Soya chunks Pulav

Ingredients:-

Soya chunks - 1 cup(200g)
Potato - 1 medium, cut into cubes
Onion - 1 large
Ginger - 1inch piece chopped finely
Garlic pods - 5 chopped finely
Green chillies - 1 large chopped finely
Garam masala - 1tbsp
Chilli powder - 1tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
Ghee/oil - 1tbsp
Basmati rice - 1 cup(washed and drained)
Water - 1 and 3/4 cups
Salt - to taste

Preparation:-

Boil the soya chunks in salt water until soft. Drain the water and allow it to cool. Heat a kadai, add oil/ghee to it. Add onion, green chilly, ginger and garlic and fry them until the rawness goes off and the onion turns translucent. Add potato and soya chunks to this. Fry it for 2 mins and add the powders. Give it a good mix and add the basmati rice. Fry this for few mins until the basmati rice is coated with ghee and masala. Transfer this to a pressure cooker. Add water and salt to this. Once the steam comes out, simmer the stove and put the weight on and keep it for 3 whistles. Once the pressure releases, separate the rice using a fork. This can be had with tomato and onion raitha.

Soya chunks curry

Ingredients:-

Nutrela mini soya chunks - 1 cup(200g)

Onion - 1 large, chopped fine

Tomato - 1 large, chopped fine

Green chilly - 1, chopped fine

Refined oil - 1tbsp

Garam masala - 1tbsp

Red chilli powder - 1tsp

Coriander powder - 1tbsp

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Salt - to taste

Preparation:-

Boil water along with little salt. Add soya chunks and boil until soft. Once soft, strain the soya chunks from the water. Allow it to cool. In the meantime, heat a kadai and add oil to it. Add onion and green chillies. Once the onion turns translucent, add chopped tomato. Add salt to speed up the cooking process of tomatoes. Once the tomato-onion mixture turns mushy, add the garam masala, coriander powder and chilli powder. Fry it for 2 mins, make sure this is not burnt. Squeeze the water out of the drained soya chunks using your hands and add to the kadai. Again fry it for few mins until the soya chunks is coated with the mixture. This curry is more of a dry kind. Add water if you like your curry to be gravy type.

P.S:- One variation to the above preparation can be made by marinating the boiled soya chunks(after squeezing out of the water) in the coriander powder, chilli powder and garam masala mixture for some time. Add this marinated chunks to the tomato onion mixture after it turns mushy.