Cauliflower Manchurian

Hi Friends,

I am back again with a new recipe that I tried today.  It was Cauliflower Manchurian and it turned out nicely!!  I tried this recipe from a different site this time.  It was from http://showmethecurry.com/appetizers/gobi-cauliflower-manchurian-dry.html.  I had heard about this site from a friend and thought of looking for the Manchurian recipe here since they also have video recordings of the recipe.  Luckily I found and tried it out.  Here is a snap of how it turned out :).

Cauliflower Manchurian

Ingredients:
Vegetables:
- Cauliflower (1/2), Onion (1 medium size), Garlic (3-4 cloves), Green chillies (1-2), Green onions (2)

Spices:
- Black pepper, Salt

Other:
- Oil, Water, All purpose flour (maida), corn starch (rice flour as substitute), tomato ketchup, red chilli sauce, soy sauce

Preparation:
- Chop cauliflower into bite size pieces
- Finely chop onion
- Finely chop green chillies, garlic cloves, and green onions
 

Process:
In the process, it is advised to first make the sauce and then cook the cauliflower so that way the sauce can be re-heated and then cauliflower can be mixed with the sauce right away.

1) For gravy:
- In a pan, heat oil
- Add chopped onions, garlic, and green chillies
- Saute everything until oil starts to separate and onions are slightly brown
- Add tomato ketchup (about 3-4 big spoons), red chili sauce (about 3-4 big spoons), and cook for little while
- Then add soy sauce (about 2 spoons), and mix everything
- Add little water and let it cook for while
- Add 1 spoon of corn starch for thickness to the gravy (I didn't have corn starch, so I used rice flour which worked fine)
- Let it all cook for little while and once the gravy is bit thick, switch off the heat.

2) For cauliflower
- In a separate utensil, mix all purpose flour, corn starch (1 spoon), black pepper, and salt
- Add water in it and keep mixing everything to make it a batter (not too thick and not too thin) and make sure there are no lumps in it
- In a separate pan, heat oil to deep fry the cauliflower
- Once the oil is hot, dip the bite size cauliflower pieces into the batter and fry them into the oil
- Once the cauliflower turns slightly brown, you can take them out and keep them aside

3) Mix
- Re-heat the sauce and add the cooked cauliflower pieces
- Mix it with the sauce properly so that each cauliflower piece is coated with the sauce
- Garnish with green onions

This recipe was bit time consuming and hectic since it involved frying the cauliflower which took most of the time.  I had help from my mom who did the frying while I was making the sauce.  I had always wanted to try this recipe out and I finally did, so it certainly feels like mission accomplished :)...hehe.  Hope you enjoy the dish if you decide to make it.

Have a great week ahead :).  See ya!!