Due to popular request and for all my vegetarian friends out there - am posting this recipe for Gobi Manchurian - the Indian way. After coming back to India I found out that one of my super good friends has turned into a non-vegetarian and another one of my super good friends turned into a vegetarian. I was happy that there was a loss and gain on both sides and the balance was restored in the world food chain. However, there was not really a balance in my blog with my pro-chicken attitude and I hope this post will bring out that missing balance between veggie and non-veggies.
Ingredients:
1. Cauliflower - 1 cup - cleaned and cut
2. Corn Flower - 100 grams
3. Maida (Refined flour) - 50 grams
4. Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
5. Soya sauce - 1/2 tsp
6. Ginger Garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
7. Salt - 1/2 to 1 tsp according to taste
Method:
Now if you dislike Soya sauce, ginger or garlic - both of them are optional. But if u add it, it brings that extra magic touch to the taste. Add all 2 to 7 ingredients and pour water, in small quantities, to make a good batter. If the batter is too thin, u can make more of the manchurians and if it is too thick, u would make less of it. You can figure out what thickness the batter should be yourself.
Heat the cooking oil for frying, dip the vegetable in the batter and deep fry it, till bubbling comes down.
This is end of stage one. If u r really hungry, you can eat as such after frying (make sure you drain the excess oil, otherwise you might burn your tongue). Or you can choose to take it to next stage.
Ingredients:
1. 1 mid sized onion - chopped up nicely
2. 1 chilli - chopped
3. Soya sauce - 1/2 tsp
4. Ginger + Garlic - chopped up 1/2 tsp
5. pepper
6. 2 tsp oil
7. add a little sugar , if u like ur manchurians to be sweet
Method:
Pour the oil in pan and put the onions, chilli, ginger + garlic chopped in and saute nicely. After a couple of minutes add the soya sauce and pepper and continue to saute. Now pour little water and let the onions cook for a bit. Once all the water is evaporated, add the fried Manchurians and stir till the mix gets even. The dry manchurians are now ready. And if you want to convert this to a gravy - just add a spoon of corn flour with water and add to the mixture.
Bon appetite ... Let me know how it turned out ...
