manchow soup recipe with step by step photos. manchow soup is a spicy and hot soup made from mixed vegetables. apart from hot and sour soup, manchow soup and tom yum soup are some of the soups we order from chinese takeaways and in restaurants.
as always for proteins, i have added mushrooms. you can add tofu or sprouts. i do not get good quality tofu here and hence they don’t get added to soups or any stir fries.
in the indian chinese restaurants, the manchow soup is served with fried noodles. just to give a restaurant like flavor, i also added fried noodles. i was making both the soup and veg chowmein together and hence kept some noodles for frying. you can completely skip the fried noodles part and serve the soup as it is.
in restaurants, what they serve is a thick soup, which we do not prefer. so i add less corn starch in the soup. thickness can be easily adjusted by adding more or less of corn starch.
serve manchow soup as a starter with any indo chinese main course like hakka noodles or veg noodles or veg fried rice or burnt garlic fried rice or singapore fried rice.
how to make manchow soup
preparing veggies
1. first chop all the veggies and keep aside.
2. heat oil in a wok or pan and add the chopped fresh red chilies, garlic and ginger. sauté for a minute. you can even add green chilies instead of fresh red chilies.
3. then add chopped onions. sauté again for a minute.
4. now add finely chopped french beans and chopped mushrooms. stir fry on a medium to high flame till the mushrooms get lightly browned from the edges.
5. then add grated carrots, shredded cabbage, finely chopped capsicum (green bell pepper) & celery.
6. stir fry on a medium to high flame for 3 to 4 minutes. add black pepper powder and soy sauce. stir.
7. add water or veg stock to the stir-fried veggies.
8. season with salt. add less salt initially as soy sauce already has salt in it.
9. allow the soup to come to a simmer on medium flame.
making manchow soup
10. in the meantime, if you have cooked noodles, then add them to medium hot oil for frying. this is an optional step.
11. fry the noodles till they are crisp. drain the fried noodles on kitchen paper towels.
12. meanwhile. make a smooth paste of the corn starch with water.
13. add the corn starch paste to the soup.
14. stir very well and let the manchow soup thicken.
15. lastly add rice vinegar or regular vinegar. switch off the flame. stir and check the taste of veg manchow soup. add more seasonings like salt, black pepper or soy sauce or vinegar if required.
16. stir and serve manchow soup hot topped with fried noodles or just plain garnished with coriander leaves (cilantro leaves).
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Manchow Soup
INGREDIENTS
for manchow soup
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil or any other oil
- 1 to 2 fresh red chilies or green chilies - finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
- ¼ cup finely chopped onions or spring onion whites
- ¼ to ⅓ cup sliced or chopped mushrooms
- ¼ cup finely chopped french beans
- ¼ cup shredded cabbage
- ¼ cup grated carrots
- ¼ cup finely chopped capsicum (green bell pepper)
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped celery (optional)
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper powder or white pepper powder, add as required
- 2 teaspoon soy sauce or add as required
- 3 cups water or veg stock
- 6 teaspoon cornstarch dissolved in 2 tablespoon water (for a slight thicker consistency in the soup - dissolve 7 to 8 teaspoon corn starch in 3 tablespoon water)
- ½ teaspoon rice vinegar or regular vinegar
- 2 teaspoon finely chopped coriander leaves (cilantro leaves) for garnish - optional
- salt as required
for the fried noodles - optional
- ⅓ cup cooked noodles
- oil for frying as required
INSTRUCTIONS
stir frying veggies
- first chop all the veggies and keep aside.
- heat oil in a wok or pan and add the chopped fresh red chilies, garlic and ginger.
- saute for a minute and then add chopped onions. saute again for a minute.
- now add finely chopped french beans and chopped mushrooms.
- stir fry on a medium to high flame till the mushrooms get lightly browned from the edges.
- then add grated carrots, shredded cabbage, finely chopped capsicum/bell pepper & celery.
- stir fry on a medium to high flame for 3 to 4 minutes.
making manchow soup
- in the meantime, if you have cooked noodles, then add them to oil for frying. this is an optional step.
- fry the noodles till they are crisp. drain the fried noodles on kitchen paper towels.
- once the veggies are stir fried for 3 to 4 minutes, then add soy sauce and black pepper. stir.
- now add water or veg stock.
- season with salt. allow the soup to come to a simmer on a medium flame. keep a check on the amount of salt as soy sauce already has a lot of salt.
- meanwhile. make a smooth paste of the corn starch with water.
- add the corn starch paste to the soup. stir very well and let the manchow soup thicken.
- lastly add rice vinegar or regular vinegar. switch off the flame. stir and check the taste of veg manchow soup. add more seasonings like salt, black pepper or soy sauce or vinegar if required.
- stir and serve manchow soup hot topped with fried noodles.
- you can also mix chopped cilantro leaves towards the end or serve manchow soup garnished with cilantro leaves.
I tried tomato and spinach soup it was very nice I have to try other soups
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Tried this today and must say it is yumm. Your recipes do not let me down ever 😊 Thank you!
P.S- you mention adding
Capsicum in the method but it’s not there in the ingredients so just have a look.
thanks nupur for the review and feedback both. welcome 😊. i will update the capsicum info in the ingredient list. thanks for letting me know.
