Mushroom Chilli Garlic - tasty stir fry with very few ingredients .

Mushroom Chilli Garlic - to curb your chinese food taste buds , but without any soya sauce or MSG added!

Quantity - for 2 people dinner

Ingredients -

Button Mushrooms - 20/25 (can use any variety of mushrooms)
Green Pepper/Capsicum - 1 medium size 
Onion - 1 small (optional)
Whole red chillies - 6/7 
Kashmiri Chilli -1/2
Garlic pods - 6/7
Red chilli powder - 1 tbsp
Peanut oil - for cooking 
Hing - to temper
Haldi - a pinch
Salt - as per taste
Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp or a pinch (secret ingredient)

Procedure - 

1. Firstly , we need to make chilli garlic sauce . For that , soak whole red chillies in warm water for atleast 3/4 hours .
2. Cut garlic pods roughly and then grind them with soaked chillies and fennel . You can use little water (same water used to soak chillies) while grinding . Grind nicely into a smooth paste of chilli garlic .
3. Heat oil in a kadai . While oil is getting hot , ensure you have cut onions , green pepper and mushrooms into nice medium cubes . Wash mushrooms before you cut them . 
4. Once oil is hot , add haldi and hing and then add the prepared chilli garlic paste . Cook it nicely for 3/4 mins and you will see oil start separating . Add little salt and let it cook for couple more mins.
5. Next add onions and green pepper and let them cook well . Do not cover the kadai at any point . This will make entire dish soggy due to water content in all of these veggies . Once pepper and onions are nicely fried , add cut mushrooms . 
6. Adjust any salt needed , add red chilli powder and stir everything well . Keep flames medium high and keep stirring . 
7 . After about 10 mins , everything will be nicely cooked . 

Serve hot with phulka/roti or you can also cook some noodles and top them with this stir fry :)

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