Vegetable Manchurian
 
 
Mixed Vegetable balls in a sweet & spicy gravy. This Indo-Chinese Vegetable manchurian is sure to impress even the meat eaters!
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Serves: 14
Ingredients
Manchurian balls
  • 2 cups cabbage, very finely chopped (almost ¼th of a cabbage)
  • ½ cup carrots, very finely chopped (almost 1 large carrot or 5-6 small baby carrots)
  • ½ cup red onion, very finely chopped (almost ½ a red onion)
  • ¼ cup bell pepper or green onion, very finely chopped (1/2 bell pepper or 3-4 green onions)
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp ginger paste
  • 2 tsp garlic paste (around 4 garlic cloves)
  • 2-2.5 tsp green chili paste (around 5 green chilies or adjust as per your taste)
  • 2 tsp soy sauce (You can use any but recommended is Ching's soy sauce available at Indian grocery stores)
  • 1 tbsp corn starch
  • 2 tbsp rice flour
  • 2 tbsp all purpose flour
  • Oil for frying
Sauce
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp ginger paste
  • 1 tsp green chili paste
  • Whites of 2 green onions, chopped
  • 2-3 tbsp sugar or as per taste
  • 1.5 cups water
  • ½ cup water
  • 2 tbsp corn starch
  • 3 tbsp tomato paste or sweet & spicy maggi tomato sauce
  • 1 tsp soy sauce (start with 1 tsp and add after tasting)
  • Salt to taste
  • Black pepper to taste
Instructions
Manchurian balls
  1. Add all the ingredients for manchurian balls except oil in a bowl. Mix using hands until evenly mixed. Taste the mix and adjust if you feel any spice missing. Roll them into small balls. You will get around 14 small-medium size balls.
  2. Heat oil for frying in a deep pot. Once hot, turn the gas to medium-low and add few balls at a time. Do not over crowd. Let them fry on one side on a medium slow flame so they cook from the inside too. Turn and cook them on the other side too until golden. Cooking on medium-slow flame helps in cooking the interior evenly.
  3. Once fried, lay them on a paper towel to soak up the extra oil if any.
Making the sauce
  1. In a pot, add oil. Once hot add ginger,green chili paste and chopped white parts of green onions. Saute it for few minutes. To it add, 1 tbsp tomato paste, sugar, salt, black pepper, soy sauce and water. Bring it to a boil. In a small bowl mix ½ cup water & 2 tbsp cornstarch and add this cornstarch paste to the boiling sauce. It will help thicken up the sauce. Keep cooking. It will start to thicken slowly. Add the remaining tomato paste. Taste and adjust the seasoning as per your taste. Thicken upto desired thickness. Add the balls and cook for few more minutes.
  2. Serve hot with steamed rice or fried rice.
Recipe by Naive Cook Cooks at https://www.naivecookcooks.com/vegetable-manchurian/