Vegetable Manchurian

This is another easy and a popular Chinese dish. This also happens to be one of S's favourite dishes when it comes to Chinese cuisine. This dish can be served both as a starter or it can be paired with fried rice and served as main course as well.

This recipe is adapted from Tarla dalal's easy Chinese cooking. I have made a few changes by including chopped capsicum in the recipe. These little vegetable balls that are soaked in soya sauce based gravy can tickle anybody's tongue. Do give this recipe a try. I am sure you will love it!!

Vegetable Manchurian recipe:

Preparation time- 20-30min

Cooking time- 10min

Serves- 4

Ingredients:

For the veg balls

Finely chopped cabbage- 1 cup

Grated Carrot- 1/2cup

Spring onion whites- 1-2tbsp

Finely chopped capsicum- 1

Corn flour- 2tbsp

All purpose flour- 2tbsp

Salt to taste

Garlic- 3-4 cloves, finely chopped

Green chilli-1, chopped fine

Oil for deep frying

For the sauce

Garlic- 4-5 cloves finely chopped

Ginger- 1"piece, finely chopped

Soya sauce- 1tbsp

Corn flour- 1 tbsp, dissolved in 3tbsp of water

Salt to taste

Sugar- 1/4tsp

Vegetable stock- 1 cup

Spring onion greens to garnish

Method:

For the balls:

• Mix all the ingredients except oil in a bowl and mix well. 
• Shape spoon fulls of the dough to form lime sized balls. If you find it difficult to shape the balls, then sprinkle a tea spoon or two of water to bind the mixture
• Heat oil in a wok and deep fry the balls till golden brown. Drain on an absorbent paper and keep aside.

For the sauce:

• Heat a tbsp of oil in wok and add the chopped ginger and garlic and fry on high heat till the raw smell goes.
• Add the vegetable stock, soya sauce, salt and sugar and allow the mixture to boil for a min.
• Add the corn flour mixture and allow the mixture to simmer for a few min.
• Just before serving, add the vegetable balls to the sauce and boil the mixture for a couple of min and serve immediately.

Note: If the balls disintegrate while frying, then add some more corn flour to the dough and continue to fry.