Gobi Manchurian is inspired from Chinese cuisine. Serves as a great appetizer as well as side dish. Here is my recipe for Gobi Manchurian.
Ingredients:
1. Cauliflower floretes- 1 cup
2. Rice flour - 1cup
3. Corn Starch - 2 or 3 tsp
4. Paprika(optional)
5. Milk - 2 tsp
6. Turmeric powder
7. Garlic/ginger paste
8. Ginger/ garlic pods
9. Green chilies - 3
10. Green capsicum - 2
11. Onion - 1
12. Soyasauce - 1 tspn
13. Chili sauce - 1to 2 tspn
14. Tomato sauce
15. Pepper powder
16. Garlic paste
17. Spring onion for garnishing
18. Salt to taste
Procedure:
Wash and cut the cauliflower into medium size florets. Take a vessel and put the cauliflower into it and add some warm water with 2tspn of milk and a pinch of turmeric powder. Let it soak for sometime, this is done to clean off any remaining dirt inside the florets. Now take another bowl add the flour, corn starch, salt, soysauce, garlic/garlic paste, chilli sauce, water and make a batter. The batter shouldn't be too runny. Now add the cauliflower florets into this batter. Normally the batter coated florets are deep fried but I tried shallow frying and it came out good. So take a pan, pour little oil and slowly add one by one gobi coated with the batter. Shallow fry it properly on both the sides. Once it done frying in batches transfer the fried gobi's to some tissue paper so that the oil is absorbed.
Next cut the onions and capsicums into small square pieces. Chop the green chilli, ginger and garlic into small pieces. Chop the spring onions also. Take a skillet, pour little oil. First add the ginger, garlic and the green chillies, saute it for few seconds. Next add the onions and saute it till it starts becoming transparent. Then add the capsicum and paprika powder(optional). Now add soy sauce, tomato sauce and the chili sauce and mix all the ingredients properly. Allow all this to cook slightly for few seconds and then add the fried cauliflower and pepper powder into it. Pour some the remaining batter we made to dip the florets into the skillet or you can even take little corn starch add water and pour it. Let everything cook for few minutes. Add the salt as required. Stir occassionally otherwise it will get stick to the skillet bottom. Keep it on low flame till all the water vapour evaporates and the Gobi manchurian becomes dry. Serve the Gobi manchurian in a bowl and put the chopped spring onions on top of it as garnish. Gobi manchurian is ready to be served.
when you say a "cup" as in your measurement, what exactly is the amount? can u pls traslate that in gms or tbsps? thanks!
ReplyDelete@sheila....Thanks for checking out my recipe..`m bit confused here as in,r u asking about the quantity of the cauliflower or rice flour, because I had mentioned amount of both in cups...I used one medium sized cauliflower and rice flour like 7-8 tsp....
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