veg. manchurian
Chinese side dish
Cooking Time
30min
Prep Time
30 min
Serves
3
Categories
Dinner
Lunch
Side Dish
Cuisines
Chinese
Ingredients
Main Section
cabbage
1/2
cup
Finely chopped
carrot
1/2
cup
Finely chopped
capsicum
1/2
cup
Finely chopped - 1/4 cup for veg. Balls & 1/4 cup for sauce gravy
French Beans
1/4
cup
Finely chopped
spring onion
1/4
cup
Finely chopped
Corn flour
3
tbsp
Maida
2
tbsp
black crushed pepper
1
tsp
salt
1/2
tsp
Soy Sauce
1/2
tbsp
Tomatoe Sauce
1
tbsp
Red chilli sauce
2.5
tsp
ginger
1
tbsp
Finely chopped
Garlic flakes
1
tbsp
Finely chopped
green chillies
2
unit/count
Finely chopped
sugar
1/4
tsp
Vinegar
1
tsp
Step 1
Take a bowl & put all the chopped vegetables into it. Note take only half quantity of the total capsicum, the other half is for sauce gravy.
Step 2
Then add 2tbsp of corn flour, maida, 1/2 tsp black pepper powder & salt into the vegetable bowl & mix altogether & make it into balls (Refer photo 2) by applying oil in the palm while making the veggie. balls. Keep the veggie balls aside.
Step 3
Next heat oil in a deep pan & put the balls slowly into the hot oil by keeping the flame on medium. Note that if the balls breaks in the oil then u need to add more maida & mix & make it into balls again.
Step 4
Deep fry all the veggie balls into crispy golden brown colour (Refer photo 3) & keep it aside to drain out the oil.
Step 5
Next keep a pan on gas , put 2 tbsp of oil into it & saute finely chopped 4tbsp spring onion, ginger, garlic, green chillies & 1/4 cup capsicum & saute till the onions are translucent.
Step 6
Side by side mix soy sauce, tomato sauce, red chilli sauce in a bowl & pour it into the pan after spring onion is translucent & boil well & adjust the thickness by adding water as required. Also make 1 tbsp of cornflour mixed in water & pour it into the pan stirring continuously so that no lumps of cornflour are formed.
Step 7
Finally, add 1/2 tsp black pepper powder & salt as required. Also add 1/4 tsp sugar & 1 tsp vinegar & mix well.
Step 8
Now, put the fried vegetable balls & stir & coat the balls in the gravy & switch off the gas after 2 minutes.
Step 9
Serve it hot by putting chopped green leaves of the spring onion on the top of the veggie. balls.
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