Veg Ball Manchurian:

Super tasty and popular Indo -Chinese dish. It is served as a side dish with Noodles or Fried Rice. It is either ginger /garlic flavoured, and I usually prefer the ginger one and am sharing the same with you all.

At first, grated veggies are bound together to make a roundel, then deep-fried in hot oil. Once the veg ball is deep-fried and ready, dish preparation doesn’t take much time.

How I make –

Ingredients:

For Veg Ball:

Cabbage – around 200 grams

Carrot – 1 small

Capsicum – ½

Spring onion – 2 springs

Green chilli – 1

Ginger juveniles – 1  tsp

Salt

Corn flour – 1 tablespoon

All-purpose flour – 1 tablespoon

Rice flour – 1 tablespoon

For Gravy:

Oil – 2 tablespoons

Ginger juveniles – 1  tablespoon

Spring onion – 3 bulbs + greens

Capsicum – ½

Schezwan  Sauce – 1 to 2 tablespoons

Soy sauce – 1 tablespoon

Vinegar – 1 tablespoon

Tomato sauce – 2 tablespoons

Salt – as needed

Corn flour – 1 to 2 tablespoons

Method:

-First, we will see the method of deep-fried veg balls:

-Grate or chop cabbage, carrot, and green chilli in a vegetable chopper/food processor.

-Chop capsicum, and spring onion, mix all the sauces in a small cup and keep.

Take one bowl, mix chopped veggies, green chilli, and ginger, sprinkle flour, add salt at the end, and start binding together to make a ball.

-Deep fry all these balls and keep them aside.

-For the sauce,

-make a slurry of cornflour in a cup of water and keep it aside.

-Heat oil, drop ginger, and bulb part of spring onion (chopped) and fry for 2 minutes.

-Add Spring onion bulb part and capsicum and fry for a while.

-Add all the sauces and fry for 1 minute and add 2 cups of water ( I usually use starch water, which we drain while preparing noodles or rice, to make this gravy. It tastes and gives a nice texture.)

-Boil, add cornflour slurry and boil nicely until the sauce looks glossy and the consistency becomes thick.

-Adjust the seasoning, salt and water. Drop those fried veggie balls and allow to boil once garnish with spring onion greens and serve with fried rice or noodles.


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