Vegetable Au Gratin (With a healthy twist!)

Vegetable Au Gratin is usually fully packed with cheese but here is an interesting healthy version to it, which I came across in Nita Mehta's diet recipes book, where the white sauce is made without fat! 

INGREDIENTS:

• Peas - 1/4 cup
• Carrots - 2 small sized
• Beans - 10
• Cauliflower florets - 1 cup
• Tomato ketchup - 1 Tsp

For the sauce:

• Whole wheat flour - 2 Tbsp
• Milk - 2 cups
• Freshly chopped coriander leaves - 2 Tbsp
• Salt - 1/2 Tsp
• Pepper - 1/2 Tsp
• Red chilli flakes - 1/2 Tsp
• Oregano - 1 Tsp

METHOD:

1. Chop beans and carrots into small cubes and cauliflower into small florets
2. Wash all vegetables, remove water and put them directly into a pressure cooker
3. Add 1/4 cup of water, 1/2 Tsp salt and mix well
4. Pressure cook till just before the whistle is about to blow
5. Mix all the ingredients for the sauce in a pan and boil them stirring continuously. When the milk starts to boil, reduce the flame and continue cooking for 5 more minutes
6. When the mixture becomes thick, add the vegetables and cooke for 2 more minutes on a low flame, stirring continuously. Remove from fire
7. Add the tomato ketchup and mix well. Taste and add more salt as per your taste
8. Grease a glass baking dish and pour the prepared vegetable mixture into it
9. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200C for 20 minutes till it browns on the top