Vegetable Manchurian - Dry and Gravy

Veg manchurian is one of my fav.... I can never go to a chinese restaurant and not order manchurian.

So just wanted to share my recipe with you all.. check it out :

Ingredients :

For dumpling :

Finely chopped Vegetables like :

Carrots

Cabbage

cauliflower

beans

( or some more vegetables u like , say bell pepper, celery )

Black Pepper powder - 1tbsp
Cornflour - 1tbsp
Chopped chillies - to taste
Chopped ginger - 1tbsp

Chopped spring onions -1/2 cup

Soya souce - 1 tbsp

Chilli paste - 1 tsp

Ajinomoto*
salt - to taste

Egg - 1

For Sauce :

Soya sauce - 1 tbsp
Chilli paste -1 tsp
Green chillies chopped - 1-2
Pepper powder - 1 tbsp
Chopped garlic - 1 tbsp
Chopped ginger - 1 or 2 tbsp
Chopped onions -1/2 cup

Salt - to taste

Ajinomoto*
oil ( sesame preferred ) - 4 tbsp
Vegetable stock
Cornflour. - 1tbsp

Directions to make dumplings :

• Grate all the vegetables and mix them in a mixing bowl
• Now queeze the water out of the vegetables and save this water which can be used as vegetable stock for the gravy later.
• To the grated vegetables, add salt, ajinomoto, black pepper powder, grated ginger, soy souce, chilli paste, spring onions ,cornflour, and one egg.
• Mash all these ingredients together. Egg helps the mixture to bind together but that is totally optional. Cornflour is a binding agent too. 
• Make small dumplings out of this mixture.
• Deep fry these dumplings till they turn golden brown in color.
• Dumplings are ready.

Directions to make sauce :

• In a wok, add sesame oil ( or vegetable oil ), heat it, and add finely chopped ginger, finely chopped garlic.
• Add chopped onions, green chillies, black pepper powder, soy sauce, chilli paste, ajinomoto, very little salt, spring onions.
• The sauce is now ready for dry manchurian.

To make dry manchurian...

• Add the vegetable dumplings to the sauce.
• The sauce should be just enough to coat the dumplings on all the sides, and its ready ...

To make gravy manchurian ...

• To the sauce mentioned above, add some vegetable stock which we had kept aside in the begining.
• Add some more soy souce and some more salt.
• Add some cornflour in little water and make a paste.
• Add this paste of cornflour to the sauce . This will thicken the sauce for gravy.
• Add the vegetable dumplings to this gravy and your gravy manchurian is ready.

Tip : Dry Manchurian is good for appetizer.

Gravy Manchurian is good with Hakka Noodles or Fried Rice.

Variation :

You can make Gobhi Manchurian in a similar way. The sauce preparation would remain same. Check out the recipe to make cauliflower florets dumplings.

* Try to avoid ajinomoto as it is said to be " not good for health "

Enjoy !! :)