serves 4
Variations: use vegetables of your choice using similar principles making sure you have a good variety of colors.