Gobi 65 Recipe - Restaurant Style Cauliflower 65 Recipe

Gobi 65 recipe - Restaurant style cauliflower 65 is a very popular appetiser across India; and most restaurants serve this Indo-Chinese dish.  I replicate restaurant foods at home so that my kids and hubby get a chance to have healthy homemade food with a restaurant touch minus the MSG, food colours, and a lot of other factors. While travelling to Goa last month, we ate food from road side shops some where very good; but almost all of them lavished on MSG....something which I totally avoid at home.  So, here is a quick and easy gobi 65 with a restaurant touch minus the MSG.

Have you noticed that fried restaurant food are very crispy, its because they double fry it, that is they deep fry it twice. So if they have gobi 65 on their menu what they do is they, make a  batch of the gobi 65 and fry it and keep it aside, and when an order comes in they again they deep fry it and toss it with the rest of the ingredients and that double frying makes it more crispy.

Gobi 65 Video Recipe

Ingredients:
Cauliflower: 350 gms
Kashmiri Chilli powder: 1 tbsp
Maida/Flour: 4 tbsp
Cornflour: 4 tbsp
Rice Flour: 1 tbsp
Pepper Powder: 1 tsp
Chopped coriander and curry leaves: 2 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste: 1 tsp
Garam Masala: 3/4 tsp
Vinegar: 1/2 tbsp
Salt: 3/4 tsp
Water as needed
Oil as needed
Whole Chilies: 2-3
Green Chilies: 4
Curry leaves: 2 sprigs

Method:
Boil some water, add in 1/2 tsp turmeric and salt. Add in the cauliflower florets and let it simmer for 2 mins and then strain and keep aside.

Into a bowl add in the Kashmiri chilli powder, flour, cornflour, rice flour, pepper powder,  ginger-garlic, chopped coriander and curry leaves, garam masala, vinegar, and salt. First mix this with a spoon and then add water little by little and make it into smooth batter. The batter should be of pourable consistency and should neither be too thick or too thin.

Add in the cauliflower pieces and coat with the batter.

Heat oil in a pan and drop in the cauliflower, once the cauliflower is half fried remove it and keep aside.

Now, again drop back the fried cauliflower into the oil and deep fry,  just be for removing add in 2 sprigs of curry leaves, 4 green chilies slit, and 2-3 Kashmiri chilies broken. Fry all this along with the cauliflower and then remove and serve.