Fried rice- Manchurian

Fried rice manchurian is an Indo-Chinese dish which is a must have dish in our list whenever we went for dinner in some Chinese restaurant. Fried rice are boiled rice mixed with veggies and sauces. Fried rice is accompanied with manchurian. In manchurian fried vegetables balls are mixed with sauces like soya sauce, chilli sauce and toamto ketchup. For making vegetable balls mostly cabbage, carrots, capsicum is used. But i tried vegetable balls with bottle gourd or lauki or doodhi along with cabbage ,carrots and capsicum.

FOR MANCHURIAN

Servings: 4-5 people

Ingredients:

For making balls:

Lauki or bottle gourd: 1 cup grated

Cabbage:1/2 cup grated

Carrot:1/2 cup grated

Capsicum: 1 chopped

Spring onions: 1/4 cup

French beans: 1/4 cup

Green chillis: 1 chopped

Maida:4 tbsp

Cornflour:3 tbsp

Salt: to taste

Red chilli powder: 1/4 tsp

Black pepper:1/4 tsp

Oil: for deep frying and for making sauce

For making sauce:

Onions: 2 chopped

Spring onions: 1 chopped

Capsicum: 1 chopped

Ginger : 2 tsp chopped

Garlic: 2 tsp chopped

Salt: to taste

Black pepper: 1/2 tsp

Soya sauce: 1 tbsp

Green chilli sauce: 1 tbsp

Red chilli sauce: 1/2 tbsp

Tomato ketchup: 1 tbsp

Water: 2 cup

 

Method:

1.Mix all vegetables along with salt and pepper. Add maida and cornflour and mix them together.Roll the mixture into balls.(Don’t add water as water released by vegetables is enough to bind vegetable balls).

2. Heat oil in a pan or a kadai. Deep fry these vegetable balls till they become golden brown. Place them on absorbent paper so that excess oil can be removed.

3. For making gravy , put 2 tbsp oil in a kadai. Add ginger and garlic and saute for a minute.

4. Add onions, spring onions, capsicum and cook for 3-4 minutes. Add salt, black pepper and all the sauces. Mix the sauces well. Add water and let it simmer till gravy thickens.

5. Add manchurian balls and cook for 2-3 minutes. Manchurian is ready.

FOR FRIED RICE:

Ingredients:

Boiled rice: 1 cup

French beans: 1/4 cup chopped

Capsicum: 1 cut them into cubes

Carrots: 1 chopped

Garlic: 3-4 cloves chopped

Salt: to taste

Soya sauce: 2 tsp

Vinegar: 1 tsp

Black peeper powder: 1/2 tsp

Oil: 2 tbsp

Method: 

1. Heat oil in a pan. Add garlic and saute.

2. Add all veggies in it and cook them continuously stirring . Don’t overcook them, they must have some crunchiness in it.

3. Add salt, black pepper and soya sauce, vineger and mix well.

4. Add rice And mix with veggies and sauces.

Serve fried rice with Vegetable manchurian