Soya Fry

Hi Everyone,

This time I am back with a quick and easy evening snack. I was going through the net thinking of what to make for my kids and suddenly chanced upon this soya chunks fry. My kids love soya chunks. I usually make Soya Biryani and they carefully pick out the soya bits to eat. I had a full packet of soya chunks so I thought I would make a snack instead of the usual biryani.

Without further ado, here is the recipe for Soya Fry.

Soya Fry

Ingredients
Soya chunks: 2 cups (Nobody can stop with a few, so make sure you make a large portion) :)
Chicken masala: As required to coat all soya chunks. As an alternate, you can use chilli powder, salt, coriander powder.
Rice flour: 1tbsp

Preparation

1. Boil soya chunks in water for 10 minutes.

2. Drain the water from the soya chunks and run them under cold water. Squeeze out all water from soya.

3. Cut the soya chunks into smaller pieces.
4. Take the soya chunks in a basin and mix sufficient chicken masala to coat all the soya pieces. I used Sakthi Chicken Masala.

5. Let it marinate for 15-20 minutes.
6. If you want crispy soya fry, mix 1tbsp rice flour to the soya chunks. This step is optional.
7. Deep fry in hot oil in batches.

8. When they turn brown and crispy, drain on a tissue paper. Soya fry is ready to serve.

I kept popping soya fry as I was making them. It tastes delicious. So, ensure you make sufficient quantity to fill everyone's tummy :)

Do you have a different recipe for soya fry? Do let me know in the comments.

Chilli Idli

Hello Everybody,

Here goes my first recipe post on this blog.

I was thinking of a quick snack for kids. Now that they have their summer vacations, they get bored easily. And, when they get bored, they get hungry :)

I had made 12 idlis for breakfast one day, but then my kids wanted pooris. So, I made pooris for kids and lots of idlis were left over after hubby and I finished our breakfast. I thought I would keep those idlis for dinner, but then evening snacks beckoned the idlis :)

I wanted to make Idli Upma, but then thought of doing something different. So, after browsing through several recipes for Chilli Idli, I came up with my recipe.So, here goes the recipe for Chilli Idli.

Chilli Idli

Ingredients
Idlis: 5-6
Onions: 1-2 chopped finely
Tomatoes: 1 cut into small pieces
Garlic: 5-6 cloves chopped finely
Curry leaves: 5-6 leaves
Oil: 1tbsp
Mustard: 1tsp
Turmeric powder: 1/2 tsp
Soya sauce: 1/2 tsp
Chilli sauce: 1 tsp
Tomato sauce: 4 tsp
Salt: To taste

Preparation

1. Chop onions, tomatoes, and garlic.
 








 






2. Cut idlis into small bite sized pieces.

3. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds.
    After the mustard seeds stat spluttering, add curry leaves, onions, garlic, and turmeric powder.

4. After the onions turn translucent, add tomatoes.
   Also, add the tomato sauce, chilli sauce, soya sauce, and salt.

5. Cook well till tomatoes turn mushy. Do not add any water, else the idlis will turn mushy. Check for salt.

6. Add the idli pieces and toss them around so that all pieces are coated with the masala and sauces.

7. Just cook for 4-5 minutes and your Chilli Idli is ready. Transfer to serving bowl and serve.

Tips:

• Usually, chilli idli recipes call for idlis to be deep-fried in oil. But I wanted to keep this healthy for kids, so I did not deep fry the idlis. Kids also liked it this way. If you want, you can deep fry the idlis in oil before making this dish.
• Idlis already have salt in them, so add salt accordingly to the onion tomato mix.

Hope you enjoyed the recipe. Try it out and let me know. If you have a different version, do let me know.

See you all with another post soon, hopefully :)