Monday, December 15, 2014

Mixed Vegetable Manchurian

Indian Chinese cooking is the adaption of Chinese seasoning and cooking techniques to Indian tastes. It is said to have been developed by a small Chinese community that has lived in Kolkata for over a century. Indian Chinese has followed the mainstream Indian expatriate community as they have spread across the world, providing expatriate Indians with a taste of authentic Indian Chinese.

Coming to Manchurian may be Gobi or mixed vegetable is one of my favorite fusion food after noodles. My immense love for this dish made me learn it and become a perfectionist. Grated vegetables mixed with maida, corn flour, soysauce, vinegar, make lemon size balls and deep fried immediately mixed up with sauce. Works great with noodles or as it is. I am sure one cannot resist and wait until served with noodles. It sure is a time consuming dish but believe me every single minute is worth it. You will surely accept once you taste it. You can grate the veggies and mix up with spices ahead to save some time. I always grate them a day ahead and pop it in the fridge.



Vegetable Manchurian Recipe:

Preparation time: 1hr
Serves: 4 persons
Cuisine: Indo-Chinese

Ingredients:

For Manchurian:

Cabbage
Carrot
Green beans
Green capsicum
Green chilies
Green onions
Maida
Corn flour
Aginomoto
Soy Sauce
Vinegar
Ginger garlic paste
Red chilie sauce
Ketchup
Food color
Oil for deep frying

For Sauce:

Sliced ginger
Sliced garlic
Ginger garlic paste
Soy sauce
Chilie sauce
Vinegar
Green onions
Ketchup
1 tbsp of oil

Method:

Grate cabbage and carrot squeeze all the water from it. (I use food processor for grating cabbage and carrot as it is less time consuming).

Finely chop green beans, capsicum, green onions, green chilies, and cilantro.

To this vegetable mix add salt, maida, corn flour, GG paste, aginomoto, soy sauce, vinegar, chilie sauce, ketchup. Do not any water as the water from the veggies will be sufficient. The batter should be thick enough to hold the shape of a ball. Adjust the spices to your comfortable level.

In a frying pan add oil sufficient for deep fry, make lemon size balls with the veggie mix batter and deep fry until they are golden brown. The temperature of the oil should be medium and it takes a while to fry them, if the oil is too hot, the outer part will be brown but inside it will be raw.

In a wide pan, put a tbsp of oil; once the oil is hot add sliced ginger, garlic, GG paste, soy sauce, chilie sauce, vinegar, ketchup, finely chopped green onion.

Once all the sauce is sautéed a bit add the fried Manchurian into the sauce and mix it carefully without breaking.

Enjoy them as it is as starter, or serve them along with noodles or spaghetti (it looks exactly like meatball spaghetti)

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