Oct 22
This one needs a bit of planning, but its really mouth wateringly tasty! (of course 
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Get yourself 1-2 big lettuces, and carefully separate out the leaves. Each leaf should be nice and big. Wash the leaves carefully, put them in a bowl and refrigerate them. They need to stay in the fridge for about 1-2 hours so they are nice and crispy and cold when its time to eat…
Put a little more than half a packet of soya chunks (remove them from the packet first ) in water and boil them until cooked. Drain the water and squeeze the chunks dry.
Cut up some veggies of your choice into small chunks, (i used broccoli, zucchini, french beans, carrots, spinach and mushrooms) in whatever proportions you like… Heat up a vessel of water to boiling and put the veggies that need heavy cooking (mushrooms, spinach and zucchini don’t) in a sieve and dunk them in the hot water for a few minutes to partly cook them. Alternatively you could steam the veggies…
To steam the veggies, put them in a sieve above a vessel with boiling water in it, and let the steam cook them… takes just a few minutes and is an extremely healthy way to cook veggies.
Heat up a good amount of ghee in a pan, add a tablespoon of grated fresh ginger, a tablespoon of garam masala and 2 tablespoons of dhania Jeera powder. You could also add some garlic paste if you wish. Roast and cook the masalas well. Now add the squeezed soya chunks to it and let cook and absorb all the masalas. Add salt to taste.If you want to make it richer add some butter.
Next add the steamed or partly cooked veggies and let them absorb the masalas, don’t overcook, the veggies should retain their colour and crispiness. Finally add the spinach, mushrooms and zuchinni and leave on the heat for about 3 minutes more.
Spoon a decent amount of the piping hot veggie mixture onto the crisp cold lettuce leaf. Gently fold it over the veggies and eat immediately!
The recipe above makes the mixture indian style, it could be made chinese style by replacing the masalas with soya sauce and some ginger garlic chilly paste. Basically, the veggies need to be in utter contrast to the coolness of the lettuce…
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa
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my mouth started watering bau….u were rite….looks so tasty….
wil cook it rite now….
jgd….
deliciously mouth wateringly yummy
umm it is so yummy a recipe and the discription of the recipee is lotss more yummmyyy, so would cook it today or two. An exicting combination of lovely lettuce cool , hotty veggies stirr fry soya… ummm
yummy yummy …
would have a feel of the subtle u expressed through the discription through … through out the cooking and relishing through , with the whole family sharing the joy of the subtle u …
love u
Sense of taste is already giving me a lot of pain nowadays n your recipes add to that.
Jai Gurudeva:)
What a healthful treat!
Will make it this Diwali …
Jai Gurudev!!!
I loved it…it was awesome…i normally don’t eat mock meat…when i see it i am like ewwwwwww…
but this one was so tasty…i am so glad that i saw the whole preparation…will make it myself for sure….
u r too good bau…..love you
JGD Bawa
, i vote this as your best recipe till date. 
It’s simply awesome. Has all my fav indgredients in it .
Will surely make it in my diwali break when i go home.
Nice one bawa.. this one goes for the dinner tonite along with Baingan Sifazi that I just learnt..
Honestly Bau the second pic could have been better..
Anyway thanx..
Jaigurudev..
You had asked about fave links..
I would read anything u write and cook whatever u suggest..
he bau…..this recipie seems too be really yamiiiiiiiiiii……will try its chiness version tomorrow itself…….love you
I am sure its gonna be delicious
Will try the day after tomorrow. It shall be perfect treat the day after Ekadashi fast i.e. yesterday.
Jai Guru Dev
Bau,
This is a wonderful recipe. I will surely try this one out. Your Blog has become a must go to daily
Finally!! I cooked it 3 days back. At 12 in the night my bro and I were cooking it!! Hilarious it turned out to be. I started it the Chinese style ended up adding some spices but the true blooper came in when too much of the stuffing remained and my bro and I ended up eating it with curd rice!! (He relished it anyway)
i still remember having lettuce wrap with ya at P.F.Chang’s, more than 2 years ago. i heard you are planning to come here in 2009. can’t wait.
loving you and missing you.
Just wanted to say HI. I found your blog a few days ago on Technorati and have been reading it over the past few days.