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My Chinese taste buds are so developed now experiencing different regional Chinese food. But I have always been a fan of Indian Style Hakka Chinese food.
One of my very favorite is hot and tangy Vegetable Manchurian. Deep fried golden goodness resembling meat balls in delicious Chinese style sauce.
Recipe is pretty simple; provided that you have all the ingredients or some of them and you are not lazy to grate the vegetables. (It is served with either rice or noodles. Take your pick.)
For the recipe you will need (My version):
- 1 cup of cabbage, grated
- 1 cup of carrots, grated
- 1-2 Tbsp of scallions, finely chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
- About 4 Tbsp of cornflour
1. Grate the vegetables,
squeeze the juices from the vegetables in a cup and
keep it aside.
Stir in about half a spoon of cornflour in it and
set it aside to use it later for the sauce.
2. After squeezing out the water,
add salt, pepper, and corn flour to the veggies and
knead the mixture.
Make small balls and then
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deep fry or shallow fry them.
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To make the sauce :
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- 1 Tbsp of ginger and garlic, each finely chopped
- spring onions, finely chopped
- 1 Tbsp of tomato ketchup
- 1 tsp of chilli sauce (I used sriracha)
- 1 Tbsp of soy sauce
- a bit of green onions (the green part), finely chopped
- 1 Tbsp cilantro, chopped
1. In a heated wok on a medium flame,
add oil.
2. And then add ginger, garlic and spring onion to it. Then
saute continuously.
3. Add the ketchup and sriracha to this.
4. And then add the fried vegetable balls in the wok and
keep sauteing as it gets coated with ginger-garlic goodness.
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5. Add a little water to this and the saved cornflour mixture to thicken the sauce.
6. Add the soy sauce and
stir till the sauce is thick.
7. Garnish it with green onions and some cilantro,
Serve with rice or
stir in noodles.
Very yummy and easy. :-)
Enjoy!
--A.R.
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