Manchow soup is yet another staple item on restaurant menu cards along with sweet corn as tomato soups. Whenever my family and I ate out, my dad always went for sweet corn while my brother chose tomato and my mother always had manchow soup. She is a spicy food lover chained to blandness because dad has almost a visceral hatred to spicy dishes. So mom broke free when we ate out and stoked her tastebuds with all the spice she got.
Manchow soup is also one of the cornerstones in Indo Chinese cuisine for vegetarians. Back in the nineties, when a vegetarian family ate Indo Chinese the items ordered were always – fried rice, Hakka noodles, vegetable manchurian and the manchow soup. So this one is for all my growing up memories in Mumbai which I have been missing terribly.
Serves 3
Recipe adapted from here
WHAT WE NEED
Olive oil 2 tbsp
Garlic cloves 2
Ginger 1″
Green chillies 2
Onion, finely chopped 1
Shredded cabbage 1/4 cup
Grated carrot 1/4 cup
Button mushrooms 3-4
French beans 4-5
Soy sauce 3 tsp
Vegetable stock 3 cups
Cornstarch 2 tbsp
Water 2 tbsp
Vinegar 1 tsp
Salt & Pepper
Spring onion 2 tsp
WHAT TO DO
- Finely chop the garlic, ginger and green chillies
- Heat oil and add these to it
- Once the raw smell of the garlic reduces add the onion and fry
- Finely chop the mushrooms and French beans
- Once the onion is translucent, add the mushroom,a beans, cabbage and carrot and fry for 3-4 minutes
- Add soy sauce and pepper and mix well
- Add vegetable stock and salt and let it simmer on medium flame
- Mix the water and cornstarch to a paste and add it to the mixture
- Once the soups thickens, add the vinegar
- Turn off heat and taste to check if you need more soy sauce or vinegar
- Garnish with finely chopped spring onions and serve hot
- Enjoy!
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I have never tried manchow soup in hotels. This one looks so nice. I have bookmarked it to try..
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The soup looks very well prepared, I am a big fan of these Chinese soups..lovely clicks too.
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I made this too for this BM but added very lil soya sauce n cornstarch for the kids ! Ur version looks yummmm
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That is a yummy soup
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My kids love this soup and has been in my to-do list for quite sometime.
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Am sure this soup will definitely please my sore throat, inviting bowl.
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That one looks pretty good and any Indo- Chinese food lover would like to grab that flavorful bowl of soup.
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One of the popular Indo-Chinese soups.. This can’t go wrong. great share.
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Man chow is my fav also. Its a long time I haven’t had this. You are tempting with this delicious bowl of soup
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Slurp slurp, manchow soup looks so inviting and delicious.
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Our favourite. Donno why I have not tried it at home as yet. Well thanks for the recipe.
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Manchow is one of my favorite Indo-Chinese dish. Looks so good.
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Oh I have never tried this one, even though rest of the items yes..yours surely looks so good..and I think I will have to make it sometime..
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