Nikitasa Mishra
10 min readDec 1, 2023

Manchurian Recipe | Veg Manchurian (Dry And Gravy)

Veg Manchurian is a delectable Indo Chinese dish of seared veggie balls in a zesty, sweet and tart sauce. There are 2 well known varieties of making veg manchurian.

Veg Manchurian Sauce (With Sauce) - Makes for a scrumptious Chinese Fundamental Course. Goes best with seared rice, schezwan broiled rice or steamed rice.
Veg Manchurian Dry - A great starter nibble or as a side dish with hakka noodles or chow mein.
Both the recipes taste great and are imparted to bit by bit photographs. You can make both of them according to your decision. Model: you can make veg manchurian dry as a starter tidbit or veg manchurian sauce for a Chinese primary course.

Instructions to make Manchurian Sauce or Sauce
For simplicity of perusing, I have separated this post into 3 principal parts.

Stage 1 - making veg manchurian balls
Stage 2 - broiling veg manchurian balls
Stage 3 - making manchurian sauce or sauce
Lets start with stage 1 - Making vegetable balls

1. Take the finely cleaved or ground veggies in a bowl. you will require ½ cup finely cleaved red cabbage, ½ cup ground carrot, ¼ cup finely slashed capsicum (green chime pepper), ¼ cup finely hacked french beans and ¼ cup finely hacked spring onions.

You can likewise add customary green cabbage rather than red or purple cabbage.

Then add the dry fixings - 2 tablespoons corn starch, 2 tablespoons regular baking flour (maida), ½ teaspoon dark pepper and ½ teaspoon salt or add as required.

Blend and assemble the entire combination. Then sort of blend and manipulate so the veggies leave the water and you get a batter like combination. However, don't work appreciate that a bread or roti mixture. Gluten strands can frame that will give a thick chewy surface in the seared veggie balls. So blend well overall and press so the veggies discharge their juices.
Then take a little piece of the blend in your grasp.

Press and roll it in your palm and make a round veggie ball.

Make all veggie balls along these lines and keep to the side. You can spread some oil on your palms while making the vegetable balls.

Stage 2 - Searing vegetable balls

Heat oil for profound searing in a kadai or dish. Add a little piece of a ball to the hot oil. In the event that the balls doesn't stick or settle down at the lower part of the skillet, however comes up consistently the oil is prepared for searing these veggie balls. In the event that the balls break, some really restricting specialist is required. So you can add 2 to 3 teaspoons of some more regular baking flour (maida).

Delicately place the balls in the hot oil. The oil must be medium hot. An excessive amount of intensity and the manchurian balls will be seared from top and uncooked from inside. Less hot oil will cause the balls to retain an excess of oil.

When cooked from one side, turn the balls with an opened spoon.

Sear the balls till fresh and brilliant turning them over multiple times. Eliminate them with an opened or punctured spoon and channel however much as oil as could reasonably be expected.

Put the seared manchurian balls on kitchen paper towels. For a low-fat rendition, you can cook the veggie balls in an appe-appam skillet or æbleskiver dish. Sear the veg balls this way in clusters and keep to the side.

Stage 3: Making the sauce
In a little bowl take the accompanying three sauces - ½ tablespoon soy sauce (or 1.5 teaspoons soy sauce), 1 tablespoon ketchup, 2 to 3 teaspoons of red stew sauce. The red bean stew sauce is zesty and not sweet.

Blend the sauces quite well and keep to the side.

In another little bowl take 1 tablespoon cornflour (corn starch) and 2 tablespoons water. Blend quite well and keep to the side.

Heat 1 to 1.5 tablespoons oil in a container or wok. Add 4 tablespoons cleaved spring onions (scallions), 1 tablespoon finely slashed ginger, 1 tablespoon finely hacked garlic, 2 green chilies (finely hacked) and ¼ cup finely cleaved capsicum (green ringer pepper).
It is discretionary to Add capsicum. You can utilize toasted sesame oil or sunflower oil or any unbiased tasting oil.

Pan sear on medium fire till the onions turn clear.
Presently add the blended sauces.
Mix and blend quite well.
Add 1 to 1.25 cups water.
Allow the combination to reach boiling point.
Blend the corn flour glue again in the bowl (as the corn flour settles at the base) and afterward include the container.

When you add corn flour glue, blend very well so there are no protuberances.

Proceed to mix and blend when the manchurian sauce is cooking. Stew till the manchurian sauce thickens and you see a coating in it. There ought to be no crude taste of the cornflour in the sauce.
Cooking sauce or sauce takes around 3 to 4 minutes on a medium fire. In the event that the sauce is excessively thick, you add some water. In the event that it is excessively slight, you can add some cornflour.
At the point when the manchurian sauce thickens, add ½ teaspoon dark pepper powder.
Season with a touch of salt. Do remember that the soy sauce, stew sauce and ketchup as of now has salt in it. So add less salt and according as you would prefer inclinations.
Add ¼ to ½ teaspoon sugar or more whenever required. Blend well indeed.

Then add the seared vegetable balls. Likewise add 1 teaspoon rice vinegar or normal vinegar or apple juice vinegar.
Delicately mix and coat the broiled vegetable balls in the sauce.
Switch off the fire and add cleaved spring onion greens.
Serve Veg Manchurian Sauce hot embellished with some spring onion greens (scallion greens). It works out in a good way for veg broiled rice or schezwan seared rice or plain steamed rice or noodles and even bread or roti.

Dry Vegetable Manchurian
Veg Manchurian Dry is a fresh starter nibble of seared veg balls threw in the hot, sweet, tart manchurian sauce.

