There also exists a variant with meat

This is intended to be eaten with something else, so noodles, spätzle or potatoes at your choice.

Ingredients

This is a very big portion. I usually freeze about 80% of this, in small 1-4 person portions, with the other 20% feeding like 5 people for a dinner and some snacks on the next day. Scale it down appropriately for your use case.

These values do not need to be exact. +/- 500g is fine

• ~750g dehydrated soy shreds, I'm using https://www.schokoladen-outlet.de/schokoladen-outlet/knabberei/soja-geschnetzeltes-1-kg/a-1296
• 2Kg onions
• 2Kg of bell peppers
• 8-10 L water
• a few spoonfuls of corn starch
• Spices (paprika - spicy, paprika - sweet, salt, pepper), at least 3 spoons of each
• Frying oil, e.g. sunflower oil. You will need a lot of this

Tools

• Cutting board, knife
• Big pot (~14l capacity)
• Big bowl
• A pan, bigger is better
• Smaller pots or other food containers
• Strainer (optional but recommended)

Heat 2l of water, pour into big bowl. Add 1 small spoon of salt, and the soy shreds. Place a plate on top to keep the soy shreds mostly submerged. Wait 5-10min.

Heat the pan, add some frying oil. Take about 2 handfuls of soy shreds from the bowl, squish as much water as possible out. Fry them in the pan until they are golden brown on all sides. Repeat until all of them are fried. Use plenty of frying oil, the soy shreds soak up a lot of it.

Put them into the big pot, add 6l of water. Set the heat so its boiling

Clean the onions and bell peppers, cut them into thumb sized pieces. The exact size isn't important. Add both to the pot.

Add the following spices:

• 4 spoons each of spicy and sweet paprika
• 1 spoon of salt
• 1 spoon of ground pepper. I usually grind it rather fine.

Fill up with water till it's at the 12l line aboutish.

Reduce the heat until its barely boiling. Keep boiling for 4ish hours. Regularly stir.

Have a taste, you likely need to add some more salt.

Dissolve 4 spoons of corns starch in half a cup of water. Bring to the pot to a boil again, and stir in the cup of cornstarch water.

It should thicken slightly.

Done!