I know, reading the title confuses right? Veg. Lollipop, have you ever heard of such a recipe. I don't think so, because the name lollipop was given to food items cooked using chicken legs. the leg bone served as a stick and the flesh served as the ball and the whole dish looked so similar to the shape of a lollipop, that it was named Chicken Lollipop. Later other meat products were used to cook similar shaped dishes with names ending with the word lollipop.
Let me share some interesting facts about lollipop in general. If you happen to search for the history of lollipop then you will be amazed to find out that through middle ages people used to have boiled harden sugar with the help of sticks, but no one called it lollipop. Even the modern inventions of lollipop are a mystery, with some claiming that lollipop, a hard sugar candy fixed on a stick was invented by George Smith of New Haven, Connecticut in the year 1908, and was named after a racing horse Lolly Pop.
Till late 1796, this word "Lollipop" was not even recorded in the english dictionary too. It was 1920 when the word was first publicly used and was believed to derive from the term LOLLY which means Tongue and POP which means Slap, however till date many others also believe that the word lollipop has been derived from the Romany language, (Indo - Aryan macro language of Romani community), LOLI PHABA, which means selling of candy apples in the Roma tradition.
Well, now let us see how we can cook a Veg. Lollipop in our home, quick and easy. Let's Begin.....
Ingredients & Steps:
Take a mixing bowl.
- Add 2 medium size potatoes (boiled and peeled)
- Add 20g cabbage (boiled and chopped)
- Add 1/2 onion (fine chopped)
- Add 4 - 5 cloves of garlic (fine chopped)
- Add 1 - 3 tsp green chillies (fine chopped)
- Add 20g carrot (chopped)
- Add 1 tsp ginger (chopped)
- Add 1 tsp coriander leafs (chopped)
- Add 2 tsp maida (all purpose flour)
- Add 20g paneer (shredded cottage cheese)
- Add 1 tsp ajino-moto (powdered MSG)
- Add Salt as per taste
- Add 1 tsp white pepper (powder)
- Add 1 tsp red chilli sauce
Mash the potato little and mix properly.
- Add 2 - 3 tsp corn flour
Mix well and make a dough.
Cut small balls out of the dough.
- Sprinkle little corn flour to coat the dough balls
Give shape of a cutlet or lollipop balls.
Carefully insert wooden sticks (ice cream sticks) in between.
Now, let's heat up a pan, with some oil for frying.
Once oil is hot, change flame to medium.
Deep fry the lollipops.
Once the lollipops starts floating on the oil and turns golden brown.
Take them out and strain excess oil.
Keep it separately, to be used later.
Let us now make the sauce for the lollipops.
Heat up a pan.
- Add 1 tbsp oil
- Add 7 - 9 cloves of garlic (chopped)
- Add 1 inch ginger (chopped)
- Add 1/2 onion (fine chopped)
- Add 2 green chillies (chopped)
Fry until brown.
- Add 3 cup water
- Add 1 tsp ajino-moto (powdered MSG)
- Add salt as per taste
- Add 1 tsp white pepper (powder)
Let it come to a boil.
- Add 2 tbsp tomato sauce
- Add 1 tsp soy sauce (dark)
- Add 2 tsp red chilli sauce
- Add 2 tsp vinegar
- Add 1 tsp orange food color (optional)
- Add 2 tsp corn flour slurry (mixed with water)
Mix Well, and keep stirring for 2 minutes.
(TIP: Corn flour slurry is added to bring thickness to the sauce / gravy).
- Add 1 tbsp spring onions (chopped)
Switch off the gas flame.
Take a serving plate.
Cover the base with little sauce.
Keep the fried lollipops on top of the sauce.
cover each lollipop with some sauce again.
Veg. Lollipop is ready to be served.
Serve it as an appetizer or with chinese fried rice.
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