Megha's Creations: Recipe- Vegetable Manchurian

Vegetable Manchurian

Vegetable Manchurian is an Indo-Chinese recipe made with vegetables and lots of different sauces. It is best serve with any rice recipe or as a snack or appetizer. Be it dry or with gravy; Manchurian is both way a very good and mouthwatering dish. I am describing step by step easy method to make them at home.


Dry Manchurian

Ingredients

Carrots grated 1 cup
Spring Onion Chopped ¼ cup
Red onion chopped ¼ cup
Green chili Chopped 1
Chopped Ginger 1 tsp.
Chopped Garlic 1 tsp. (4 cloves)
Green Capsicum Chopped ¼ cup
Corn Starch 2 tbsp.
Soya sauce -1-2 tsp.
Chili sauce 1-2 tsp.
Tomato sauce- 1-2 tsp.
Vinegar 1 tsp.
Black Pepper powder 1-2 tsp.
Salt as per taste
Oil for frying

Method

Mix all the vegetables and squeeze out excess water
Add the corn starch, a little salt to the mix and make round balls from the mix
Now heat oil in a pan and deep fry till golden brown, keep them aside
To make sauce add oil in a pan in high flame and add chopped ginger, garlic and green chilies and let them fry
Add chopped capsicum and onion and other vegetables and saute for 3-4 minutes
To make sauce thickener take ¼ cup water and mix 1 tsp. corn flour and mix it well, add this to sauce
Now add soy sauce, chili sauce, vinegar, salt, black pepper and let them cook
Add the fried Manchurian balls coat it in the sauces and cook it for 4-5 minutes
And if you want Manchurian with gravy add 2 cups of vegetable stock to the preparation

Gravy Manchurian
Garnish with spring onion and capsicum
Serve it hot!