Soya Chilli is an Indo-Chinese dish. For soya chilli recipe, soya chunks are marinated before it is fried, which makes it very flavorful. A thick gravy is made using cornflour slurry, sauce, Kashmiri chilli powder, etc. Kashmiri chilli powder lends a nice color apart from the use of tomato sauce and soya sauce. This delicious soya chunks recipe goes well with chapati, jeera rice, vegetable pulao, etc.
I have previously done chilli soya chunks with eggs.
INGREDIENTS
PRESSURE COOK
Soya chunks – 125 gm
Water
Salt – 1/2 tsp
MARINATION
Kashmiri chilli powder – 1 tsp
Maida – 1 tbsp
Cornflour – 2 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste – ½ tsp
Soya sauce – 1 tsp
Vinegar – 1 tsp (Optional)
Salt – ½ tsp
Oil – 1 tsp
FOR GRAVY
Garlic, chopped – 1 ½ tbsp
Ginger, chopped – 1 tbsp
Green chilli, chopped – 3
Onion, cut into chunks – 2 medium
Capsicum, cut into square pieces – 1
Tomato, chopped – 1 small
Spring onion – ¼ cup
Kashmiri chilli powder – 1 tsp
Tomato sauce – ¼ cup
Soya sauce – 1 tbsp
Water – 1 cup Cornflour – 1 tsp
INSTRUCTION
Immerse soya chunks in water. Add salt.
Pressure cook until 1 whistle. Let the pressure release on its own. Open the pressure cooker and wash soya chunks thoroughly.
Using hands, squeeze out water from soya chunks. Add Kashmiri chilli powder, salt, maida, cornflour, ginger garlic paste, soya sauce, vinegar, 1 tsp oil. Mix well to combine. Set aside for 10 minutes.
Heat oil in a pan. When oil is hot, add soya chunks. Fry for 3 minutes on each side. Fried soya chunks are ready.
In the remaining oil, add garlic and ginger. Saute for 1 minute on high flame. Add green chilli, onion, and capsicum. Saute for 5 minutes. Add tomato and spring onion. Cook till tomato is cooked.
Add 1 tsp Kashmiri chilli powder, tomato sauce and soya sauce. Saute for 2-3 minutes. Add fried soya chunks. Saute for 2-3 minutes.
Mix water and cornflour to make a slurry. Add this to curry. On medium flame, allow it to boil. Taste check for salt and sauce. If required, add now.
Close the lid and cook for 5 minutes on low flame. After 5 minutes, soya chilli is ready.