Vegetable Manchurian

Vegetable Manchuria - Dry

Vegetable Manchuria - Wet

Ingredients: 

1 cup grated carrots

1 cup grated cabbage

1 cup grated mixed vegetables of your choice (beans, cauliflower, capsicum, green peas) optional

2 tbsp Corn flour

1/2 cup mashed boiled rice

3 green chilies finely chopped

1 inch ginger finely minced

1 Spring onion finely chopped

¼ tsp pepper powder

½ tsp red chili paste

2 tsp Soy sauce

¼ tsp ajinomoto

Salt to taste

Oil for frying

1 tbsp Oil

1 inch ginger finely chopped

2 garlic flakes finely chopped

1 onion (big) chopped

2 green chilies chopped

2 spring onions

1 cup Vegetable stock

1 tbsp corn flour

½ tsp Chili paste

1 tsp pepper powder

1 tsp soy sauce

1 tsp Sugar

Salt

Chopped coriander

Procedure:

·         Boil 1/2 cup of water and add all the grated vegetables (carrots, beans, cabbage, cauliflower, peas, capsicum) and let them cook covered for 3-5 minutes, vegetables should be half cooked.

·         Cool the vegetable mixture and squeeze the excess water from vegetables using a cloth and use the squeezed water as vegetable stock for making sauce.

·         Mix squeezed vegetables with salt, ajinomoto, ginger, green chilies, spring onions, pepper, soy sauce, chili paste, boiled rice, corn flour and make dumpling of small size.

·         Heat oil in a frying pan, and fry the dumplings until medium dark brown color and take out onto a kitchen towel.

·         Take another pan heat 1 tbsp of oil add cumin seeds, chopped ginger, garlic, onions, green chilies, pepper and saute for 2 minutes

·         Add spring onions, ajinomoto, salt, chili paste, soy sauce, sugar, 2 tbsp of water and saute for 2 minutes.

For Dry Manchuria

·         Add the dumplings into the sauce and sauté for 2-3 minutes until dumplings are well coated with sauce.

·         Garnish with chopped coriander and greens of spring onions.

·         Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

For Wet Manchuria

·         Add the vegetable stock (squeezed water from vegetables) to the sauce and adjust salt.

·         Mix 1 tbsp corn flour with little water and add this to the sauce. 

·         Add the fried dumplings to the sauce, and bring to boil until the sauce thickens to the required consistency.

·         Garnish with coriander and serve hot with noodles, fried rice or even with rotis/chapathis.