Vegetable Manchurian with Gravy (Indo-Chinese Recipe)
Vegetable Manchurian with Gravy (Indo-Chinese Recipe) - Made with deep-fried mixed vegetable balls is a popular Indo-Chinese dish. It can be served dry as well as with gravy. Vegetable manchurian is mainly served as a side dish with fried rice or noodles. It is vegan, gluten frees and nut-free.
Ingredients
For gravy balls
- 3 cup cabbage finely chopped
- ¼ cup onion finely chopped
- 1 cup carrot grated
- ½ cup capsicum / Shimla mirch - finely chopped
- ½ cup beans finely chopped
- 1 tbsp garlic ginger and green chilli paste
- 3 tbsp corn flour / Corn starch
- 3 tbsp rice flour
- 3 tbsp besan
- 1 tsp salt or as per your taste
- Oil for frying
Ingredients for the Dry & Gravy Manchurian
- 1 tbsp Soya Sauce
- 1 tsp red Chilli Sauce
- ½ tbsp Vinegar
- 2 tbsp Tomato Sauce
- 1 tbsp Corn Flour
- 1 tbsp Oil
- ½ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Black pepper powder
Instructions
- First, finely shred cabbage, onion, capsicum and beans. Then grate carrot and put them aside.
- Now, In a mixing bowl, add shredded vegetables, garlic, ginger and green chilli paste, salt, corn flour, rice flour and mix well. After that add besan and mix again.
- Make small balls out of this mixture. I got 30 balls from this much of mixture.
- Heat oil in a pan on the medium high flame. Once the oil is heated, add few balls at a time. Do not touch them for about 1 minute, then flip them and let them cook. Take them out before they fried fully. Do same with rest of the balls.
- Now, heat the oil to high flame setting. Then add few balls and let them fry till they become crisp. Remove them from the oil. Repeat with rest of the balls. Once done keep them aside.
- Then heat 1 tbsp oil in a saucepan, add minced garlic and finely chopped green chillies. Saute them for a minute. Add chopped onion and green capsicum, mix. Cover the pan and let the cook for about 1-2 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a bowl add red chilli sauce, soya sauce, tomato ketchup, and vinegar. Mix them nicely and keep it aside.
- In another bowl take 1 tbsp of cornflour , add 2 tbsp water and mix. Put it aside.
- Now add the sauce mixture and about 1 and ½ cup of water in the saucepan. Also add black pepper powder and salt to it. Let it cook till it start boiling.
- Add cornflour mixture to it and stir continuously till the gravy become a little thick. It just take around 1 minute.
- Finally add fried veg Manchurian balls to the gravy, gently mix it with the gravy so it coats well on the Manchurian balls. Switch off the flame.
- Serve Manchurian immediately with jeera rice,fried rice or noodles.
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Notes
1. Wash and dry the vegetables before chopping otherwise, the water makes the mixture thin and we have to add lot of corn flour and maida to it.
2. If you feel vegetables has a lot of water after grating. Squeeze them first then add other ingredients to it.
3. Adopt double frying method to lower the oil absorption by Manchurian balls.
4. You can also shallow fry them in the uppam pan but the taste might be affected.