Recipe to prepare gobi manchurian:

Preparation:

• Clean and chop cauliflower into florets.
• Fine chop onion, green onions, ginger, garlic.
• Prepare red chilli paste by grinding 6 soaked red chillies with some water. Keep it ready.

Detailed recipe:

• Boil hot water in a vessel, add cleaned cauliflower pieces into the hot water, and keep just for five mins.
• Drain the pieces and spread in a kitchen towel to remove extra water. Keep aside.

Make batter:

• In a big mixing bowl, add corn flour, all purpose or maida flour, salt one by one.
• Add chilli powder, pepper, ginger garlic paste in the bowl and mix everything.
• Pour approximately a cup of water to prepare the batter. Add more water if needed to make a thin batter. If you like pieces to fry with heavy coat then you can make a slightly thick batter. I prefer this way.
• Dip all the soaked and drained cauliflower pieces, coat with the batter evenly.

How to fry:

• Meanwhile, heat required oil to deep fry. Oil should be hot but not smoking hot.
• Drop the coated pieces one by one carefully into the hot oil. Do not drop pieces together. And avoid crowding. Give enough space for the pieces to cook.
• Fry them in medium heat. Leave undisturbed until they come up one by one.
• Stir occasionally.
• When the pieces are fried to light brown, strain them and keep aside. In restaurants, they do double frying for extra crispness. Here I showed how to do the double frying.
• Let the fried pieces cool down for a while, and drop them again into hot oil, fry for two more minutes.
• Keep the double fried pieces ready.

How to make gobi manchurian sauce:

• Heat 2 tbsp oil, in a pan or iron wok. Keep the flame in high temperature.
• Add finely chopped onions.
• Roast them nicely in high flame to golden brown color.
• Add ginger and garlic chopped.
• Now add 3 tsp of soya sauce. Mix well.
• Add a tbsp of tomato ketchup. You can use tomato sauce or just tomato puree also with some salt.
• Add red chilli paste, which we prepared. Alternatively, you can add red chilli sauce.
• Saute the ingredients continuously in high flame until you get a nice aroma.
• Add chopped green onions.
• Pour half cup of water and mix well.
• Prepare cornflour mix, by adding 1 tsp cornflour with some water. Add this mix into the manchurian sauce.
• Stir the sauce continuously to avoid lumps formation. When the corn flour gets cooked, you will get a clear glassy look as shown in the picture.
• Add a pinch of red food color if you like bright red colored manchurian. I prefer its own color, so I didn’t add red color.
• Also, you can add ajinomoto(taste enhancer) at this stage if you like. I didn’t add.
• Now add the fried cauliflower or gobi pieces into the manchurian sauce.
• Mix the pieces with the sauce nicely to coat them evenly with the sauce.
• Add chopped green onions. Give a quick mix.
• Serve the hot and juicy gobi manchurian or cauliflower manchurian as a starter or side dish for fried rice.