Vegetable Manchurian is one of the most popular Indo-Chinese recipes. You can easily make this awesome Chinese dish with cabbage or cauliflower or mushroom and a few more ingredients...
Firstly you have to finely chop all the vegetables that are needed to make Manchurian balls (like cabbage, carrot, onion, beans, and capsicum).
Then take all these into a big bowl.
Add 1 tbsp of ginger-garlic paste.
Then add all the sauces like tomato sauce, chili sauce, and soya sauce as per the mentioned quantity.
Add 1/2 cup white flour and 4 tbsp cornflour. Also add the required spices like salt, sugar, cumin powder and hot spice powder.
Add a little water and mix all the ingredients well to make a dough.
Make 1/4" sized balls from that dough with your hands.
Fry the Manchurian Balls
Heat a pan with oil. When you see the oil is heat enough, turn the flame at medium. Then put the Manchurian balls one by one in the oil.
Fry them until the color becomes golden brown. After that put them off and place on a plate or tissue.
Make Gravy
The vegetables needed to make gravy have to be cut as per instruction. Such as garlic, onion, and capsicum.
Again heat a pan with 2 tbsp of oil.
Add chopped garlic along with green chili.
Then add cubed capsicum and onion and fry a little. Keep the gas flame in very high.
Now add all the sauce like tomato sauce, red chili sauce, and dark soya sauce as per mention quantity.
After frying 30-50 seconds, add water to make gravy. let the water boiled.
In this meantime make a mixture of water and cornflour in a small bowl.
When you notice the water just starts boiling, add a tbsp of mixture and stir gently. After that add 1 tbsp of mixture again and stir gently. Continue this process until the gravy becomes thicker.
Thereafter add all the required spices like salt, sugar and black pepper powder. Also, add a tbsp of vinegar.
Now add all the fried Manchurian balls into the gravy. Cook for a minute and turn off the gas.
Your Restaurant style Vegetable Manchurian or Cabbage Manchurian is ready to serve.
Notes
Spring onions are also an important part of this recipe. However, I didn't mention it in my recipe because personally I don't like it. For garnish, you can use this sliced spring onion in this recipe or add it when adding fried balls to the gravy.
Ajinomoto or MSG is also used widely in this recipe. That increased the taste of it and helps to keep this fresh for a long time. But I do not recommend this MSG because it has lots of side effects and can be caused you health problems.