Excellent for winter evenings. It was delicious. Thank you very much. Keep up the good work.
welcome sabina. thanks for your positive words.
Wow! This tasted really good. Again my family loved it. Infact the “Wow” comes from my daughter who insisted I mention it in my comment to you.
Thanks for this awesome feedback. Do thank your daughter on my behalf.
Wow I made this today after two days of Christmas roast I needed something real spicy and flavourful food….all my family enjoyed very much.
Brilliant recipes easy but tasty I forgot to put vinegar but I guess it did not effect much.
thanks a lot mintoo. vinegar just give slight sour notes in the soup. its fine if vinegar is given a skip.
this looks absolutely incredible and I can’t wait tot ry it. I wish the recipe were not on a black background, so that it could be printed!
thanks mary. the recipe card plugin that we are using is giving us this black background error for more than a month now. we have informed the plugin developers and they delayed this matter. but now are looking into this issue. initially the background was white. sorry for the inconvenience. but there is nothing that we can do from our end. we tried some tricks, but still having the issue.
Super keep up the good work
thanks caesar
It was delicious. Me n my husband both are soup lovers. I tried it and it was tastier than a restaurant onr
thanks for this positive feedback sammy.
Thanks for your wonderful recipes specially your veg pizza recipe. We all love it. Now we don’t order pizza from outside. Thank you so much for it. Could you please specify how to make vegetable stock? Thanks in advance
thanks a lot ritu. vegetable stock is very easy to make. just add chopped veggies in water. you can use a proportion of 1:1 or 1:2 for the chopped veggies and water. depends on how concentrated you want the stock to me. seasonings like black pepper or even whole spices like cumin or whole garam masala can be added. depends in which dish you will be using the stock.
Gud and easy recepies to follow
thankyou sangeeta 🙂
Ur all recipes are best ive personally tried many of them keep posting more delicious dishes wud love to see ur dal dhokli recipe can u post it
thankyou so much komal have taken your request on our file.
I am 20, spinster, living away from my place, alone. But it is because of you, that I cook better food than my mother..! I tried this soup and it turned out to be better than what I have in the hotels! Thanks a tonne. ?
thanks nupur. thats sweet of you 🙂 all the best for your future.
I made this soup last night and it came out amazing! I’ve tried many of your recipes and they always taste yummy. Thank you for your wonderful blog. It makes cooking very easy and enjoyable.
welcome always rachna 🙂 thankyou for your encouraging words.
the soup came out wonderful thanks however I could not get the red colour you got on the steps after adding the cornflour.
thanks for the feedback. the red color is due the red cabbage. if you use regular cabbage, you won’t get this color.
Hi, I have a lot of recipes from your site and they have turned out to be really good. The way you show each process with pics is really great. Thanks a lot. Will surely try your veg manchow soup.
Really very thanks to u for giving me such delicious recipes.. thank u so much.. my all family loves ur recipes
welcome rashmi
Hi Dassana, is corn starch and corn flour the same?
what is called as corn flour in india is actually corn starch. its white colored flour. the yellow colored flour is makki ka atta and is known as maize flour in india.
Hi. excellent recipe but can you tell me how to make cooked noodles?
THANK YOU
welcome samuel. i have shown steps to cook noodles in this post – https://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/schezwan-noodles-recipe/
Hi i tried many recipes from ur website n all turned out extremely tasty. Thank you so much. Recently i tried kadai mushroom n all loved it. Credit goes to u dassana. Keep posting new recipes. Thanks alot once again. Now will love to try this manchow soup. Only problem is i dnt have mushrooms right now at home. Is mushroom compulsory needed for this.
welcome girija. thanks for sharing positive feedback on recipes. mushroom gives a good taste as well as texture to the soup. but you can skip them.
Can I use Corn flour instead of Corn Starch ?
akshay, in india what we call corn flour is corn starch only. its a white color flour. so you can use.
hey i love all your recipes on this site…and tried many of them …..i am a amatuer and yet i was able to cook very good food by reading your recipes.so thanks a lot for that….and one more thing i will like to mention is that i also love non veg food….so if you add non veg food or create a another website for non veg food,then it will be very much helpful for us because i found the interface of this website very user friendly in comparison with other recipe websites…..so please help me out with non veg recipes….and i am not the only one who is giving this request but many other people are also eager to get the non veg recipes from us……so pls pls pls help us……god bless you….
thanks sairaj for this positive feedback on recipes. we only cook vegetarian food at home. you know all the posted recipes are tried and tested first at home. so we can not share non-veg recipes. but we will try out best that vegetarian recipes posted in the website are delicious and easy to cook.
Instead of red cabbage can i use the regular cabbage????
meena, yes you can use.
What can be used as a substitute for cornstarch paste?
anna, try arrow root flour.
I found this recepi of Manchow soup very simple with excellent result
thanks bina
Excellent recipe 🙂
thanks kumar
Excellent recipe …made it last night for dinner. Thanku so much for this and more..
welcome rashmi
Wow!!.. Interesting. . Never tasted this. Will try definitely. Thanks a lot..:-).
welcome sachu