Vegetable Manchow Soup | Restaurant Style Manchow Soup Recipe is one of the most popular Indo Chinese soups. It tastes delicious and the crunchy noodles on the top are the best bit!!
Vegetable Manchow Soup | Restaurant Style Manchow Soup Recipe can be made with boiled and shredded chicken or steamed prawns too but I’ve always preferred this vegetarian version. It’s packed with crunchy veggies of my choice!! It has been my favorite forever, I always end up ordering it when we are visiting our favorite Chinese place! 🙂
This soup has to be my go to comfort food when I’m suffering from stuffy nose or a bad throat infection! All that ginger and garlic almost works like a magic potion 😉 And the veggies sure fill me up when I’m not in the mood to eat anything heavier. I also rely heavily on my Mexican Vegetable Soup to cure the sniffles 🙂 It’s a completely different flavor profile and again full of veggies, it’s amazing what some basic ingredients can do!
Vegetable Manchow Soup | Restaurant Style Manchow Soup Recipe making this soup at home is so easy and I’m always up for a bit of chopping to prep the veggies. I don’t use any chopper, it’s just sitting idle in the pantry, lol! I usually add carrots, French beans, mushrooms, cabbage, capsicum, spring onions, broccoli and anything else that is sitting in the refrigerator! That’s the beauty of this recipe. I love the flavor of ginger and garlic in this soup and I add them generously. Needless to say that the fried noodles added on top of the soup while serving it is absolutely genius! The crunch from the noodles along with the half cooked veggies is just so appetizing!
Let’s make some piping hot soup 🙂
Wash, dry and chop all the veggies very finely. Set these aside.
Take water in a bowl and add corn starch, mix these to make smooth slurry. Set it aside too
Chop green chilies, fresh ginger and garlic finely. Set these aside too.
Heat oil in a wok, in the meanwhile, dust the boiled noodles with some APF/ corn flour or rice flour, mix well and fry the boiled noodles until crispy and golden.
Drain the fried noodles on some absorbent kitchen paper. Set them aside.
In the same hot, add chopped green chilies, garlic and ginger. Sauté them for 2-3 minutes.
Next, add the spring onion whites and sauté for another 2 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.
Next, add all the chopped veggies except the greens from the spring onions. Toss all the veggies on high flame for 3-4 minutes stirring continuously.
Add soy sauce, vinegar and green chilly sauce. mix well
Add the corn starch slurry and plain water. Stir well to ensure there are no lumps. Add a pinch of sugar (optional).
Let the soup come to a boil, then simmer it for 3-4 minutes on medium flame.
Serve the soup piping hot, topped with fried noodles and chopped spring onion greens.
This soup is best consumed fresh.
Restaurant Style Vegetable Manchow soup is spicy, crunchy and packed with delicious veggies. This makes for ideal meal in itself. The crispy noodles on the top are my favorite!
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp. finely chopped cabbage
- 2 tbsp. finely chopped carrots
- 2 tbsp. finely chopped capsicum
- 2 tbsp. finely chopped mushrooms
- 2 tbsp. finely chopped french beans
- 2 tbsp. finely chopped broccoli
- 2 tbsp. each finely chopped spring onion, keep the greens seperately
- 1 tsp. each finely chopped ginger, garlic and green chilli
- salt and black pepper to taste
- 2 cups plain water
- 2 tbsp. corn starch + 1/2 cup water (to make the slurry)
- 1 tsp. dark soy sauce
- 1 tsp. vinegar
- 1 tsp. green chilly sauce
- a pinch of sugar (option)
- 1 cup boiled noodles
- 4-5 tbsp. oil
Instructions
- Wash, dry and chop all the veggies very finely. Set these aside.
- Take water in a bowl and add corn starch, mix these to make smooth slurry. Set it aside too
- Chop green chilies, fresh ginger and garlic finely. Set these aside too.
- Heat oil in a wok, add boiled noodles, fry them until crispy and golden.
- Drain the fried noodles on some absorbent kitchen paper. Set them aside.
- In the same hot, add chopped green chilies, garlic and ginger. Sauté them for 2-3 minutes.
- Next, add the spring onion whites and sauté for another 2 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.
- Next, add all the chopped veggies except the greens from the spring onions. Toss all the veggies on high flame for 3-4 minutes stirring continuously.
- Add soy sauce, vinegar and green chilly sauce. mix well
- Add the corn starch slurry and plain water. Stir well to ensure there are no lumps. Add a pinch of sugar (optional).
- Let the soup come to a boil, then simmer it for 3-4 minutes on medium flame.
- Serve the soup piping hot, topped with fried noodles and chopped spring onion greens.
- This soup is best consumed fresh.
Notes
You can add boiled and shredded chicken in place of veggies or even some seafood. Add more spices if you like, but this recipe does make a pretty hot and spicy Manchow soup.

Love,
Shreya 🙂