Veg Manchurian Dry

Veg Manchurian Dry

September 13, 2022
Prep Time : 50 mins
Cook Time : 10 mins
Total Time : 1 hr
 

Ingredients

For fried veg manchurian balls

  • ½ cup grated or finely chopped cabbage (green or red cabbage)
  • ½ cup grated carrot
  • ¼ cup finely chopped capsicum (green bell pepper)
  • ¼ cup finely chopped french beans
  • ¼ cup finely chopped spring onions (scallions) or onions
  • 2 tablespoon corn starch (also called as corn flour in india)
  • 2 tablespoon all purpose flour (maida)
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt or add as required
  • oil for shallow frying or deep frying

For veg manchurian sauce

  • ½ tablespoon finely chopped garlic
  • ½ tablespoon finely chopped ginger
  • 1 or 2 green chilies – finely chopped
  • ¼ cup chopped spring onions (scallions) or onions
  • ½ tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon tomato ketchup
  • 1 teaspoon red chili sauce
  • ¼ teaspoon corn starch optional
  • ¼ teaspoon black pepper powder
  • ½ teaspoon rice vinegar or regular vinegar or apple cider vinegar
  • ½ to 1 tablespoon chopped spring onions greens for garnish
  • ½ tablespoon toasted sesame oil
  • salt as required
 

Instructions

Making veggie balls

  • Take the finely chopped or grated veggies in a bowl.
  • Add all the dry ingredients.
  • Gather the whole mixture and kind of knead so that the veggies leave water and you get a dough like mixture.
  • Take a small portion of the mixture in your hands. Press and roll it in your palm and make a round veggie ball. Make all veggie balls this way and keep aside.

Frying veggie balls

  • Heat oil for deep frying in a kadai or pan. 
  • Add a small piece of ball to the hot oil. 
  • If the balls does not stick or settle down at the bottom of the pan, but comes up steadily the oil is ready.
  • Gently place the balls in the hot oil. The oil has to be medium hot. Too much heat and the manchurian balls will be browned from top and uncooked from inside.
  • Less hot oil will make the manchurian balls absorb too much of oil.
  • With a slotted spoon turn over the balls when cooked from one side. Fry the veg manchurian balls till crisp and golden.
  • Remove them with a slotted spoon and drain as much as oil as possible.
  • Place the fried veg manchurian balls on kitchen paper towels. Fry the veg manchurian balls this way in batches and keep aside.

Making veg manchurian dry

  • Once the balls are fried, then it is time to make the sauce. In another pan, heat about ½ tbsp of the same oil in which we fried the balls or ½ tbsp of sesame oil.
  • Add finely chopped garlic, finely chopped ginger & 1 or 2 green chilies, finely chopped.
  • Stir and saute for a minute on a low flame.
  • Add ¼ cup chopped spring onions or onions.
  • Stir and saute till the onions soften.
  • Now add soy sauce, tomato ketchup and red chili sauce or green chili sauce. Stir very well.
  • Keep the flame on the lower side and sprinkle corn starch. Adding corn starch is optional. Stir very well.
  • Quickly add salt and black pepper as required. Stir again. 
  • After adding corn starch the sauce will begin to thicken, so one has to be quick.
  • Then add the fried veg manchurian balls. Stir so that the sauce coats the veg balls evenly.
  • Switch off the flame and add the rice vinegar or regular white vinegar.
  • Toss and stir again. Serve dry veg manchurian hot as a starter snack garnished with some spring onion greens.

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