Dry soya chunks curry recipe, Indian soya chunks recipe

Name: Dry soya chunks curry recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Soya chunks (small size); 1 Onion (large in size, finely chopped ); 2 Tomato (finely chopped); 2 Green chillies (slit); 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste; ⅛ tsp Turmeric; 2 tsp Sambar powder; 1 sprig Curry leaves; 2 tbsp Coriander leaves (Optional); Salt; 2 tbsp Oil; 1 inch Cinnamon; 2 Cloves; ½ tsp Fennel seeds

March 16, 2011 by Raks Anand 90 Comments / Jump to Recipe

Dry soya chunks curry recipe - juicy and with lots of flavourful masalas, spices with step by step pictures. Perfect to go with phulkas or any flatbreads, mild pulaos.

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I had soya chunks/nuggets in my hostel canteen, when I was studying in Trichy.

We get mixed vegetable kurma with soya chunks in it. My friends told that it was soya chunks when I was clueless about it.

And I loved it very much when I had it for the first time itself. But I have never thought of asking my mom to cook it for me, don't know why!

Then after coming to Singapore and when I saw these soya chunks in the store, I took a pack of it and wanted to try at home.

That time I was very new to cooking and don't even know the handlings of masalas and how to cook this soya chunks.

I tried a curry from a cook book and it came our terrible! I didn't fry the GG paste well, added too much of coriander powder and didn't follow the pre-preparation of the soya nuggets.

Also the major thing was I chose a very big sized soya nuggets. So the masala dint blend well with the chunks and now you know why I said it tasted terrible.

Now I must really thank the readers who insisted me on posting soya chunks recipes.

Otherwise I would not have mind to try this out again… But the sad thing is my hubby hates this and won't even touch this 🙁.

Yet to try with my kid,but I think he would love this in kurma or as a side dish for roti. Let me see 🤞.

This time I chose tiny nuggets and I adapted the same recipe, but modified to my convenience and taste.

The result was so so yummy and flavourful curry, without any odd smell of the soya chunks.

So the key💡 in soya nuggets recipe is to cook it without the smell of it, with flavourful masalas!

dry soya chunks curry wrap — phulka wrap with dry soya chunks curry

Instructions

1. Pressure cook the soya chunks with 2 cups of water and a teaspoon of salt, just for a whistle.

Mine is small, so just a whistle was enough. If you don’t want to pressure cook, just boil it in water for 5 mins with salt and add it and squeeze the water, do it twice to get rid of the soya smell.

Drain the water and wash it in tap water once. (squeeze it if there is so much of water,I dint squeezed as it was well drained)

2. Heat a pan with oil and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table in order.

Add curry leaves.Add the chopped onion, slit green chillies and fry till transparent.

Then add ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute in low flame.

After that, add the chopped tomatoes and fry till mushy(add required salt). Then add turmeric and sambar powder. Fry for a minute.

In goes soya chunks and mix well. Fry for 4 minutes till the masala blends well with the soya chunks. Serve as accompaniment for rice or with roti.

I had it wrapped in roti, had a hearty meal and the smell is still lingering😋

Am going to try and keep posted few other soya recipes in recent future…

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