Author Notes: Veg Manchurian recipe is a Chinese recipe that can be made both as a dry side-dish or, with a lot of gravy and can be served along with Chowmein. —Puja Darshan
Serves: 3
Ingredients
To Make manchurian balls
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1/2
cup Cabbage (grated)
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1/2
cup Carrot (grated)
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1/2
cup Bell Pepper (grated)
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1/3
cup Green Peas (slightly blended)
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1/3
cup Maida
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1/2
teaspoon Salt
To make manchurian sauce
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1
Onion (thinly sliced)
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1
Green Chilli (finely choppped)
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6-7
Garlic (pods)
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1/2
teaspoon Ginger garlic paste
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1/2
teaspoon Chilli Sauce
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1
tablespoon Tomato Sauce
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1
tablespoon Soya Sauce
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to tastes
Salt
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1/2
teaspoon Corn Flour
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1
teaspoon Oil
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as needed
Water
Directions
- In a bowl add cabbage, beans, carrot, bell pepper, green peas and mix.
- Add salt and maida to it and mix well.
- Now make a lemon sized balls out of the mixture.
- Now heat oil in a pan and deep fry or shallow fry these balls.
- Fry until slightly brown. Remove the manchurian balls onto a tissue paper. Set aside.
- Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan add chopped garlic and fry until golden brown.
- Add onion and 1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste and saute until brown.
- Add green chilli and salt. Mix well.
- Add soya sauce, chilli sauce and mix.
- Add tomato sauce and 1/3 cup of water and mix everything well. Let it boil.
- Add 1/3 tsp corn flour and mix well. Ensure that the lumps are not formed.
- Add little more water and drop the manchurian balls into the mixture and mix well.
- When the balls are nicely coated, add 1/3 cup water and let it boil.
- When the water dries, switch off the gas.
- Serve hot along with hot chow mein.
Photo by Puja Darshan