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Fish Manchurian

Published: Mar 3, 2020 · Modified: Mar 28, 2023 by JAYANTHY · This post may contain amazon or my other affiliate links · 3 Comments

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Fish Manchurian is a simple ,delicious and easy recipe to prepare with in few minutes. It is an amazing appetizer and perfect to serve as a starter in parties and snack for kids. Sweet ,spicy and slightly sour is the taste of this delicious dish and no one would say no and ask for more. There are two ways of preparing fish manchurian. Some boil fish chunks, fry, add sauce and toss with cornflour slurry . But, I prefer to pan fry fish first and then toss with chinese sauces and garnish with spring onions . This recipe calls for Indian spices and chinese sauces and hence it is an Indo – Chinese dish.

Fish Manchurian

Variations of Fish Manchurian

Fish manchurian can either be Dry or Gravy/Saucy as per your taste. I like dry and hence reduced sauces and cornstarch slurry to the recipe. Adding vegetables like coloured bell peppers and spring onions add crunchy taste to the dish. Spring onion is a must for this recipe and if it is not available do skip the recipe. For gravy/saucy manchurian the recipe is same and you need to add more cornstarch to achieve the consistency.The saucy variation goes well with fried rice and some prefer to have with Indian flat breads.

How to make Fish Manchurian?

To prepare this exotic delicacy ,Seer fish is perfect for making this dish. Firstly make small chunks or pieces of fish and keep separately. Add 2 tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 tablespoon of all purpose flour and half salt to the fish chunks and pan fry fish until crisp and keep separately.

For making gravy, first chop vegetables to cube size and chop spring onion finely. In a pan or wok use the leftover fried oil and heat on high flame and add crushed garlic ,chopped onion ,bell pepper to it and saute slightly. Add soy sauce,chilli sauce,sweet chilli sauce and tomato ketchup and stir well. In a small bowl add ¾ teaspoon cornstarch to little water and make slurry mix. Mix slurry to the vegetables and cook until it forms thick gravy. Add fried fish and toss well until it is well coated on each pieces of fried fish chunks. Finally garnish with fresh chopped spring onions which is an essential vegetable to enhance the flavour of Fish Manchurian. It is ready to serve with any piping hot fried rice or can serve as snack for kids. Lets jump to the recipe with step by step preparation.

Fish Manchurian

Preparation Time : 15 minutes

Cooking Time : 15 minutes

Servings : 4

Ingredients for Frying

King Fish – ½ kg

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Corn flour – 2 tbsp

All purpose flour – 1 tbsp

Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

Pepper powder – ½ tsp

Chilli powder – 1 tablespoon ( to taste)

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Salt – ¼ teaspoon

Oil – ¼ cup

For making Gravy

Onion – 1 (medium size)

Red Bell pepper – 1

Yellow Bell pepper – 1

Spring Onions – 1 bunch

Garlic cloves – 3 (crushed)

Green chillies -2

Chilli flakes – 1 tsp

Soy sauce – 1 tbsp

Chilli sauce – 1 tsp

Sweet Chilli Sauce – 1 tsp

Tomato ketchup – 1 tbsp

Vinegar – ½ tsp

Cornflour – ½ tsp

Water – 2 tablespoon

Salt – ¼ teaspoon or to taste

Procedure

Cut fish into small chunks and add ginger garlic paste,pepper powder,turmeric powder,chilli powder,cornflour,all purpose flour and salt to taste.

Add little water to just coat the fish pieces. Gently mix so that the fish do not become mushy.

Heat oil in pan and fry fish until it turns crisp and golden brown.

In the same pan with leftover oil ,add crushed garlic cloves ,green chillies and onion and saute on high flame.

Add diced bell peppers and finely chopped spring onions and toss well.

Now add soy sauce,red chilli sauce,sweet chilli sauce ,tomato ketchup and vinegar and mix well on high flame.

