baby corn manchurian recipe
Author:
EasyRecipes .
Recipe type: Appetiser
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 4
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baby corn manchurian – an excellent starter of fried batter coated baby corn stir fried in a spicy, sweet & umami indo chinese sauce.
Ingredients
- for making the batter:
- 1 packet of babycorn
- 1 small capsicum/green bell pepper – julienned or chopped (optional)
- 2 tbsp cornflour/corn starch
- 4 tbsp all purpose flour/maida
- ½ tsp ginger garlic paste (optional)
- ½ tsp black pepper powder or crushed black pepper
- water as required
- salt as required
- oil for shallow frying the babycorn
- for the manchurian sauce.
- 2 spring onions, chopped – reserve some greens for garnishing
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 green chili, finely chopped
- ½ inch ginger, finely chopped
- 4-5 garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp tomato sauce
- ½ tsp black pepper powder or crushed black pepper
- ½ tsp red chilli powder
- ½ tbsp finely chopped celery
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil or sesame oil
- salt and sugar as required
Instructions
- preparing the batter:
- rinse the baby corn in water.
- chop them if they are slightly big.
- in a bowl mix all the dry ingredients listed under the batter ingredients except for baby corn and oil.
- add water and make a thick batter.
- dip the baby corn in the batter and coat them evenly.
- shallow fry the baby corn till they are golden brown and crisp.
- preparing the sauce.
- heat oil in a wok or kadai.
- add the spring onions and stir fry till they become transparent.
- add the ginger, garlic, green chilies and celery.
- stir fry for a minute.
- now add the soy sauce & tomato sauce.
- stir and mix well.
- add the fried baby corn.
- stir and season with salt, sugar, pepper & red chilli powder.
- stir again till the sauce coats the baby corn evenly.
- serve baby corn manchurian hot garnished with spring onion greens.
Notes
please note i have not added any capsicum to the manchurian as i did not have them. the amount of sauces and spice powders can be adjusted.