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Veg Manchurian

Veg Manchurian is a tasty snack dish from Indo-Chinese cuisine. It is usually served as a starter.

Ingredients

  • For the balls:
  • 1 onion
  • 2 carrot grated
  • 1/2 head cauliflower
  • 2 potato peeled and grated
  • 10 beans
  • 1/2 capsicum
  • 1/2 tsp pepper powder
  • salt
  • 1.5 tbsp cornflour
  • 1.5 tbsp maida
  • For the manchurian sauce:
  • 1 tbsp tomato sauce
  • 1/2 tbsp soya sauce
  • 1.5 tbsp red chilli sauce
  • 1/2 tsp vinegar
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
  • 2 tbsp water
  • oil
  • 6 cloves garlic
  • 1 inch ginger
  • 1/2 capsicum
  • 1 onion

Instructions

  • To make the balls :
  • Cut the cauliflower florets and put them in water with a little salt and turmeric. After ten minutes, remove it, put  in a colander for sometime and grate it.
  • Chop the onion finely.
  • Grate the carrot.
  • Peel the potato and grate it. Put it in water to avoid discolouration.
  • Cut beans and capsicum into small bits.
  • In a bowl, add all the vegetables, salt, pepper powder, cornflour, maida and mix them together to form a dough like substance. If the mixture is dry, use little water.
  • Heat oil in a pan, take a small quantity of the mixture and shape into a ball.
  • Once the oil is hot, add a few balls and deep fry on medium heat until golden in colour. Keep tossing them in between with the slotted spoon.
  • Remove them and repeat for the rest of the mixture.
  • To make the dry manchurian sauce :
  • Grate ginger and cut garlic into small pieces. Cut onion into small pieces, keep it separately.
  • Mix tomato sauce, soy sauce, red chilli sauce and vinegar in a bowl.
  • Mix cornflour with a small quantity of water.
  • Take oil in a pan, add ginger and garlic to it. Saute for sometime, take care not to burn them.  Now, add onion to it, continue to saute. Once it is slight pink in colour, throw in the capsicum pieces to it.
  • Cook for two minutes, let it be a little crunchy. Put the sauce mixture to it. Add little salt as the sauces contain salt in them. Now, put the corn flour slurry to it and give a stir. After a minute, once it boils switch off the flame and put the fried balls to it. Mix it properly. Garnish with spring onion greens.

Notes

Cabbage is usually used in veg manchurian. 
Spring onion is also used in this dish. It is garnished with spring onion leaves. 
You can use vegetables of your choice to make the balls. Cut them finely into small bits. 
You can add the sauces directly to the pan while cooking.