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Chinese Fried Rice with Cauliflower Manchurian!

Course Main Dish - Gravies
Cuisine Indo Chinese
Dish Type Cauliflower Dishes
Servings 5
Author Srivalli

Ingredients

For Chinese Fried Rice

  • 3 cups Basmati Rice
  • 1 bunch Spring Onions
  • 1 medium Capsicum
  • 2 cups Chopped Vegetables Beans, Carrot and Cabbage
  • Salt to taste
  • 1/4 tsp Ajinomoto
  • 2 tbsp Soya Sauce
  • 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
  • 2 tbsp Oil
  • 1 tbsp Pepper

For Cauliflower Manchurian

To make the Manchurian

  • 250 gms Cauliflower
  • 2" Ginger
  • 4 pods Garlic
  • 3 nos Green Chillies
  • 1 cup All Purpose Flour / Maida
  • 1 & 1/2 tbsp Corn Flour
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for deep frying

To make the Sauce

  • 1 & 1/2 tbsp Soya Sauce
  • 1 & 1/2 tbsp Tomato Sauce
  • 1 tbsp Corn Flour
  • Salt to taste
  • 4 pods Garlic
  • 1 bunch Spring Onions

Instructions

To make Chinese Fried Rice

  • Clean and soak rice for 15 mins. Pressure cook with 4 & 1/2 cups of water. Since the rice has to be non sticky and separate, you can even reduce quarter cup of water. You can either pressure cook or cook directly on stove. Once it is cooked, remove and spread it on a plate so that you have each grain separate.
  • Chop all vegetables finely. Onion bulbs can be chopped as circles. The stock is saved to be used for garnish. Rest of the vegetables can be chopped finely.
  • Heat a wok or Kadai. Add 2 tbsp of Oil, to this add cumin seeds. When it splutters, add chopped spring onions. Fry well, then add all the chopped vegetables. Sauté well with the flame high. To the effect the restaurant effect of smoke, tilt the kadai to a side and let the vegetables catch the flames. You will see the vegetables frying in oil catches the smoke from the flame. Keep sautéing till the vegetables are crisp and cooked. This dish requires the vegetables to be crisp and not over cooked.
  • Then add Ajinomoto, salt and Soya sauce. Sauté well. Slowly add the cooked rice and mix well. Add the pepper and adjust the salt. sprinkle the spring onion stocks over the rice.
  • Every step in this needs to be cooked on high flame.

To make Cauliflower Manchurian

    For Manchurian

    • Clean and cut cauliflower to small pieces. It shouldn't be too small. Fill enough to just cover the florets, add salt and bring to boil. After 5 minutes, drain the water. Cover with lid and leave it aside.
    • In a bowl, take the flours and mix with little water to have a batter that's quite thin. Make a paste of garlic, ginger and green chillies. Ensure its not a fine paste, little coarse, it adds more taste. You get about 2 tsp, keep little for the sauce. Add this paste to the flour mixture. Drain the cauliflower and keep it ready.
    • Meanwhile heat a pan of oil. Once its really hot, dip each florets and drop gently into the hot oil. Cook on both sides and drain to a kitchen towel.

    For the Sauce

    • Heat a pan and add 1 tsp oil, Chop spring onions, garlic finely. Sauté just the onion bulbs along with chopped garlic. Keep aside.
    • Then add ginger garlic and chilli paste. Simmer and Add little water to corn flour to make a liquid, to this add Soya sauce. Once paste is fried, add this sauce along with tomato sauce. Adjust salt. Fry on high flame so that the sauce thickens. Just make sure it doesn't become too thick.
    • Add fried cauliflower, fried onions and garlic along with green spring onions stocks. simmer for 1 min. I make more of the fried cauliflower as we tend to eat it as such. If you don't want the cauliflower to be too soggy, you can add just few pieces and add all of them later. But soaked pieces gives the real taste!
    • Remove and serve with Fried rice. This turns out to be a very satisfying combination.
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