How To Make Soya chunks pulav/Meal maker pulav recipe

Ingredients:
Soya chunks – 100 gm
Basmati rice – 1½ cup /300 gm (Soaked for ½ hour)
Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp
Pepper Powder – ½ tsp
Green chillies – 4 (Slit open)
Onion – 1 big (Thinly sliced)
Garlic – 4 fat cloves (chopped/crushed)
Ginger – 1 big piece (chopped/crushed)
Water – 3 cups
Ghee – 1 tbsp
Kewra water (Or Rosewater) – 1½ tbsp
Curd – 3 tbsp
Mint leaves
Coriander leaves
Bay leaves
Cinnamon – 1 small piece
Fennel seeds – 1 pinch
Cumin seeds – 1 pinch

For masala:
Cloves – 10
Cinnamon – 1 piece
Star anise – 1
Cardamom – 4
Fennel seeds – ½ tsp
Cumin – ¼ tsp
Mace – ¼th of a whole

Steps:
Soak soya chunks in hot water for 10 minutes.
Then squeeze out and discard the water from the soft soya chunks.
Keep it aside.

Dry roast the spices and keep aside.
Then grind it to a fine powder.

Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan.
Add a small piece of cinnamon, a pinch of fennel seeds, a pinch of cumin seeds and 2 bay leaves.
Add ginger and garlic.
Add onion and green chillies and saute well.
Once the onion starts turning brown, add turmeric powder and pepper powder.
Add soya chunks, curd and salt.
Add 1 tsp of freshly made masala to this. Mix well.
Cover and cook for 5 minutes on medium flame.
Add water on high flame. Add mint leaves, coriander leaves and the dry ground masala and mix well.
Add salt, if needed.
Cover the pan and bring the water to boil.
Add rice and kewra water. Mix well.
Cook covered.
Once the water boil, cook on medium flame.
Add 1 tbsp ghee when the rice is half cooked.
Cook covered till it’s done.
Switch off the stove and transfer it to a bowl.
Serve the soya chunks pulao.

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