Friday, September 16, 2011

Chinese Manchurian Balls in hot garlic sauce...

I am fond of Chinese cuisine and it is one thing that can bring my mood on right notes,the food offers flavours what i like to eat......little bit of everything from sweet,sour,spicy to tangy.I have been trying to cook the softest crispiest balls from long and putting efforts as an Italian puts for Spaghetti and meatballs.Well the Manchurian balls could be had like a starter and mixed with curry too.They go very well with garlic noodles and fried rice of your choice.
So before starting we would check our pantry for ingredients and then would begin our quest for lovely mouth watering dish to make us go want for more and more.
Ingredients:
1)Green bell pepper small one in number
2)Cabbage shredded thin 1 cup
3)Carrots shredded thin 1 cup
4)Mushrooms,beans and other veggie of your choice 1 cup
5)Bread as binder and brings crispiness too
6)Salt and black pepper for seasoning
7)Corn flour 2 tablespoon for binding
8)Ginger and garlic paste 1 tablespoon
9)Cooking oil for frying

Method for cooking balls:
We take a mixing bowl and start putting our ingredients one by one ,first our veggies then bread and then cornflour and finally ginger garlic paste.The moisture content of veggies gets balanced with bread and cornflour.Finally seasoning of your choice and making round perfect balls out of the mixed batter.One can even add Paneer/Cottagecheese for extra flavour to balls.The balls need to be soft and manageably round.Then we heat our oil and add the balls to the piping hot kadhai/frying pan.
We get golden brown balls ready to be eaten or dipped in sauce of choice. The balls recipe serves two people.

Ingredients for garlic sauce:
1)Tomato puree 2 cups
2)Garlic paste 1 tablespoon
3)Corn flour 1 tablespoon dissolved in water
4)Chilliflakes for seasoning
5)Soya sauce 1 teaspoon
6)Salt to season
7)Oil to cook
8)Chilli sauce if u like hot
Method:
First we take a pan and put oil,then we put add garlic to it and after that we add tomatopuree to it.Let the mixture boil for five minutes and then add chilliflakes ,soya sauce,salt and then after a  boil add corn flour dissolved in water.Once the sauce thickens to our requirement add other sauces u like,even some hint of sugar/honey and vinegar adds flavour .So do as your palate likes.

Serve balls with hot garlic sauce poured over and enjoy with rice or noodles...




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