Vegetable Manchurian

Preparation Time: 5 min
Cooking time: 30 min

A. Ingredients for preparing manchurian dumplings:

2 Carrots
1cup Cabbage
1cup Chopped beans
1-Capsicum/green pepper
1/2 tsp Pepper powder
2-3 Chopped Chillies
3-4 Spring onions
Chopped Ginger
1 tbsp Soya Sauce
1 tbsp Chilli Paste
3/4cup Boiled Rice (add more if needed)
1/2cup Corn Flower
Salt

B. Ingredients for preparing manchurian sauce:

1/2 tbsp Pepper powder
4-5 Green chillies
1/4cup Chilli paste
1/4cup Soya sauce
Chopped ginger
Chopped garlic
Onions
1/2cup Spring onions
Salt
1/4cup Sweet and sour sauce( if sweet and sour sauce is not there you can use sugar)
vegetable stock/water
2-3 tbsp Corn flour(mix in water)

Method for preparing Manchurian balls:
1. Chop all the vegetables in the blender.
2. Take a wide pan. Add all the chopped vegetables, add little water and cook for sometime. Close the pan with the lid.
3. Once the vegetables become soft, remove them, take a cloth and put the cooked vegetables in the cloth and squeeze it so that the water from the vegetables is removed completely. Do not throw the water as we can use it as the vegetable stock for making the sauce.
4. Add the rest of the ingredients(A) described above and mix well, make small round balls.
5. Take a wok or large frying pan, add oil. Once the oil gets heated, first try frying one ball, see that it does not break in the oil. If it breaks add more boiled rice.If it fries well then fry the rest of the balls and keep aside.


Method for preparing Manchurian sauce:
1. Add oil in a pan.
2. Add garlic, ginger, onions, green chillies, pepper powder, soya sauce, chilli paste, sweet and sour sauce, spring onions and very little salt as all the ingredients have salt in it, so watch out when adding salt.
3. Mix well for 2 min.
4. Add the vegetable stock. When it starts boiling add cornflower(mixed with water). If needed add salt.
5. Add the vegetable dumplings and mix for 2min.
6. Vegetable Manchurian is ready to eat.

If you wish to make dry manchurian, follow the method for sauce till step 3 and then add the dumplings and mix.