Meanwhile mix cornstarch in little water and add slurry to the vegetable gravy/sauce mixture. The gravy or sauce starts to thicken within a minute or two.

Now add fried fish to the gravy/sauce and mix gently until gravy coats well on each piece of fish.

Finally garnish with finely chopped spring onions and is ready to serve as a snack to kids or with any fried rice .

Hope you like the recipe!If so, please try it out,leave your comment and thought which means a lot to me. Thank you so much for stopping by the site !Happy Cooking ????.

Fish Manchurian

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Notes

Use Seer fish for this recipe. If not available can use other fish varieties ,but make sure to pin bone fish carefully.

Add sauces according to your palate taste.

Make sure to cook the vegetables on high flame to maintain crunchiness and after adding fish to the gravy/sauce toss well and switch off the flame.

Chinese cooking are cooked on high flame to retain the perfect texture of meat or vegetables so try to maintain the heat during second part of cooking (gravy/sauce preparation).

Fish Manchurian

Jayanthy Asokan
Fish Manchurian is a simple ,delicious and easy recipe to prepare with in few minutes. It is an amazing appetizer and perfect to serve as a starter in parties and snack for kids.
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 30 minutes mins
Course Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine Chinese
Servings 4

Equipment

Frying pan or Wok

Ingredients
  

  • ½ kg King Fish 
  • 1 teaspoon Ginger garlic paste
  • 1 tablespoon All purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon Turmeric powder
  • 1 teaspoon Chilli powder  (to taste)
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup oil

For making Gravy

  • 1 Onion  (medium sized)
  • 1 Red Bell pepper 
  • 1 Yellow Bell pepper
  • 1 bunch Spring Onions 
  • 3 Garlic cloves  (crushed)
  • 2 Green chillies
  • 1 teaspoon Chilli flakes
  • 1 tablespoon Soy sauce 
  • 1 teaspoon Chilli sauce 
  • 1 teaspoon Sweet Chilli Sauce
  • 1 tablespoon Tomato ketchup
  • ½ teaspoon Vinegar 
  • ½ teaspoon Cornflour
  • 2 tablespoon Water 
  • ¼ teaspoon Salt (to taste)
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Instructions
 

  • Cut fish into small chunks and add ginger garlic paste, pepper powder, turmeric powder, chilli powder, cornflour, all purpose flour and salt to taste.
  • Add little water to just coat the fish pieces. Gently mix so that the fish do not become mushy.
  • Heat oil in pan and fry fish until it turns crisp and golden brown.
  • In the same pan with leftover oil ,add crushed garlic cloves ,green chillies and onion and saute on high flame.
  • Add diced bell peppers and finely chopped spring onions and toss well.
  • Now add soy sauce, red chilli sauce, sweet chilli sauce ,tomato ketchup and vinegar and mix well on high flame.
  • Meanwhile mix corn starch in little water and add slurry to the vegetable gravy/sauce mixture. The gravy or sauce starts to thicken within a minute or two.
  • Now add fried fish to the gravy/sauce and mix gently until gravy coats well on each piece of fish.
  • Finally garnish with finely chopped spring onions and is ready to serve as a snack to kids or with any fried rice .
  • Fish Munchurian is ready to serve.

Notes

Use Seer fish for this recipe. If not available can use other fish varieties ,but make sure to pin bone fish carefully.
Add sauces according to your palate taste.
Make sure to cook the vegetables on high flame to maintain crunchiness and after adding fish to the gravy/sauce toss well and switch off the flame.
Chinese cooking are cooked on high flame to retain the perfect texture of meat or vegetables so try to maintain the heat during second part of cooking (gravy/sauce preparation).
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  1. Kishore

    April 5, 2021 at 2:34 am

    5 stars
    Yummy….

    Reply
    • JAYANTHY

      April 5, 2021 at 11:04 am

      Thank you Kishore!

      Reply
  2. Jayanthy

    September 26, 2023 at 7:29 am

    5 stars
    Drooling!

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