Friday, September 9, 2011

Gobi Manchurian 印式中餐【印度酸甜花菜】


During my years in India, I often encountered a question that I could not answer until much later. The question goes : "Can you teach me how to make Gobi Manchurian, the CHINESE FOOD ?"

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Oh yes, you heard it right, a Chinese dish that no Chinese ever heard forget eating back home in China. It is a dish that surely show up on the menu of any Chinese restaurant in India. A dish took me a long time to figure out what it is. Longer time to explain to my Indian friends that Gobi Manchurian is NOT a Chinese dish, and Manchu is NOT a state in China, it refers to the tri-states area up north in China in ancient time, the term Manchu is no longer in use geographically nowadays, Manchurian now refers to one ethnic group in China, and we find no trace of this dish in the Manchu's recipes...."

I could only imagine now that this delicious Indian-Chinese dish was created long back by some well-wished Chinese chef try to make a dish that suits the local taste buds with some local ingredients. It probably is a derivation from the the famous sweet and sour pork dish name guobaorou "锅包肉” from the northern part of China, Just a vegetarian version, with quite a number of modifications!

这道菜的名字直译就是“满洲花菜”,是印度的“中国餐厅”必有的菜式,也是印度人很喜欢的一个“中国菜”。

在印度的时候我经常会遇见印度朋友问到:“你能不能教我做满洲花菜呀?”。让我非常啼笑皆非!后来再遇见这样的问题,我就会说:“满洲花菜不是中国菜!不过,却是最接近中国口味的印度菜!”

我常想,这道菜可能是当年中国人移居印度,受当地食材和当地人口味的影响,由糖醋的做法演变而来的。而事实上是如何?就不得而知了。


Ingredients:
1 head of Cauliflower (Around 500-600 gms)
3  Cow Horn Pepper/or Green pepper if you like

For coating;
2 tbsp Rice flour
1 tbsp corn starch
1 tbsp all purpose flour
1 tbsp oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder

For sauce:
1/4 cup spring onions, finely chopped
1 1/2 tbsp finely minced garlic
1/2 tbsp finely minced ginger
1 tsp red chili Powder (optional)
2 tsp soya sauce
2 tsp apple cider vinegar
3 tbsp tomato sauce
1 tsp brown sugar (optional)
salt as required
1 tsp sesame oil
corn starch

材料:
1 头中型花菜 (大约500-600 gms)切块
3 只 牛角椒

面糊材料:
2 大勺 粘米粉
大勺 面粉
大勺 粟米粉
大勺 食油
1/4 小勺 苏打粉
1/2 
小勺 盐
1/2 
小勺 姜蒜蓉
一撮黄姜粉

酱汁:
1/4 杯葱花
1 1/2 
大勺 蒜蓉
1/2 
大勺 姜蓉
小勺 果醋/白醋
大勺 酱油
1/2 
小勺 香油/麻油
1/2 
小勺 辣椒粉(optional)
小勺 红糖
3 大勺 番茄沙司 (Ketchup)




Some of the ingredients needed.

Cut cauliflower into florets, clean it. Mixed together all ingredient listed under "for the batter" with 3-5 tbsp of water to form a batter.

Heat up 2-3 inches of oil in a frying pan, dip the cauliflower florets into batter and deep fry them into golden brown fritter.

Chopped spring onion, shred ginger and garlic, cut cow horn chilli into small pieces.

Shallow fry the green Chili for about 30 second, this will retain the green colour and crunchiness of Chili.

In another bowl, mix together all ingredients under sauce/gravy but the ginger, garlic and spring onion.

Heat up a tsp of oil in a cooking pan, stir in ginger garlic and half of the spring onion, fry until fragrant.

Pour in the sauce mixture, cook until it thickened, pour in cauliflower fritters and chilli pieces, give it a quick stir until all pieces coated with sauce, sprinkle the remaining spring onion before dish out.

It works well as starter!

把花菜切成块,面糊加入3-5tbsp的水混合。锅里热上2-3寸油,把花菜沾上面糊,入锅炸至金黄色备用。

切葱花,把姜蒜剁成茸,青椒去籽切块,然后稍微热油里过一下,这个步骤可以保持青椒的鲜绿色和清脆的口感。

另外一个碗里把所有酱汁里列出的材料混合。锅里先热上一点油,把姜蒜蓉下锅爆香,加入一半的葱花,一起爆香。然后把混合的酱汁倒入,煮滚,至浓稠,熄火,把花菜和辣椒块倒入拌匀,撒上葱花。就好了。

很好吃的酸甜花菜!


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2 comments:

  1. Simply super!!! I made it last night and we all wiped our plates clean. Thank you.

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  2. Hi Elaine.. I am glad that you liked it!! I love this dish a lot too! That reminds me... I should make it once for my parents...when they are here in the states

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