Soy is rich in protein. You can easily prepare delicious food by soy. Now you can see some of the recipes made from soy.
First of all you can learn how to make soy milk from soy beans.
- Soy milk: It is very healthy, full of nutrients and a great beverage.
Ingredients: 125 gram whole soya beans
Directions: First clean the soya beans and soak them in water for 10-16 hours. Now drain the beans. Now put the soaked soya beans into a blender and add water to it. Now grind it properly. Drain the beans, add 1 liter water and mix it in a blender for 3 minutes. Separate the soy milk from the solids by squeezing through a cheese cloth. Boil soy milk for 10 minutes. Now your milk is ready to drink.
- Bread Pattice: They are different to taste and a complete package of vegetables and soya.
Ingredients: 2 tablespoon soya granules
½ tablespoon oil
2 tablespoons finely chopped spring onions
3 tablespoons finely chopped carrots
3 tablespoons finely chopped capsicum
3 tablespoons grated cabbage
2 tablespoons boiled noodles
½ tablespoon chili -garlic sauce
½ tablespoon tomato sauce
½ tablespoon soy sauce
Salt to taste
12 fresh whole wheat bread slices
Melted butter
Directions: First soak the soya granules in warm waters for 10 minutes. Drain it, squeeze the water and keep it. Heat the oil in a non-stick pan, add the spring onion and sauté for 30 seconds. Now add carrots, cabbage and capsicum and sauté again for 2 minutes. Add soya granules and noodles and mix them well. Add chili- garlic sauce and tomato ketchup and sauté for few seconds. Now remove the pan from flame, add soya sauce and salt and mix well. Stuffing is ready, now keep it aside.
Place a bread slice on a flat surface and remove the edges. Roll the bread slice thinly using a rolling pin. Place a tablespoon of the stuffing on one end of the bread and roll it tightly to seal the filling. Repeat the procedure to make other rolls. Brush melted butter on bread pattice and bake in a pre-heated oven at 200 degree centigrade for 10 to 12 minutes. Cut each roll into 2 pieces and serve them.
- Soya Fry:
Ingredients: 2 cups of Soya chunks
1 sliced onion
3 or 4 slit lengthwise green chillies
1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
Salt as needed
3- 4 tablespoons oil
½ tablespoon mustard seeds
2 springs curry leaves
1 tablespoon red chilly powder
2 tablespoon coriander powder
¼ tablespoon cumin seeds
½ tablespoon fennel powder
½ tablespoon garam masala
¼ tablespoon turmeric powder
¼ tablespoon pepper powder
Directions: Wash and soak the soya chunks in hot water for 15 minutes. Squeeze the chunks and keep it aside. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a pan, fume mustard seeds and curry leaves in it. Add onion and green chillies and sauté it until the onion become pink. Add the ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute. Add the soya chunks with ¼ cup of water and salt according to taste. Cover and cook for about 7-8 minutes. Add all the spices now. Add another 2-3 tablespoons of oil and increase the heat. Fry till all the pieces get fried well. Now serve it hot with chapattis, rice or biriyani.
- Soya Curry:
Ingredients: Soya chunks
1 small sliced potato
1 chopped onion
1 chopped tomato
1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
¼ tablespoon turmeric powder
1 tablespoon meat masala powder
1 tablespoon garam masala
Salt as needed
1 tablespoon oil
Directions: Put some oil in a pan. When it get heated up fume garam masala. Fry the onion and add ginger garlic paste. When the mixture turns pink add tomatoes. After they get little cooked, add potatoes. Add the meat masala powder and turmeric powder and stir it properly and let it be cooked on low flame. In the meantime soak the soya chunks and boil them for few minutes. Squeeze the chunks and put them in the mixture and mix them well. Add required water and salt. Let it boil and simmer the gas for few minutes before switching it off. It can also be served with chapattis or rice.
- Pineapple smoothie:
Ingredients: 1 pkg. soft silken tofu
1 medium banana
1 can unsweeten orange-pineapple juice
1 can unsweetened crush pineapple
Directions: Mix all ingredients in a blender until it become smooth. Serve with ice or refrigerate it.