It is one of the dishes that we request when we eat in an Indian-Chinese café. It is one of my #1 dish from youth. I have been making veg manchurian from my teenagers. I make both sauce and the dry forms.
On events I make this dry manchurian rendition as a side dish with veg noodles.
The main time partaking in making dry vegetable manchurian is the grinding or cleaving the veggies. So the recipe carves out opportunity to get ready with broiling the vegetable balls and afterward setting up the sauce.

For less work you can make the veg balls a day prior and use them the following day. You could in fact utilize a food processor of a food chopper to facilitate your work.

Serve Veg Manchurian Dry as a starter nibble or as a side dish with Hakka Noodles or Veg Chow Mein.

Bit by bit
For simplicity of understanding, I have partitioned this post in 3 fundamental parts:

Stage 1 - Setting up the veggie balls
Stage 2 - Broiling veggie balls
Stage 3 - Making veg manchurian dry
Lets start with stage 1 - Setting up the Veggie Balls

Take the finely slashed or ground veggies in a bowl. Here I added ½ cup finely slashed red cabbage, ½ cup ground carrot, ¼ cup finely hacked capsicum (green ringer pepper), ¼ cup finely cleaved french beans, ¼ cup finely cleaved spring onions (scallions).
Add the dry fixings - 2 tablespoons corn starch, 2 tablespoons regular baking flour, ½ teaspoon dark pepper and ½ teaspoon salt or add as required.

Assemble the entire blend and sort of blend and work so the veggies leave the water and you get a batter like combination.

Take a little piece of the combination in your grasp.

Press and roll it in your palm.
Furthermore, make a round veggie ball.
Make all veggie balls along these lines and keep to the side.

Stage 2 - Searing Veggie Balls

Heat oil for profound searing in a kadai or skillet. Add a little piece of ball to the hot oil. On the off chance that the balls doesn't stick or settle down at the lower part of the skillet, however comes up consistently the oil is prepared for broiling these veg manchurian balls.

Delicately place the balls in the hot oil. The oil must be medium hot. An excessive amount of intensity and the manchurian balls will be seared from top and uncooked from inside. Less hot oil will cause the balls to retain a lot of oil.
When cooked from one side, turn the balls with an opened spoon.
Sear the balls till fresh and brilliant.
Eliminate them with an opened or punctured spoon and channel however much as oil as could reasonably be expected.
Put the seared veg manchurian balls on kitchen paper towels. For a low-fat rendition, you can cook the veggie balls in an appe or appam container or æbleskiver skillet.
Broil the veg balls this way in bunches and keep to the side

Stage 3 - Making Veg Manchurian Dry
When the veggie balls are broiled, then the time has come to make the sauce. In another skillet, heat about ½ tbsp of similar oil in which we seared the balls or toasted sesame oil. Add ½ tablespoon finely hacked garlic, ½ tablespoon finely cleaved ginger and 1 or 2 green chilies, finely slashed.
Mix and sauté briefly on a low fire.
Add ¼ cup cleaved spring onions (scallions) or onions.
Mix and sauté till the onions relax.
Presently add the sauces - ½ tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon ketchup and 1 teaspoon red bean stew sauce or green bean stew sauce. Note that the green stew sauce or red bean stew sauce ought to be zesty and not sweet.
Blend and mix well overall.

Keep the fire on the lower side and sprinkle ¼ teaspoon corn starch (corn flour). Adding corn starch is discretionary. Adding corn starch gives a decent coating to the manchurian sauce.
Blend and mix well indeed.
Immediately add ¼ teaspoon dark pepper and salt as required. Mix once more. In the wake of adding corn starch the sauce will start to thicken, so one must be fast. Keep a beware of the salt as the soy sauce, ketchup and bean stew sauce as of now have salt in them. So add less salt.
Then add the broiled veg manchurian balls.
Throw and blend so the sauce covers the veggie balls uniformly.
Switch off the fire and add ½ teaspoon rice vinegar or standard white vinegar.
Throw and mix once more. Serve Veg Manchurian Dry hot as a starter nibble embellished with some spring onion greens (scallion greens).

For Vegetable Balls
▢½ cup ground carrot
▢½ cup finely hacked cabbage (purple or green)
▢¼ cup finely hacked green chime pepper (capsicum)
▢¼ cup finely hacked spring onions (scallions)
▢½ teaspoon newly squashed dark pepper or dark pepper powder or white pepper powder
▢2 tablespoons regular flour
▢2 tablespoons cornflour (corn starch)
▢½ teaspoon salt or add according to taste
▢oil as expected, for shallow or profound searing - sunflower oil or any nonpartisan tasting oil
For Corn Starch Or Cornflour Glue
▢1 tablespoon cornflour (known as corn starch outside india)
▢2 tablespoons water
For Sauce Or Sauce
▢1 to 1.5 tablespoons oil - toasted sesame oil or sunflower oil or any nonpartisan tasting oil
▢4 tablespoons finely hacked onions or cleaved spring onion whites (scallion whites)
▢1 tablespoon finely hacked ginger
▢1 tablespoon finely hacked garlic
▢2 green chillies - finely hacked
▢¼ cup finely hacked capsicum (green ringer pepper) - discretionary
▢1 tablespoon finely hacked celery (discretionary)
▢½ tablespoon soy sauce
▢1 tablespoon ketchup
▢2 to 3 teaspoons red stew sauce (zesty and not sweet)
▢1 teaspoon rice vinegar or normal white vinegar or apple juice vinegar
▢1 to 1.25 cups water or vegetable stock
▢½ teaspoon dark pepper powder or newly squashed dark pepper or white pepper powder
▢salt to taste
▢¼ to ½ teaspoon crude sugar to taste or white sugar - add as required
▢1 tablespoon spring onion greens (scallion greens) for embellishing.

Enjoy 😋