Baby Corn Manchuria

While I was in India we used to go to a restaurant named “Southern Spice” very often, they have some real wonderful dishes like chicken fry and baby corn Manchuria; I love the baby corn Manchuria that they serve; During that time I did not know that all these food can be prepared at home and whenever I feel like eating I used to have it from restaurant;

But after moving to US, mostly preparing everything possible at home using online recipes considering the taste/cost that the hotels food has; Big thanks to the online recipes that we have these days;

Baby corn Manchuria is one such tempting indo-Chinese appetizer that I learned from online recipes and I usually prepare it for evening snack;

 Ingredients:

1.    Baby corn cut into 1.5” pieces, wash and keep aside - 10

2.    Medium sized onion + 2 green chilles, make fine paste

3.    Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp

4.    Salt, to taste

5.    Corn Starch – 2 ½ tbsp

6.    All purpose flour – 1 ½ cup

7.    Garlic Cloves, chopped into small pieces - 4

8.    Onion, sliced thin – 1

9.    Green chillies, slit length wise – 3

10. Bell Pepper (capsicum), cut into cubes – 1

11. Red Chilli Ginger paste – 2 tbsp

12. Ketchup – 4 tbsp

13. Soy Sauce – 2 tbsp

14. Spring onion – 2 tbsp

15. Oil, for deep fry

Method:

1.    Take all purpose flour, 2 tbsp of corn starch, onion+chilli paste, ginger garlic paste salt into a bowl and make a thick paste; Adjust salt per taste;

2.    Heat oil in a kadai for deep fry; Once oil is hot, dip washed baby corn into the batter and make sure it’s well coated; Drop these coated baby corns into oil and deep fry until they turn golden brown;

3.    Repeat the same process for remaining baby corns and transfer fried pieces into a oil absorbent paper;

4.    Heat a heavy bottomed vessel, add 1 tbsp of oil, add chopped garlic and make sure garlic turns golden brown color;

5.    Then add onions and green chillies, fry them for 6 mins; Add capsicum to it and cook for another 4 mins;

6.    Add soy sauce, red chilli ginger paste and ketchup; Mix them well and cook for 2 mins; Adjust salt if necessary;

7.    Add fried baby corn pieces to this mixture and cook for 3 mins on low flame;

8.    In a small bowl or cup, take 2 tbsp of water, add ½ tbsp of corn starch, mix well; Spread this corn starch liquid on top of baby corn pieces; This helps the sauce to get thick;

9.    Cook it another 2 mins and turn-off stove;

10. Garnish with spring onions;

Yummy baby corn Manchuria is ready to be served; Hope you will try this at you home and get nice compliments;