Mix Vegetable Subji / Stir fry with Mushrooms, Red radish, Green beans and Green Peas - Flavored with Home made Spice Blend.

Weekend subji is cooked with more relaxed mood and healthier approach. In a fridge I  had a pack of fresh mushrooms, red radishes and green beans. I decided to make mix vegetable subji with freshly ground mild spice blend. This is my first recipe post for year 2012. Looking forward to share variety of recipes this year and at the same time few unpublished recipes/ nature related posts will be published with back date. I am thankful to all my followers, readers and unknown souls who visit through search engine results. Wishing you all a wonderful Happy and Healthy new year. 

Ingredients :-

• 2 cup green beans - cut into french style
• 1 cup Red radish - sliced in round shapes
• 1/2  cup Red radish - chopped in small pieces
• 10-12 mushrooms 
• 3/4 Cup frozen green peas
• 1 onion medium size - sliced lengthwise
• 1.5 inch piece of ginger - coarsely crushed.
• 3-5 green chillies - finely chopped
• 1/2 T.spoon - turmeric powder
• 1 cup - fresh chopped cilantro

Spice blend :-

• 1 Tb.spoon - corrainder seeds
• 1 Teaspoon - fennel seeds
• 1/2 Teaspoon - shahijeera
• 1 Bay leaf - tiny 1-inch long
• 2 cloves
• 1 cardamom

Put all above spices into small grinder jar and grind to a fine powder.

Fresh Mushrooms, Red radish and Green beans

Everyday Indian meal - Bhaji Poli (vegetable stir fry and Roti)

Method to Cook Mix subji / Indian style Mix Vegetable Stir Fry

1. Slice off both the ends of red radishes. Make thin round slices and partly cut into pieces. I used around 8-10 red radishes. Refer *[Pic-A]. Cut Green beans in french style. Cut each mushroom into 2 or 4 pieces depending on the size.
2. Crush ginger and green chilies into coarse dry mixture.
3. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a heavy bottomed saute pan, add sliced onions - stir fry for 6-7 minutes on a medium heat. Add ginger+green chili mixture, saute for one minute. Now add 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder, spice blend, save 1 teaspoon for later step. Mix and saute for 2-3 minutes on medium low heat. Sprinkle water if mixture gets too dry.
4. Now add green beans and  chopped pieces of red radish *[Pic-A] (round slices to be added later) mix well with onion-spice mixture, sprinkle very little salt -  stir fry on high heat for 2-3 minutes. Reduce heat to medium, add half a cup water, cover with lid and simmer for 6-7 minutes. Stir at some interval.
5. Add mushrooms and red radish round slices,*[Pic-B] some more salt, 1 teaspoon reserved spice blend and few chopped cilantro leaves. Stir to combine all, saute for 3-4 minutes. Add 1/4  cup water. Cover the lid and cook for 4-5 minutes over medium heat. Make sure there is enough moisture in the saute pan, stir at some interval.
6. Lastly add 3/4  cup frozen green peas, Mix and cook on low heat without lid for 3-4 minutes. Once green peas are tender and excess water has evaporated, shut off the heat. Sprinkle and mix remaining chopped cilantro. Serve hot with rice and chapati/roti.

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Sabji with extra  thick rolled roti.

Mushroom  sabzi with green beans, red radish & Matar.

Five Day life cycle of Parasol mushroom growing in the backyard. [ Summer 2011 Lawn mushroom pictures. Post - 2 ]

Summer 2011 has been wonderful  year for mushroom growth in Cary, NC.  I have already posted Puffball mushroom images earlier. This Parasol mushroom was growing near my patio in the lawn, just 15 ft away from home so it was easy to observe it growing every day. I spotted it on 23rd Sept  and clicked until it dried and withered away on 27th September. Enjoy viewing beautiful life form of Parasol mushroom.

 I spotted pair of  Parasol mushroom.

 (Macrolepiota procera)[1st Day] ..23rd Sept-2011]

[1st Day] - One more picture from another angle.

[2nd Day]...[24th Sept-2011]

one more picture. [ Day -2 ]

[ Day -3]....25th Sept -2011]

Mushroom shrivelled up ..[Day-4] [26th Sept-2011]

Mushroom withered away. [ Day-5 ] [27th Sept -2011]

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This is little different than above  Parasol Mushroom 
(Lepiota procera)
 still to open fully. [27th Sept, 2011]

Above mushroom next day. (28th Sept, 2011)

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 Some random single mushroom (10/01/2011)

Above mushroom after five days...(10/06/2011)

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PuffBall Mushroom break out around home. (Summer 2011 lawn Mushroom pictures. Post-1)

Now summer is getting milder,  we have cooler temperatures since last two weeks and  since last 3-4 days we are enjoying beautiful rainy weather. Good rainy summer always brings out break of lawn/ yard mushrooms and this year it seems weather is more  cozy for mushroom growth in  Cary,NC. Yesterday  early morning I spotted beautiful Puffball/ Earthball / Pigskin poison puffball mushroom and amazingly  it was very different with beautiful  Giraffe and Snake skin like design. Its light brown color glow against green weed background looked very attractive. Scientific name for puffball mushroom is  Scleroderma Citrinum. It takes just few hours to pop up  those mushrooms from ground. I took less than one hour stroll around home to enjoy and click all  those  mushroom pictures.  Late summer and fall  is the season of puffball mushrooms in America. Since last one month several google queries reached blog searching for puffball mushroom and interestingly many queries came from Ohio region. Here is my last years post on Backyard mushrooms. (Link). I will be making one more post to share other types of summer mushrooms. Enjoy the photos.

Pigskin poison puffball  seen on - 22nd sept...morning. (1)

same above one from another angle...(1)

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Rainy  weather .... Sunset clicked on 23rd September.

This one was the biggest (5" in diameter) puffball . (5)

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Above mushroom started  decaying in just  two days. (clicked on 26th sept)

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May be some Bird tried to taste this puffball mushroom.(8)

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Following three pictures were  taken on 13th Sept. 

These puffballs were a bit unhealthy/ dry due to dry weather. (9)

You can see cracked mushroom skin. These are seasons first spotted puffball mushrooms.

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After ten days puffball mushroom breaks and spreads brown color dust/fine power around.
Above mushroom (9) turned into powder after 10 days.

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(11) Following mushrooms clicked today morning around 8 am.- 26th Sept.

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Just rose up from ground few hours back.(13)

A unique puffball  with wrinkled skin. (14)

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Lawn and Backyard grown Mushrooms captured during Spring-Summer - 2010

I live in a small townhome surrounded with small size lawn and wooded patch. It is wonderful  healing experience to live so close to the nature. Every year around spring season variety of  mushrooms pop up after good rainfall...This year we had very poor rain fall and we are facing drought conditions. Since spring following  two three varieties of mushrooms were spotted  in lawn and around the home....Enjoy the pictures.

Mushrooms Spotted during First week of June in mulch.

PuffBall mushroom found on grass during first week of October.

Above PuffBall mushroom from side angle.

Above PuffBall mushroom from front side.

Smaller size puffBall mushrooms.

PuffBall Mushroom with early morning dew drops.

Mushroom cropped by Squirrel - spotted during mid-October.

Above type of mushroom yet to fully bloom