Vegetable mix

I like those chinese types of vegetables - the one with a thick corn flour gravy and cauliflower, capsicum and onion in it. But whenever I cook it at home, there is always some kind of harsh smell of capsicum and onion which does not arise from a resturant one made dish. How can I check that? Any idea?

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fry them lightly before adding them to the rest of the vegetables

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Thanks for the tip. But frying is a sheer wastage of oil which is becoming quite expensive these days.

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^ chalo koi nai... lard mein fry kar lo :)

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At what point do you add the capsicum and onions?

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Everything altogether. I also tried to blend them - spring onion, ginger, garlic, capciscum, tomatoes etc but still they are harsh in smell.

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What is that?

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why fry when u can stema

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but u r not fyring in lots of oil... just one tablespoon or so or depends on the quantity of onion and capsicum... khair

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yeah i think yourfriend means saute them seperately in a teaspoon of oil on high heat and then add them later.

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I add capsicum towards the end and if I am using white onions then at the same time as capsicum. Then the cornflour sauce after few mins. And turn off the heat and add spring onions.

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Lighting a candle may solve your problem....

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Thanks. Will try this on coming Sunday.

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^^ OK so what time I come on sunday??:)

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You know I cooked the vegetable soup you told Code-Red. I had same problem with that although it was very tasty. I also put some turnip that made the suop quite red.

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You can actually do without capsicum in that soup...my daughter dont like capsicum in soup so instead of always picking them out for her, I just make without capsicum. You can use french beans or broccoli or snowpeas for the green effect. Turnips we get are white so not sure how it became red...or perhaps you used beetroot (which are kind of red turnips) Thats really an acquired taste and yeah really red!

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Oh sorry that was beet root!

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Somebody's face now as red as beetroot :D