GOBI MANCHURIA

Gobi Manchuria

Manchuria is a Chinese recipe made with different vegetables and also seafood and chicken. This became a popular street foods as many other Chinese recipes. This is made with various vegetables and hence the different names for manchuria. Gobi manchuria, veg manchuria, baby corn manchuria etc. This Chinese recipe is adopted in India and underwent many changes to suite Indian tastes keeping the main ingredients as it is. The sauce made with soy sauce, tomato sauce, vinegar, chilly sauce tastes awesome.
INGREDIENTS

• Cauliflower              1 medium
• GingerGarlic paste   1 tsp
• Ajinamoto               a pinch
• Maida                      1/2 cup
• Corn flour                2 Tsp
• Oil                           for deep frying
• paprika                  1 Tsp or (red food color- a pinch)
• Salt                        to taste
• Pepper powder     1/2 tsp

FOR THE SAUCE

• Ginger           1/2 inch
• Garlic             1Tsp(finely chopped)
• Green chillies 1
• Soy sauce      1 Tsp
• Tomatosauce 1 Tsp
• Chilly sauce     1/2 Tsp
• Onion             1 small
• Tomato          1 Small
• Capsicum       1 small
• Salt                a pinch
• Oil                  2Tsp
• Cilantro         (finely chopped) 1 Tsp

PROCEDURE
Wash the cauliflower and separate the florets depending on the size you prefer. In a bowl mix the maida, corn flour, ajinamoto, salt, gingergarlic paste, white pepper powder, paprika/red food color and water. Make a medium thick batter. Dip the florets in the batter and set aside for 10 minutes. Heat the oil in a pan and now deep fry the cauliflower florets.
In a separate pan heat two table spoon of oil. Add the finely chopped onions, tomatoes, capsicum one after the other. Now add the finely chopped green chillies, chopped garlic and juliened ginger and fry well. Add very little salt (for the vegetables only). Add the soy sauce, tomato sauce, chilly sauce. Mix well and finally add the fried cauliflower. Garnish with cilantro and onion slices and serve hot.
TIPS

• The version I gave above is the dry version. For the gravy version add a Half cup of water to the cooked veggies and increase the amount of sauce. Finally add one tsp of corn flour to the prepared sauce to thicken it and then add the cauliflower.
• Gobi manchuria goes well with fried rice or chapathi or roti.
• Ajinamoto can be skipped, even then the taste will be nice.
• The size of veggies purely depends on your taste.