Homemade raw soya chaap
Soya Chaap is one of the most loved street food from north india, many consider it as a good vegetarian substitute of meat.
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
- 1 cup all purpose flour/maida (little extra for dusting)
- 1 cup water
- 2 cup Soya Chunks
- 1 cup Soya Bean Flour (keep some extra, if needed)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp oil
- 3-4 tbsp slurry (thick paste of maida & water)
Instructions
- Take a bowl and add all purpose flour and water.
- Whisk them so well for atleast 2-3 minutes. Keep aside.
- Boil soya chunks for 8-10 minutes so that they turn soft and juicy.
- Take them out of boiling water.
- Pour cold water on soya chunks so that they get cool down immediately.
- Squeeze them so well.
- Add soya chunks in a grinder jar and grind to a paste.
- Transfer this paste in the same bowl carrying maida batter.
- Also add soya bean flour, salt and oil.
- Mix everything so well.
- Rest 10-15 minutes.
- Now again knead the dough and if you find it too loose, add bit of soya bean flour spoon by spoon. We added 4-5 tbsp of extra soya flour.
- Take a portion of dough and roll it into a roti on a surface. Dust some soya flour or maida, whenever needed.
- Cut the roti into strips.
- Apply maida slurry on each strip.
- Roll each strip across the ice cream stick, giving it the look of a chaap.
- If you don't have ice cream sticks, you can roll the strips without them as well.
- Make the soya chaaps with the entire dough.
- Put all the chaaps in boiling water.
- Boil for 12-15 minutes or until chaaps comes up on the surface of water.
- Take the chaaps out.
- Let them cool down completely.
- Either make them anytime soon or put them in zip lock bag and put in freezer.
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Notes
If you don't get soya bean flour, just grind soya bean lentils.