Soya chunks gravy... new style

Hi all.... I am back with another slightly different recipe of Soya chunks, which is one of our favorite and easy to cook.

First of all, soak the soya chunks in water. Now, chop 2 onions, 1 tomato, 2-3 green chillis and take few curry leaves.
Heat 2 teaspoon of oil in a kadai and fry the onions, curry leaves and green chillis. Once they are brown, remove it from the kadai and now add tomato pieces to the same kadai and fry for few minutes. Add all these to a mixer jar and make fine paste.

Now add little oil in the same kadai and when its hot add few mustard and cumin seeds, ginger-garlic paste and the paste. Now add turmeric, chilli and coriander powder, little garam masala and salt. Mix it well and when the gravy starts boiling, add the soya chunks after squeezing out the water in it. Close the lid and cook for ten minutes. Then, add chopped coriander leaves on top of the gravy and switch off the burner.

The mouth-watering gravy is now ready ! 

Cauliflower and Soya chunks Gravy

Hi.. I tried this for the first time today as i dint had any other vegetable at home and i m too lazy to go shopping for vegetables in the morning. And thus goes the simple recipe... which tasted good and different from usual.

Cut cauliflower into small pieces, add water and boil it along with soya chunks (10 mins).

Remove that and heat the pan, add oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds first. When they start bursting add chopped onions and green chilli. saute for a while.
Add boiled cauliflower and soya chunks, along with turmeric powder and salt and mix well along with needed quantity of water.
Add 2 tbp Khandha-lesoon masala (Onion-garlic powder) and i always add little cumin powder and coriander powder along because i like the flavour in their mixture. But if you dont have khandha-lesoon masala you can simply just add cumin powder and coriander powder, along with chilli powder, according to your taste levels.
Mix well, cover and let it boil for 5-10 mins.
Add little garam masala and switch off the burner after 2 mins.

The gravy is ready to taste! Serve hot with rice or chapathis, if you prepare it dry.

Chole with Soya gravy

I prepared Chole (Chick peas) with Soya (Meal maker) today, as i had soaked chole the previous day itself.

I just had one onion and few green chillis, as i dint had time for shopping. So I pressure cooker boiled both chole and soya with salt and turmeric powder. I had chopped onions and green chillies and few dry curry leaves ready when it was done. So heated the oil in the pan, mustard and cumin seeds as usual, onions, g chilli, curry leaves, saute for a while till onions turn brownish. Then add the boiled stuff along with its water, chole masala, little chilli powder, cumin powder, corainder powder, mix well and let it boil well for 5 mins. At last, add garam masala and switch off the burner after 2 mins. Thats it, the gravy is done and it tasted so good with rice. My friend S, who said "not hungry now", was having lunch along with me, saying wow it smells and tastes so good that i had to eat. Lol.