Mix vegetable Manchurian Balls with gravy
A popular Indo Chinese recipe tastes best when served with fried rice or noodle of choice. Deep fried mixed veggie balls soaked in ginger garlic flavoured, soya sauce based gravy.
Yield: 4 serves
Materials
- Manchurian Balls
- 1 cup Cabbage grated
- ¼ cup Cauliflower grated
- ¼ cup Carrot grated
- ¼ cup French Beans very finely chopped
- ¼ cup Sweet Corn boiled and blanched
- 1 tbsp Green chili finely chopped
- 2 tsp Garlic grated
- ¼ tsp Black pepper powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 4 tbsp Plain flour
- 3 tbsp Corn flour
- Oil
- For Manchurian gravy
- 1 medium Onion
- 2 tsp Garlic finely chopped
- 2 tsp Ginger finely chopped
- 2 Green Chili slit
- 2 tsp Soya sauce
- 2 tsp Red chili sauce
- 2 tsp Schezwan sauce
- 1 tsp Tomato Ketchup
- ¼ tsp Black pepper Powder
- ½ cup veg stock
- 1 tsp Corn flour dissolved in 1/4 cup water
- ¼ tsp Vinegar
- 3 tsp Oil
Instructions
- Mix all the veggies in a bowl and drain out the excess moisture squeezing them tightly between palms. Keep the juice that is drained out of the veggies. It can be used as a stock for the gravy.
- Add rest of the ingredients salt, pepper, green chilies, garlic, corn flour and plain flour to the veggies.
- Make small sized balls. If the mixture isn’t firm enough to shape into balls, you may adjust adding plain flour and corn flour.
- Heat oil in a deep frying pan.
- Deep fry the veggie balls in hot oil until they are half done and a thin crust is formed.
- Drain them on a kitchen towel.
- After a while heat the oil again and deep fry them until they change color and are crunchy.
- For the gravy
- In a wok add 3 tsp oil. Add onion, ginger, garlic, green chili and sauté for a minute.
- Add all the sauces and pepper powder and sauté.
- Add the stock (kept aside from the veggies ) along with the veg stock cube dissolved in 1/2 cup water.
- Bring it to a boil for a minute.
- Add the corn flour dissolved in water. Let the gravy thicken as per the desired consistency.
- Adjust the seasoning , but go easy on the salt since the stock cubes and sauces already have salt.
- Add vinegar.
- Add the fried Manchurian balls and mix well.
- Garnish with spring onions and ginger juliennes and serve hot.
