Vegetable Manchurian is prepared with mixed vegetables, soya sauce, vinegar and a handful of spices for that flavour. A few years back when I have moved from Delhi to Bangalore, I started missing my Delhi style food.
Even though in Bangalore you get all the variety of food but for us the place was new so we were not much familiar
with the places.
with the places.
Vegetable Manchurian Recipe
Ingredients
- Cabbage, grated-1 medium
- Carrot, grated-1 medium
- Cauliflower, grated-4-5
- Spring onions finely chopped-2 medium
- Green capsicum, finely chopped-1 medium(optional)
- Salt to taste
- Refined flour (maida)-1/4 cup
- Cornflour/ corn starch-1/4 cup
- Oil to deep fry
Sauce/Gravy
- Oil-2 tablespoons
- Ginger, finely chopped- 1 small piece
- Garlic, finely chopped-4-6 cloves
- Green chillies, finely chopped-3(Optional)
- Soy sauce- 2 tbsp
- Sugar-1 teaspoon
- Salt to taste
- Vegetable stock or water- 2 1/2 cups
- Cornflour/ corn starch-3 tablespoons
- Vinegar-1 tablespoon
Method
- Mix cabbage, carrot and cauliflower in a bowl and thoroughly rub in one teaspoon of salt. And leave it for 5 minutes.
- Add spring onion, capsicum, refined flour and one-fourth cup of cornflour. Mix thoroughly.
- You can prepare without capsicum also if you don’t want to add it. Shape into lemon sized balls.
- Sometimes while making the Manchurian balls your hands will get too sticky, use some oil on your palm while preparing balls.
- Heat sufficient oil in a wok and deep-fry vegetable balls in small batches for three to four minutes on medium heat or until golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper.
I am a bit bias while adding garlic and always tend to add more garlic to my recipes.
- Heat two tablespoons of oil in a wok or a pan and stir fry the ginger and garlic for half a minute. Add green chillies and stir-fry for half a minute more. Add soy sauce, sugar and salt.
- Stir in vegetable stock/ water and bring to a boil. Stir in the cornflour mixture and cook for a couple of minutes or until the sauce starts to thicken, stirring continuously.
- Add the fried vegetable balls, vinegar and mix well. Serve hot, garnished with the reserved spring onion greens.
Recipe Tip :
If you want to serve it dry without the sauce, reduce the stock to one cup and cornflour in the sauce to one and a half tablespoons only.
If you want to serve it dry without the sauce, reduce the stock to one cup and cornflour in the sauce to one and a half tablespoons only.
Add fried vegetable balls before serving otherwise it will become too soft.
This looks delicious ..will give a try.