Chilli Gobi Recipe – Street Style

Time and servings

Prep time	10 min
Cook time	20 min
Total time	30 min
Serves	3 servings

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About

An easy and interesting tasty street food recipe prepared with cauliflower kernels fritters tossed and stir-fried with chilli sauce. Gobi Chilli most commonly known as Chilli Gobi is typically served as a starter or side dish with other Indo-Chinese recipes like fried rice and noodles. The interesting part of this recipe is the crispiness due to the deep frying, yet the moistness due to additional sauteing and tossing with chilli sauce. There are many different ways to make this simple Chilly Gobi Recipe, but the most common way is the street style. In most Indian cities, the gobi fritter is made super crispy by adding corn flour and plain flour. However, in many places, it is also made with besan flour which may turn soft and more moist. In addition, it can also be made with additional vegetables or paneer cubes to make it more interesting, and a range of hero ingredients in offered.

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Ingredients

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for frying gobi:

• ½ cup maida / plain flour / refined flour
• ¼ cup corn flour
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
• ½ tsp chilli powder / lal mirch powder
• salt to taste
• water as required (to prepare batter)
• 1 cup gobi / cauliflower (boiled boiled)
• oil for deep frying

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other ingredients:

• 2 tsp oil
• 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
• 2 spring onion (finely chopped)
• 1 inch ginger (finely chopped)
• 1 green chilli (slit)
• ¼ red capsicum (cubed)
• ¼ green capsicum (cubed)
• 2 tbsp tomato sauce
• ½ onion (petals)
• 1 tbsp chilli sauce
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• salt to taste
• ¼ tsp sugar
• 1 tsp corn flour
• 2 tbsp water

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Instructions

1. firstly, in prepare smooth flowing consistency batter.
2. add in boiled gobi florets.
3. dip the florets into batter and deep fry or shallow fry in hot oil.
4. stir occasionally and fry on medium flame.
5. drain off over kitchen towel and keep aside.
6. now in a kadai heat oil.
7. saute in garlic, ginger, chilli and spring onion.
8. also add in capsicum and onion. saute till they shrink slightly.
9. now add in tomato sauce, chilli sauce, soy sauce, salt to taste and sugar. mix well.
10. now add corn flour paste and give a quick stir.
11. stir till the corn flour paste turn translucent.
12. add fried gobi and spring onions green. stir gently.
13. finally, serve chilli gobi hot as a starter or as a dish for roti, noodles or fried rice.

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Step-by-step

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Video

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Notes

• alternatively, shallow fry or bake the gobi to make it more healthy.
• furthermore, add black pepper to make it more spicy and tasty.
• additionally, to prepare chilli paneer or chilli potato, substitute in place of gobi.
• finally, add more chillies if you prefer spicy chilli gobi. while, adding extra chillies may rise spice level, but you may have to be careful while feeding to kids.