Gobi Manchurian
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indo-Chinese
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • For gravy:
  • Green Chilli – 1, finely chopped
  • Ginger – 1 inch, finely chopped
  • Garlic – 6, finely chopped
  • Red chilli –1, broken finely
  • capsicum/bell pepper - 1 cup, chopped as cubes
  • Spring onion/scallion whites – ½ cup, chopped
  • Soy sauce – 1 tbsp
  • Tomato sauce – 2 tbsp
  • White vinegar – 1 tsp
  • Black pepper – 1 tsp
  • Sugar – ½ tsp
  • Veg stock or Water – 1 ½ Cups
  • Salt – as required
  • Oil – for frying the paneer (about 6 tbsp of oil)
  • Scallion greens/ spring onions – for garnish For Cauliflower marinade:
  • Cauliflower florets – 250 gms
  • Corn flour – 2 tbsp
  • Chilli powder - 1 tsp
  • Pepper powder - 1 tsp
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
  • Salt and pepper as required for the corn flour paste:
  • Corn flour – 2 tbsp
  • Water – ½ cup
Instructions
  1. Mix the corn flour mixture under “for the corn flour paste” and keep aside.
  2. Mix all the ingredients under “for cauliflower Marinade”. Mix it well so that the cauliflower is coated with the marinade.
  3. Now shallow fry the cauliflower cubes in hot oil. Drain and keep aside.
  4. Now take a pan, add the chilli flakes, chilli and scallion whites and stir fry the bell pepper on medium heat. Make sure they do not burn.
  5. Add the soy sauce and tomato sauce, veg stock or water. Stir and simmer. After a minute or so, add the corn flour paste and let the sauce thicken.
  6. When it thickens, add the fried paneer cubes, vinegar, sugar, pepper and salt. Simmer for a minute.
  7. Garnish with spring onion green.
Notes
1. If you want the Manchurian recipe dry, then do not add any water at any step.
2. When you add the cornflour paste, add it slowly as it easily tends to make lumps.
3. If you think the gravy is too thick for you, then thin it by adding little water. If you think you need more gravy, add the cornflour paste and water proportionally to it.
Recipe by Relish The Bite at https://www.relishthebite.com/gobi-manchurian-cauliflower-manchurian/