In the early fall of 2024, my wife and I had our first taste of Soya Chaap at a banquet, and we loved it. It’s essentially a mix of soy flour and wheat flower paste that gets wrapped in layers around a short popsicle stick. It takes on whatever flavours you impart, which makes it great in Curries.
Fast forward a few months from that banquet, and my wife and I found ourselves at an Indian supermarket after a yoga class that nearly killed me due as a result of its focus on abs. She found some soya chaap in one of the aisles, and we decided to buy it and try cooking with it. Once we got to play with it in our own kitchen, we started to get ideas! While on the stick, they looked a little like a chicken wing (with an inedible plant based bone, even)…so we made a mental note to buy more and cook them like a vegetarian Buffalo wing at some point. Naturally, the NFL draft became that natural “some point.”
These wings came out exactly as we’d hoped, so if you’re looking for a good vegetarian alternative to Buffalo wings, give these a shot! Also, GO BILLS!
Time: 25 Minutes
Ingredients:
- Soya Chaap
- Buffalo Sauce
- Blue Cheese Dressing
Method:
- Remove your soya chaap from the can, and rinse the brine off. Then, pat dry with a paper towel.
- Preheat your oven to 425 degrees F or your air fryer to 415 degrees F.
- Give your soya chaap a quick oil spray on all sides, and place in your oven or air fryer.
- Cook for roughly 10 minutes, and then flip. Cook for another 10 or so minutes until your soya chaap starts to brown and crisp up on the outside.
- When finished cooking, place into a large mixing bowl, and drizzle your favourite Buffalo sauce atop. Toss to coat.
- Plate, dip in your Blue Cheese dressing, Devour, and enjoy!
