Soya keema curry recipe – one of the delicious soya keema recipe. Soya meat also called as Vegetable textured protein is available in various forms like granules, chunks and even flour too.
It is a good source of protein for the vegetarians and is widely used in Indian cuisine for making soya chunks biryani, soya chunks stir fry, meal maker fried rice and soya chunks gravy curry too.
Today’s soya keema curry recipe can be very well be prepared with either soya chunks or with soya granules or minced soya chunks / granules (ground). This is one of the tastiest soya keema I have ever tasted. It tastes best when prepared with ground soya meat and good with soya chunks too.
When you have a crowd for a meal, this could be one of the easiest and good tasting curry that one could prepare. It can be served with rice, roti, bread or paratha. It also goes well in lunch box. It can be refrigerated and frozen as well. If refrigerated use up within 2 days.
For more Soya chunks recipes
Soya keema biryani
Soya chunks cutlet
Soya chunks manchurian
Soya seekh kabab
Soya kurma
Soya keema curry recipe below
Soya keema curry recipe
For best results follow the step-by-step photos above the recipe card
Ingredients (US cup = 240ml )
- ½ cup cauliflower , minced
- ½ cup soya mince/ keema/ granules (or soya chunks)
- ½ cup tomatoes , chopped
- ⅛ cup bell peppers (green, yellow, red, any)
- ⅛ cup green peas , fresh or frozen
- ¼ to ½ cup onions , finely chopped
- 1 green chili , chopped finely
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste or 1/2 tbsp. ginger
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- 1 tsp meat masala or garam masala
- ¼ tsp amchur powder (optional)
- ⅛ tsp turmeric
- ½ tsp kasuri methi
- 2 tbsp Cashew paste or melon seeds paste or 1/4 cup cream
Whole spices
- 1 bay leaf or 1 sprig curry leaves
- ¼ tsp Jeera or shahi jeera
- 3 to 4 green cardamoms
- 4 cloves or crushed black pepper corn
- 1 inch cinnamon stick
Instructions
- If you do not have soya keema, here is how to make it from soya chunks. Soak soya chunks in hot water till they soften, discard the water and rinse in cold water, squeeze off the excess water and set aside. Pulse the chunks in a grinder to coarse keema or mince. Set aside.
- To use the store bought soya keema bring 3 cups of water to a boil. Add the mince and turn off the stove. Let soak well soft. Then discard the water and squeeze the mince well.
- Rinse it again 2 to 3 times in fresh cold water, squeezing off the absorbed water.
- Heat a heavy bottom pan with oil, add curry leaves or bay leaf, cumin, cardamoms, cloves and cinnamon stick. Sauté for a minute.
- Add onions, sprinkle salt and fry till golden.
- Next add ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes away
- Add tomatoes, salt and turmeric. fry till tomatoes turn fully mushy
- Next add red chili powder, fry for a min
- Add soya keema , green peas, cauliflower and capsicum and fry for 3 to 4 mins
- Pour little water to bring to a consistency.
- When it comes to a boil, add kasuri methi, amchur and garam masala.
- Add the nut paste or melon seeds paste. Cook till it comes to a desired consistency.
- Off the heat and serve soya keema with rice or paratha
Alternative quantities provided in the recipe card are for 1x only, original recipe.
For best results follow my detailed step-by-step photo instructions and tips above the recipe card.
NUTRITION INFO (estimation only)
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Hi Swasthi
Thank you for this recipe, we tried it and it turned out delicious… thank you so much ( I stick to 1/2 and 1/2 soya and cauliflower) 🙂
Hi,
Glad it worked out. Thank you
Hi Swasthi
We plan to make this tomorrow. WOuld it be okay to do 3/4 cup cauliflower and 1/4 cup soya mince instead of 1/2 cup cauliflower and 1/2 cup soya mince. Would this change the taste
Hi,
It should be okay. I haven’t tried those proportions but it should work.
hi! thank you for the recipe. i was wondering, i’m here all the way back in south africa and we don’t really have a store that sells fresh soya mince as i’m from a small town. we do get the dried ones though, so i was wondering if i could use that for this recipe? lol my mom would say that a “boer maak ‘n plan” so this is my plan
Hi Franzel
Yes use the dried mince. That’s what I have used here. I will update the post with more details for easy understanding. Hope you enjoy the meal.
It’s an awesome. Today me and my kids have tried this recipe after watching your video.
Thanks a lot for lovely taste. Also added chopped tomatoes.
I am a beginner when it comes to using soya mince, so was delighted when this curry turned out so tasty, that the whole family enjoyed BUT the amounts in this recipe were very small so I doubled the amount of soya and also increased the amount of all the veggies, which fed us a family of 4 and there was 1 portion left over. That’s not a complaint, it just wouldn’t have fed us all if I’d have stuck to the recipe. Look forward to trying more of your recipes.
Tried this recipe today. Used meat masala instead of garam masala as a variation. It turned out super tasty. It was a real hit at home.
Glad to know Winnie
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Hi Swasthi..
I totally trust U for all the awesome recipes..
Was wondering can we make this without cauliflower?
Hi Shilpa
Thank you so much! Yes you may want to substitute cauliflower with the same amount of soya otherwise you have to reduce the spices. Hope this helps
Step by step pics are missing
Yes sunny
I will check and update
What is meant by Dry Spices? What does it consist of? It can be replaced with curry leaves, mustard and cumin – is this mustard seeds and cumin seeds?
Hi Ranjiv,
I have updated it clearly now. You can refresh the page and check.
Hi.. at what stage do we blend the chunks to keema.. before putting them in hot water or after finishing that step?
Hi Shweta,
Yes put them in hot water first and let them soften. Then squeeze and rinse them a few times. Repeat squeezing until there is no excess moisture. Then pulse them.
The sandwich was delicious. It was easy to make required very few things yet got an great taste .Thankss for the recipe
Welcome. Glad to know you liked it
Superr Delicious
Thank you
Wow…….. Wow………….. Wow……………. I made this today by adding nawabi meat masala & cream. Wonderful recipe. lovely taste. It tasted like a non veg dish.
Hi shalini, this recipe was actually to make a mouth melting mutton kheema masala curry. i used soya and cauliflower instead of mutton. Thanks for your constant reviews and support. Iam glad to know you liked it.
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Woo!!!!
This needs to be made very soon by me..looks awesome
So tempting,looks fab
wow….Looks sooper delicious….Lovely color and tempting!
looks so spicy and flavourful..
Very flavorful and wholesome curry…Looks delicious
Exotic and yummy treat Swasthi..Loved the entire idea.
soya chunks curry is a healthy substitute to end up when pantries are null…delicious and spicy one…