Veg Ball Manchurian with Lauki and Paneer

Today I am coming back with one of the most wanted and popular recipes which is Veg Ball Manchurian. This is my favorite also. And it's very easy to make and pocket-friendly too.
And people enjoy it heartily too. Chatpata and crunchy flavor make the person go crazy over this.

Let's move to the recipe:

Ingredients:

For Veg Balls-
1. Cabbage grated- 1 Cup
2. Carrot grated- 1/2 Cup
3. Capsicum - 1/4 Cup
4. Green chili chopped - 1 TBS
5. Pepper powder - 1 TBS
6. Maida - 3 Spoon (optional, you can use oats powder as replacement)
7. Corn flour - 3 Spoon
8. Salt - According to taste
9. Refined oil - 1 cup of deep frying (you can do it shallow fry also)

For gravy -

1. Ginger strips - 10 Stripes
2. Garlic chopped - 2 TBS
3. Green chili slit - 2 Piece
4. Onion  chopped in stripes - 2
5. Capsicum chopped in stripes - 1
6. Chili Sauce - 2 Spoon
7. Tomato Sauce - 4 Spoon
8. Ching's Veg Manchurian Masala - 2 Spoon
9. Pepper powder - 2 TBS
10. Soya sauce - 1 TBS
11. Salt - According to taste
12. Refined oil - 2 Spoon

Recipe - for Veg ball
1. Take a big bowl, add all vegetables.
2. Now add salt, pepper, maida, and cornflour and mix well.
3. Check if you can bind them in a ball, if not then add little more cornflour/maida.
4. Make balls and keep aside.
5. Take a frying pan, heat the oil in it.
6. Now fry all balls and keep them aside.

For Gravy -
1. Heat frying pan and add refined oil, add ginger, garlic, and green chili. saute for one minute till the aroma comes.
2. Now add onion and saute till it turns translucent.
3. Now add capsicum and saute for one more minute.
4. Add pepper powder and salt and saute for one more minute.
5. Add soy sauce, chili sauce, and tomato sauce and mix well.
6. make a slurry of chings masala and add to the sauteed vegetables.
7. Add little water and mix well, once done add balls and fry for two minutes.

It is ready to serve. You can enjoy this like a starter.

For enjoying with roti or fried rice make little more gravy with adding a slurry of cornflour and more water. Give a boil to the gravy and then add balls and let it boil for two minutes and then you can serve it with any roti like naan, tandoori roti, with noodles and fried rice.

Now the final twist to the recipe -
1. You can replace cabbage with grated Lauki. Follow the recipe.
2. You can also use crumbled paneer and grated cabbage in the ratio of 0.75:0.25. Here, you need to dip the balls when you are going to have it. If you will put and boil then it will break in the gravy. While frying also, does not overburden the oil and gently fry them.
3. You can use grated cauliflower in place of grated cabbage.

Enjoy the variation of veg ball Manchurian with your loved ones...Till then Bye..will be back in a while.


Bye bye, yummy mummies!!!