Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Vegetable Manchurian

Ingredients

Cabbage ½ a head Finely Chopped (Chop using food processor or grinder)
Carrots 4 Finely Chopped
Green Beans 25 Finely Chopped
Onion 2 Diced into 1 inch cubes (optional)
Bell Pepper 2 Diced into 1 inch Cubes (optional)
Garlic 30 cloves
Ginger 3 inch
Green chills 8
Cilantro 1 bunch
Mint 20 leaves
Curry leaves 20
Salt to taste
Corn starch 6-10 teaspoons
All-purpose flour 2-3 teaspoons
Soya sauce 3-4 tbs or more if you like little sauce
Hot and sour tomato ketchup 2-3 tsps
Oil to deep fry

  1. Make a past out of the following
    Garlic 10
    Ginger 3 inch
    Green chills 4 or more if you want spicy
    Salt to taste
    Cilantro ½ bunch
    Mint 5 leaves
    Curry leaves 5.
  2. Finely Chop all the vegetables, either by using a chop option in a food processor or grind them using a grinder. Make sure finely chop not into a paste.
  3. Take above prepared mixture of finely chopped vegetables in a big bowl then add the past prepared in step 1 to it, mix well together. Keep it a side for 5 min
  4. chop the rest of garlic, cilantro, mint, curry leaves and chills separately and keep it a side
  5. Now take the mixture prepared in step3 then add corn starch and all-purpose flour, make sure you can make small size balls from the mixture. Do not add too much of corn flour or all purpose flour, this will make tough Manchurian balls.
  6. Make golf size balls and deep fry till golden brown
  7. Finally put 1 tsp of oil in a pan and add chopped herbs and garlic from step 4 to the hot pan then once they are fried a little add the stuff prepared in step 6, as well as onions and bell peppers if you like and let them fry for 2-3 min.
  8. Finally add Soya sauce and Hot and sour tomato ketchup. Once the Soya sauce and ketchup is dried in the pan then remove from heat and server with your favorite food.
  9. You can always garnish with spring onions(optional)

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