Vegetable Balls In Hot Garlic Sauce

Ingredients For Making Vegetable Balls

• • Carrots (finely cut) - ¼ cup
• • Cabbages (finely cut) - ¼ cup
• • Beans (finely cut) - ¼ cup
• • Bread crumbs (fresh) - ½ cup
• • Corn flour - 2 tablespoons
• • Salt - as required
• • Ajinomoto - ¼ teaspoon
• • White pepper - ¾ teaspoon
• • Soya sauce - 1 tablespoon
• • Egg - 1
• • Oil (for deep frying) - as required

Ingredients For Making Hot Garlic Sauce

• • Garlic - 7 flakes
• • Green chillies - 5
• • Ajinomoto - ½ teaspoon
• • Sugar - 1 teaspoon
• • Tomato sauce - ¼ cup
• • Soya sauce - 1 ½ tablespoons
• • White pepper powder - 1 ½ teaspoons
• • Salt - as required
• • Corn flour - 1 ½ tablespoons
• • Spring onions - 3
• • Oil (for frying) - as required

Method To Prepare Vegetable Balls

• 1. Stir fry vegetables in little oil with Ajinomoto for 2 minutes.
• 2. Allow to cool and mix with salt, soya sauce, beaten egg, pepper, bread crumbs and corn flour.
• 3. If necessary, sprinkle little water and make small lemon sized balls from that.
• 4. Deep fry in hot oil till it turns dark brown in colour. Keep aside.

Method To Prepare Sauce

• 1. Remove seeds from chillies and cut into very fine pieces.
• 2. Cut garlic and spring onions, onion stem into tiny pieces.
• 3. Heat oil and fry onions, garlic, chillies with Ajinomoto in high flame for 2 minutes.
• 4. Mix tomato sauce, soya sauce, salt, sugar, pepper and corn flour together with one cup water.
• 5. Pour it to the frying pan, stirring constantly till a shiny thick sauce is formed.
• 6. Arrange vegetable balls in a serving dish. Pour hot sauce on top. Garnish with chopped spring onion stem. Serve hot.