Veg Schezwan Fritters – Tea Time Snack / Tiffin Recipe / Easy Chinese Snack

I usually am not a big fan of Fritters, but these schezwan fritters are my favorite. My muma used to make it for me for my tiffin, that too in the early morning. By this you would get an idea that these fritters are easy to make and less time consuming. The main is the chopping part that takes some time, rest is just mixing and frying.

Veg Schezwan Fritters

For these schezwan fritters you would need some chopped veggies like cabbage, capsicum, carrots. You can even use French beans, but boiled. For binding you would require a mix of cornflour and plain flour. So that the veggies would be intact and the fritters retain the desired shape.

To make it more crisp coat these fritters with cornflour and plain flour mixture.

I most important point I would like to discuss here is the water content of the vegetables. The water would not let the veggies unite together and also would restrict the fritters from keeping hold of their shape.

For this we would add salt to the vegetables and keep it aside for about 15 minutes. After 15 minutes squeeze out all the water. And then proceed with the recipe.

For better understanding I have uploaded the video

Ingredients: (6 to 8 Fritters)

1 ½  cup Cabbage (finely shredded)

1 Onion (finely chopped)

1 small Capsicum (finely chopped)

1 Carrot (grated)

½ tsp White Pepper powder

1 tsp Red Chilli Flakes

1 tbsp Schezwan Sauce

2 tbsp Plain Flour (maida)

5 tbsp Cornflour

Oil for frying

Salt to taste

Method:

In a bowl take cabbage, carrot, capsicum, onion, add salt and mix well. Let it rest for about 15 minutes.

mix vegetables and add salt

After 15 minutes squeeze out the excess water.

squeeze out the excess water

Then add white pepper powder, red chilli flakes, schezwan sauce, plain flour, cornflour. 


Combine them well.

add white pepper, red chilli flakes, schezwan sauce, plain flour, cornflour

combine well

Take small portions and give them oval shape.

give oval shape

Make a mixture of 1 tbsp cornflour, 1 tbsp plain flour with water. 

cornflour+plain flour+water

Dip the schezwan oval balls in this mixture.

dip balls

Slide them into hot oil.

slide in hot oil

Deep fry them on medium to high flame till golden and crisp.

deep fry

Drain on an absorbent paper.

drain on absorbent paper

Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

Veg Schezwan Fritters 

Tips:

After adding salt check it and adjust, do not add it later after squeezing out the water as it would increase the moisture.

The recipe is medium spicy you can add in more schezwan sauce and chilli flakes to make it more spicy 



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