Soya Bean Aloo aur Batura

Some time ago one of my friends' gave me some dried Soya beans. Today I made the Soya beans along with some potatoes and some Batura- deep fried Indian bread.

I always used to made Aloo Batura which has the potatoes mixed into the dough. It tastes great. But this time around when I was searching for curries for Batura a different recipe came up and I made it. And the Baturas just fluffed up so nicely. I am super happy.

And instead of the usual Chick peas to go with it, I made the healthy and delicious Soya Beans with Potato curry. So here you go. Enjoy

Batura (Deep fried whole wheat bread)

Batura

Ingredients:
The night before:

1. 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
2. 3/4 cup plain yogurt
3. 2 teaspoon sugar
4. 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
5. 1/8 cup water

In the morning:

1. 21/2 cups whole wheat flour
2. 1/2 tablespoon oil
3. 1 teaspoon salt
4. water as needed

The night before you want to make the baturas, mix all the ingredients in "the night before" and set aside on the counter in a warm spot. In the morning you can see some bubbles in the batter. It is fermented and ready.

Mix the whole wheat with salt and oil and the batter. Add little oil at a time and make dough until it is tacky. Set it aside for atleast 2 hrs. 

Divide it into 16 parts and roll it on a clean surface about 3-4 inch diameter baturas. Heat oil in a deep frying pan. Add the batura into the oil and with a spoon keep putting oil onto the top of the batura and it will fluff up nicely. Serve hot

Frying batura

Soya Beenj Aloo (Soya Beans with potato curry)

Soya beans with potato curry

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup dried soya beans soaked in water for atleast 12 hours
2. 1 large tomato chopped
3. 1 medium small tomato chopped
4. 1/2 teaspoon each of ginger-garlic paste, cumin mustard seeds, turmeric, chilly powder, asafoetida
5. few curry leaves, 2 dried red chillies
6. 1 teaspoon salt
7. 1 medium small potatoes boiled, peeled and cubed small
8. 1 tablespoon oil

Boil the soya beans and chopped tomatoes with 2 cups water in a cooker for about 10 whistles or about 45 minutes in a pot.

In a pan heat the oil and fry the cumin, mustard seeds till they splutter. Add curry leaves and dried red chillies and fry for a minute. Add asafoetida and mix. Add onions and fry till they start to change color. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for 30 seconds. Add potatoes and all the powder ingredients and mix well. Add boiled soya beans along with water to the pan and stir to combine. Simmer for 10 minutes stirring occasionally. garnish with cilantro and serve