Make amazing crispy dry gobi manchurian to go with your noodles, fried rice or simply as snack with my easy recipe. Tastes excellent and just like the ones from your favorite takeaways, in fact better! Crispy fried cauliflower florets quickly tossed in a flavor packed manchurian sauce! Vegan recipe!

If you like Indian take in chinese recipes, I am sure you love our street food fare, flavorful schezwan noodles, hakka noodles, fried rice and manchurians.

Speaking of manchurians, there are so many avatars it take with various meats or veggies.

While chicken manchurian is most popular one, gobi manchurian or cauliflower manchurian is most loved among vegetarians. This recipe is also vegan. You might also like

Cauliflower or gobi is my favorite vegetable and thankfully there are so many recipes we can make with gobi. Right from baked cauliflower bites to aloo gobi to gobi paratha to fried cauliflower to gobi 65, tandoori gobi, there are literally tons of ways one can eat cauliflower.

This gobi manchurian is just another tasty cauliflower recipe with that sweet, sour and spicy indo Chinese touch.

Crispy deep fried cauliflower florets, tossed in hot manchurian sauce served with a generous dose of spring onion greens is surely a treat for everyone.

What Is Gobi Manchurian?

Gobi manchurian is a popular Indo Chinese starter where crispy fried cauliflower florets are tossed in a manhcurian gravy along with some sauces. The finished dish is served with loads of spring onion greens.

This delicious crispy starter is a hit in street shops, restaurants and even your house parties. Just fry the cauliflower and prepare the sauce ahead and toss just before serving.

Serve cauliflower manchurian hot as starter or side dish with fried rice, veg noodles,baby corn fried rice, paneer fried rice.

You can serve this dish in three ways. Dry manchurian, semi dry or gravy manchurian.

The dry version is usually served as appetizer while the gravy goes well as side dish. I absolutely love the dry version even as side dish. Here I am sharing a super crispy cauliflower manchurian recipe with very less sauce.

The sauce in this recipe is just enough to give some flavor to cauliflower florets and it doesn’t make the fried gobi soggy at all.

Do try this yummy recipe and I am sure you will not miss takeaways any more.

This Gobi Manchurian Recipe Is

Super delicious, crispy and flavor packed.

Vegan recipe & can be made gluten free

Just like your favorite takeaways

Easy & straight forward recipe

tastes best with noodles, fried rice

always a hit with kids

Tips To Make Cauliflower Manchurian

Though this is a super simple recipe for making gobi manchurian, here are few tips that will help you make this recipe perfectly.

1. Use fresh and tender cauliflower with dense florets. The quality of gobi is super important in this recipe.

2. Make the manchurian sauce first and fry the gobi florets just before serving to retain the crispiness.

3. My manchurian sauce recipe does not use any corn flour. Use good quality soy sauce, if possible use dark naturally brewed soy sauce for good flavor.

4. Good vinegar is a must in this cauliflower manchurian recipe. I prefer to use rice vinegar but you can use any good quality one.

5. To get the authentic flavor of gobi manchurian use sesame oil. As with an indo chinese recipe good sesame oil adds flavor leaps and bounds.

6. To make gobi florets more crispy, you can double fry them too.

7. Once you toss the fried gobi in manchurian sauce serve it immedietly.

Cauliflower Manchurian FAQs

Can You Make Gobi Manchurian Without Maida? To make gobi mancurian without maida you can easily use wheat flour or chickpea flour. There may be slight difference in taste but surely a healthier.

How To Make Gobi Manchurian in Oven?

To make cauliflower manchurian in oven mix the flours mentioned for batter in the recipe well

Add the blanched cauliflower florets and toss well. Just sprinkle some water for flours to coat the gobi.

Arrange the batter coated cauliflower florets on a large greased baking sheet as single layer.

Bake in the preheated oven at 220C for 25-30 minutes.

Prepare the manchurian gravy as mentioned in the recipe and toss the baked gobi. Serve.

You can also make cauliflower manchurian in air fryer following the same method.

How to make gluten free gobi manchurian?

To make this recipe gluten free just skip plain flour in the batter and use chickpea flour in the batter

Make sure the soy sauce you use is gluten free.

Step By Step Method

Manchurian Sauce

Heat 3 teaspoons oil in a wok or pan. Add the crushed ginger and garlic. Saute till the raw smell goes off.

Add the spring onions and saute well. Next add chopped onions,green chilies and saute well for 2 minutes.

Now add the chopped bell pepper, onion mix well. Saute in high flame for 3 minutes.

Add soy sauce, vinegar, tomato paste, hot sauce or chili sauce.

Add 3/4 cup water salt to taste and freshly cracked black or white pepper.

Bring the sauce to a boil and simmer for 3-4 minutes. Set aside.

Batter fried cauliflowers

Rinse and separate the cauliflower into bite size florets.

Bring water to rapid boil in a large pan. Add salt and the rinsed cauliflower florets. Let cauliflower florets cook for 3 minutes.

Drain and rinse immediate in cold water to stop over cooking.

Into a mixing bowl add plain flour, salt, chili powder, corn flour, sesame seeds if using.

Add the par boiled cauliflower florets.

Toss well and add 2-3 tablespoons water to just coat the flours.

Heat oil for deep frying. Once the oil is hot but not smoking, maintain medium flame.

Add 4-5 gobi florets depending on the size of the pan.

Fry from all sides until crispy and golden, about 2-3 minutes for each batch.

Drain and set aside.

Assembling and serving gobi manchurian

Add the fried cauliflower florets in the prepared sauce and toss well. Garnish with more sesame seeds and chopped spring onion greens.

Serve gobi mancurian immediately .

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