Swetha’s Cookbook

Mushroom Manchuria

Mushroom Manchurian  is an ideal indo chinese food and it has flavours of exotic spices and
healthy too. Mushroom is very healthy food as it has lots of calcium, vitamins, fibre and minerals. It is perfect food for everyone. Even those who don’t like mushrooms will like this recipe.

Ingredients:

Mushrooms-10
Vinegar-1tsp
Soyasauce-1tsp
Tomatosauce-1tsp
Garlic cloves-4(finely chopped)
Cashew nuts-2tbsp
Coriander leaves-2 springs
Green chillies-4(slit length wise)
Oil-for deep frying and 2tbsp
Curryleaves-2springs
Curd-2tbsp

For batter:

Cornflour-3 ½ tbsp
Maida-5tbsp
Chillipowder- 1tbsp
Salt-to taste
Ginger garlic paste-1tsp
Garammasala-1 1/4 tsp

Preprocess:

1. Boil mushrooms in water by adding vinegar and little salt to water.
2. Cut boiled mushroom from head to tail vertically and then make another cut perpendicular to first cut, in simple words make a deep plus shape cut from head to tail of the mushroom, so that we get 4 pieces out of one mushroom.

Mushroom Manchuria

Procedure:

1. Make a batter by mixing ingredients for batter, the consistency of  this batter should be of dosa batter consistency.
2. Heat oil in a kadai and once oil gets heated dip these mushroom pieces in batter and add one by one to oil and fry till golden brown.
3. Once you take out the pieces from oil after frying place these mushrooms on tissue paper so as to absorb excess oil.
4. Take another pan and heat 2tbsp oil in it and add garlic pieces, green chillies, curryleaves, cashewnuts any fry for 2-3minutes till nice aroma comes out.
5. Add curd to above pan and mix it.
6. Add tomato sauce and deep fried mushroom pieces and mix them and fry them till all the gravy reduces and mushrooms becomes dry.
7. Add soyasauce, coariander leaves and switch off stove.

Serving ideas:
Serve Mushroom Manchuria with tomato sauce.

1. rupali sharma Says:
   February 6th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

   Hi Swetha’s Kitchen:

   Your Mushroom manchuria looks awesome and is really appealing. I will be looking forward for more interesting recipes in your website.

   -Rupali



2. swetha Says:
   February 6th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

   hi rupali,thanks for your comments.for sure i will update my blog regularly, so keep checking for new recipes.



3. Radhika Says:
   February 9th, 2009 at 7:15 am

   aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh mouthwaterin!!!
   u r an awesummmmmmm cook,girl!!



4. anita Says:
   February 9th, 2009 at 8:07 am

   Hai swetha,
   I have been looking for this recipe since a long time.I’m very glad to see the recipe in ur website.Can u please help me in choosing the mushrooms.i mean what kind of mushrooms i have to buy for this recipe as i have never bought mushrooms.Eagerly waiting for your reply.Thanks in advance.



5. swetha Says:
   February 9th, 2009 at 8:45 am

   hi anitha,

   purchase white button mushrooms for this recipe.try this recipe and enjoy it.let me know the results.
   thanks
   swetha



6. swetha Says:
   February 9th, 2009 at 8:49 am

   thanks for your comments radhika.more recipes coming soon.so keep watching.



7. anita Says:
   February 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

   Thanks swetha for your quick reply.I will definitely let you know once i cook.thanks again.