Meat lovers find it difficult to choose healthy and delicious vegetarian foods
When the mission is about losing weight, the focus shifts to vegetarian foods. For those who are non-vegetarians finding a vegetarian food with similar taste is difficult and maybe that discourages many to continue with weight loss.
Among all vegetarian foods, soya has a proximity with meat. It is because of the texture and the ability of the porous soya chunks to hold any flavour added to them.
So if you are someone who is looking for healthy recipes for weight loss but do not want to sacrifice the taste of meat, here are 5 amazing soya recipes for you:
Soya rice
Ingredients: Soya chunks, rice, chopped vegetables of choice, ginger garlic paste, salt, turmeric, oil, cumin seeds, cinnamon powder
How to prepare: Heat oil in a pressure cooker. Add cumin seeds, ginger and garlic paste to this. Now add washed rice to this and cook it for sometime. To this add properly washed soya chunks along with the vegetables. Add salt, cinnamon powder and turmeric to this. Cook it for 10 minutes.
Soya kabab
Ingredients: Soya chunks, ginger and garlic paste, coriander powder, curd, salt and black pepper powder and oil to fry or roast.
How to prepare: Boil soya chunks till they are soft. In a bowl, mix everything other than soya chunks. Squeeze out water from soya chunks when they cool down. Now add the soya chunks to the mixture you have prepared in the bowl, let it sit for sometime. Now deep fry them for 4-5 mins.
Soya keema
Ingredients: Soya, onion, ginger garlic paste, tomatoes, salt, coriander powder and turmeric.
Boil soya and drain out the water completely. Grind the soya in a mixer and add ginger garlic paste, and coriander powder to this. In a pan take some oil, pop some cumin seeds and add chopped onion to it. Once the onion is cooked properly add chopped tomatoes and the ground soya to it. Cook until the raw smell of ginger garlic is gone.
Hot and spicy soya
Ingredients: Soya chunks, tomatoes, onion, ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder and black pepper powder.
Boil soya chunks and drain the water. In a pan take some oil and cook the onion. Once it is done add tomatoes and cook until it is soft. Now add all the spices to this. Cook on a low flame so that you don't burn the mixture. Now add boiled soya chunks to this. Take some corn flour and prepare a smooth slurry. Add this to the mixture and cook until it is thick.
Important tips
It is best to cook the soya beforehand so that it does not take more time to cook it along with other ingredients. Soya takes more time to be soft so other spices might get overcooked in the process.
After boiling soya, wait for sometime. Let the soya cool down completely before draining the water out of them. Squeeze soyas gently with your hand in order to take out the water from them.
You can customize these recipes as per the ingredients available with you. Soya makes good fillings. So, next time you can stuff a few chunks of spicy soya in your roti, wrap it with some lettuce leaves and cucumber and have a complete meal.
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