Soya Chunks Manchurian – Soya Chunks Recipes

• Mini Soya chunks – 1 cup (Soya Nano, I used double horse brand)
• Water – 3 cups ( to boil soya chunks)
• Maida/All purpose flour – 3 tbsp
• Corn flour – 1/4 cup
• Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
• Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tsp
• Cooking oil – to deep fry
• Salt – as needed

For manchurian sauce

• Cooking oil – 1 tbsp
• Garlic cloves – 5 nos ( finely chopped)
• Big onion – 1 no ( finely chopped)
• Capsicum – 1/4 no ( finely chopped)
• Spring onion – 2 sprig ( finely chopped)
• Soya sauce – 1/2 tsp
• Tomato sauce – 1.5 tbsp
• Red chilli sauce or red chilli powder – 1 tsp
• Sugar – a pinch
• Salt – as needed

• Boil 3 cups of water and add the soya chunks in hot water.Let it soak for 10 minutes. It becomes soft and doubles in size. Squeeze the chunks and drain the excess water( If using big sized soya chunks, chop them into small pieces after squeezing the water).Take them in a bowl.To this, add maida, corn flour or rice flour ( OR use 50/50), red chilli powder, g&g paste and required salt. DO NOT ADD WATER. Just mix everything well. The moisture content of soya chunks would be enough to coat the flour. Add more flour if the chunks are not coated properly.
  
• Make sure the flour is well coated over soya chunks. Let it rest for 10 –15 minutes.
• In the mean time, finely chop the garlic, big onion, spring onion and capsicum. Set aside.
• Prepare sauce mix first. For this, take red chilli sauce or chilli powder, soya sauce, tomato sauce, sugar and salt.Mix well.
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• Heat oil to deep fry.Drop one soya to check the heat of oil. If it rises to the top immediately, oil temperature is just right. Reduce the flame to medium and drop a batch of soya chunks in a sprinkled manner in oil. Keep tossing them for uniform cooking. Fry them until the bubbles cease and soya chunks turn golden brown with a crispy texture. Remove in a tissue paper. Repeat the same and deep fry all the chunks. If you wish, you can serve this crispy, fried chunks as soya 65 with tomato sauce. Kids would love it. If you want to make manchurian, proceed to the next step.
  
  
• Heat oil in a kadai and when it gets heated, add the finely chopped garlic, big onion, spring onion and capsicum.Saute until onion turns transparent. Add the sauce mix. Add little water if needed.Mix well and check for taste. Add more tomato sauce or red chilli powder as per your taste. Add the fried soya chunks.Toss well and remove in a plate. Garnish with finely chopped spring onion or coriander leaves. Serve hot immediately !
  
  

Enjoy !

• Adjust the quantity of chilli powder as per your taste.
• You can replace corn flour with rice flour or use 50/50 corn flour and rice flour.
• Serve hot to enjoy its best taste because  soya chunks becomes chewy and soft after it cools down.