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Showing posts with label soya. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Baked Soya Manchurian

Ever Since I saw this  Gita's soya manchurian, I wanted to try my hands on it . But everytime I ended up with deep frying as I always make it at Hari's demand. I dont know when he is going to stop demanding and letting me cook for my choice.
Thanks to the fight we had today that deprived his demanding rights :). So, I happily made this baked version finally .Yes, deep fried is the best but You can bake it if you suddenly feel you are fat and go on dieting spree without comprising this heavenly manchurian.
I find after baking that it was little dry and I felt flour was little raw even after baking.Probably, I should have added little more water to the batter.But whatever after mixing it with the sauce all raw smell is  gone.
I actually started taking step by step pictures but after each step I find only vapours clouding my pictures.So dropped that idea and got one final picture.Sorry I couldnt take many pictures to post the best as these are the only pictures I took and after that I couldnt resist myself from eating these good looking manchurian.
This is the best healthy manchurian I have ever had.



Ingredients :

For the Chilly soya :

  1. Soya Nuggets - 15 nos.
  2. Maida - 1 tsp.
  3. Cornflour - 2 tbsn.
  4. Chilly powder - 2 tsp.
  5. Salt to taste.
For the Sauce :
  1. Oil - 2 tsp.
  2. Garlic - 7 pods
  3. Ginger - 1/2 inch small piece
  4. Onion - 1/2
  5. Capsicum - 1/2
  6. Soya Sauce - 2 tbsn
  7. Tomato sauce - 2 tbsn.
  8. Corn flour - 2 tsp.
  9. Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp.
  10. Salt to taste.

Method :
For the chilly soya :
  1. Soak the soya nuggets in hot water for about 15 mins until it is completely puffed up.Remove it from hot water and run it under cold water and squeeze gently.Put it in strainer and keep it aside.
  2. Make very thick batter with rest of the ingredients using water .
  3. Mix the soya with the batter and bake it in oven at 200 degree Celsius for about 20 mintues .

For the Sauce :
  1. Heat oil in a pan and once you see the smoke , add garlic and ginger , fry it until it turns into brown colour.
  2. Then add onion and capsicum and fry until onion turns slightly brown .
  3. Mix the cornflour water and make a paste and add it to the pan.
  4. Add soya sauce, tomato sauce, chilly powder and about 1 cup of water and bring it to boil.
  5. Finally add the baked soya , spring onions ( i dint because it was out of stock but still it tasted goo , it will taste better with spring onions).