One of the prime selling dishes in restaurants, Gobi Manchurian is a delicious and popular Indian-Chinese recipe. It is loaded with a lot of flavours and spices.
It is served as an appetizer snack and can be prepared dry or saucy (gravy-based). It is a flavourful dish which is a mash-up of a variety of vegetables, sauces, herbs and spices. Check out how to prepare it at home.
Cooking Time: 1 hour
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
• 1 Cauliflower
• 1 cup All Purpose Flour
• 4 tsp Cornstarch
• ¼ tsp Black Pepper Powder
• ¼ to ½ tsp Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder
• 1 tsp Soy Sauce
• 1 cup Water or add as required
• 5 to 6 tsp Oil
• ¾ cup Chopped Spring Onion
• ½ cup Finely Chopped Capsicum
• 1.5 inches Ginger
• 8 to 10 garlic
• 2 Green Chilies
• ½ tsp finely chopped Celery
• 1.5 tsp Soy Sauce
• 1 tsp Tomato Ketchup
• 1 tsp Rice Vinegar
• ¼ to ½ tsp Black Pepper Powder
• Salt as required
Method:
- In this step, chop the cauliflower into small sized florets
- Next, heat water with salt and boil them. Also, wash the cauliflower florets and put them in the hot water
- Now, let them get blanched in the water for approximately 15 to 20 minutes and drain them once done
- Now, let’s fry the cauliflower so take a bowl and mix these ingredients for preparing the batter – all-purpose flour, cornstarch, soy sauce, black pepper, kashmiri red chilli powder as well as salt as per your taste
- Put water and whisk to prepare a smooth batter which doesn’t have any lumps
- Next, put each cauliflower floret in the batter and take out one by one
- Fry the batter-coated cauliflower florets in a pan by adding oil. Cook them from each side and take out once they turn crisp and change colour to light golden
- Follow the process to fry all the cauliflower florets until all are prepared
- Now, drain these fried cauliflower florets on kitchen paper or a towel
- Now let’s prepare the recipe, use the same remaining oil and put chopped ginger, garlic and green chillies. Stir them for a few seconds till the raw aroma of ginger and garlic subsides and they turn light brown
- Then put the chopped spring onions and capsicum as well followed by chopped celery. Saute them on a medium-high flame until the capsicum is half or almost cooked
- Put soy sauce, tomato ketchup, black pepper and salt as per your taste and stir them. After this put the pan-fried cauliflower florets in the same pan
- Mix all the ingredients well ensuring that the sauces coat the fried cauliflower florets properly and nicely
- Finally, add rice vinegar and mix again. Switch off the flame once done. Check the taste of the recipe and if needed add sauces or spices as per your preference
- Now garnish the dish with chopped spring onions and greens and finally serve hot Gobi Manchurian
Dry Gobi Manchurian can be served as a snack or a side dish with Fried Rice or Hakka Noodles.
