Manchurian

My name is Gurinder and I was in the weblog group “Photography”, I just switched to the weblog group “Food” as cooking is my other favorite thing to do. I love to cook, try new dishes and enjoy the company of my family and friends and laugh while we eat.

Last week, I was preparing dinner for my family and decided to make Manchurian. Manchurian is a dish classified as a Chinese dish but is quite unique to India. In fact, it is a really popular dish in India and really easy to make. It took me just 20 minutes to prepare and then 20 minutes to cook. Basically there are two separate parts when making the Manchurian dish. The first part includes making the vegetable balls and the second part includes making the sauce or gravy.

The ingredients for vegetable balls are:

• 2 cups finely chopped cabbage

• 2 cups of finely chopped broccoli

• 2 cups of cauliflower

• 1 ¼ cups grated carrot

• ½ grated salary

• 1 grated green/red or yellow pepper

• 2 tablespoons of corn flour

• 2-3 tablespoons of plain flour (Maida)

• Oil for deep-frying

• Salt and black pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Combine the cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, green pepper, and salary and mix them well in a bowl
2. Squeeze the vegetables and keep this vegetable juice or stock to use in preparing sauce
3. Add salt, black pepper, corn flour and plain flour into vegetables and mix the
4. Add little bit water and make small round balls and then deep fry in vegetable oil until they are golden brown
5. Drain these balls on absorbent paper and keep aside

Now the ingredients for the sauce or gravy are:

• 1 tablespoons of chopped garlic

• 1 tablespoons of finely chopped ginger

• 1 cup chopped onions

• 2-3 tomatoes

• 1 small bowl of tomato sauce

• 2 tablespoons finely chopped green chilies

• 1 tablespoon of soy sauce

• 1 tablespoons of hot sauce

• Vegetable juice or stock

• 1 tablespoon of corn flour

• 1 cup of water

• Salt and pepper to taste

• Vegetable oil to make gravy or sauce

Directions:

1. Heat the oil in the frying pan on medium heat
2. Add the garlic, ginger, and onions in the pan and cook them until golden browl
3. Then add tomatoes, tomato sauce, green chilies, soy sauce, hot sauce, corn flour, vegetable stock, salt and black pepper and little bit of water (to thin down the sauce) and cook for 15 minutes and simmer for a few minutes
4. Once the sauce is ready, add the vegetables balls in sauce and garnish your dish with chopped coriander or spinach.

The Manchurian dish is ready to serve!

Most important thing I like about this dish is that it has many vegetables in it which has different flavor and is really good for health. These vegetables are good source of calcium, iron, and zinc and help to maintain good health. There are varieties of Manchurian like Gobi (cauliflower) Manchurian, broccoli Manchurian etc. Enjoy this recipe!

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/foodista/4050693808/