Manchurian honey potatoes recipe

Embracing Veganuary this year? Then prepare to meet your new favourite meat-free snack: Manchurian potatoes. Bright, vibrant and loaded with zingy flavour, this tantalising dish tastes as good as it looks. What's more, it's simple to make – you'll need just a few key store cupboard ingredients.

The recipe was created by Nisha Katona, the mastermind behind UK Indian restaurant chain Mowgli Street Food. She says: "This is a versatile Indo-Chinese recipe that’s perfect as a snack, a side dish or 'small plate' as part of a larger meal, perhaps if you’ve got friends round for lunch or dinner and want to serve a few different sharing dishes. Crispy potatoes, sticky with honey and spiked with chilli – who could resist?"

Ingredients

For the sauce

Details

  • Cuisine: Indo-Chinese
  • Recipe Type: Side
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Preparation Time: 10 mins
  • Cooking Time: 20 mins
  • Serves: 4

Step-by-step

  1. Bring a saucepan of water to the boil, add the baby potatoes and cook for 5-6 minutes, or until tender to the point of a knife but still holding their shape. Drain in a colander. Place the colander over a bowl, then add the cornflour (cornstarch) and gently toss together.
  2. Meanwhile, heat a large frying pan (skillet) over a medium heat. Add a drizzle of oil, then add the sliced garlic and spring onions (scallions) and cook for 3-4 minutes, or until softened, then remove with a slotted spoon to a plate.
  3. Add another 2tbsp of oil to the same pan. When hot, add the potatoes with the pinch of salt and cook for 5-6 minutes, turning regularly until crisp all over.
  4. Meanwhile, mix together the sauce ingredients in a small bowl.
  5. When the potatoes are crispy, add the cooked garlic and spring onions (scallions) back to the pan along with the sauce, and stir until everything is well coated and sticky.
  6. Serve, sprinkled with the sesame seeds. 

Recipe extracted from Meat Free Mowgli by Nisha Katona (Nourish Books, £25). Photography by Gareth Morgans.

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