Baby Corn Manchurian

Baby Corn Manchurian is an Indo-Chinese starter liked by most of them. Baby Corn Manchurian is also considered as one of the street foods of India. What a nice way to have the corn and veggies combined with variety of sauces that gives a lip-smacking taste all in one go.......!

Ingredients:

For Frying Baby Corn:

1. Baby Corn - 10 to 15 nos. 

2. All purpose flour / Maida - 1/4 cup

3. Cornflour - 1/4 cup

4. Red chilly powder - 2 tsp.

5. Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp.

6. Salt to taste

7. Water to make the batter

8. Oil for frying

For the sauce:

1. Capsicums - 1 no.
2. Spring Onions - few

3. Green Chilies - 4 to 5 no.

4. Ginger - small piece

5. Garlic pods - 6 to 7 no.

6. Soya sauce - 1 tsp.

7. Red Chilly sauce - 1 tsp.

8. Tomato sauce - 2 tbsp. 

9. Vinegar - 1 tsp.

10. Oil - 2 tbsp.

Fried Babycorn

Cooking Method:

1. First cut the baby-corn diagonally into 4 pieces and set aside.

2. To prepare the batter, first take the all purpose flour, corn flour, red chilly powder, ginger and garlic paste in a bowl and make the medium thick batter adding salt.

3. Heat oil in a pan and dip the baby corn one by one in the batter until its well coated and deep fry them till golden brown in low-medium flame. Fry them in batches and remove them onto an absorbent paper.

4. For sauce preparation, first get set by chopping the spring onions and garlic finely. Chop the capsicums and green chilies lengthwise. Finally make a paste of ginger too.

5.  Now heat oil in a deep bottomed pan, and in high flame, add garlic followed by ginger, capsicums, spring onions (reserving some for final garnish) and green chilies one after other. Do not overcook the veggies here as it may loose out the crunchiness.

6. Immediately add all the sauces here except the tomato sauce,  adding the fried baby corns and give them a good stir. Add the tomato sauce finally tossing all of them while garnishing them with chopped spring onions and serve Baby Corn Manchurian immediately.