Soya Chunks Dal Rice Recipe

Soya dal rice is our families favourite dish. Whenever I don't have any veggies in our home, my choice is soya dal rice only. Its very easy and can be done quickly. Coconut chutney and mixed green chutney are best side dish for this soya dal rice.

Ingredients:

1. Cooking Rice - 1 Cup
2. Toor Dal - 1/4 cup 
3. Small Soya Chunks - 1 cup
4. Shallots - 10 numbers
5. Tomato - 1
6. Green Chilli - 2 to 3 nos
7. Garlic pods - 4 nos
8. Mustard - 1/8 tsp
9. Jeera/cumin - 2 tsp
10. Sambar powder - 2 tsp 
11. Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
12. Curry leaves - 1 sprig
13. Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp
14. Cooking Oil - 2 tbsp
15. Coconut Oil - 1 tbsp
16. Salt as per taste

Cooking Method:

Be ready with the Ingredients. Soak rice and dal together for half an hour.

• Take a pressure pan add oil followed by mustard seeds. Let it splutters. 
• Then add shallots, cumin, green chilli, garlic and curry leaves. 
• After a while add tomatoes and saute till it becomes soft. 
• Now add sambar powder and turmeric powder. 
• Saute it for some seconds. 
• Finally add soya chunks and saute till all the ingredients mix well along with soya. 
• Add 3 cups of water or according to your rice add enough water and salt. Close the lid of the pressure pan loosely. 
• Let the bubbles come. 
• Now add the soaked rice and dal mix well with the laddle and finally close the lid. 
• Wait for 3 whistles and simmer for 5 mins. After pressure leaves fluff the rice softly with spoon. Season with 1 tbsp of coconut oil and serve hot.

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Notes:
Sambar powder can be replaced by red chilli powder and coriander powder.

Soya chunks / Meal Maker Fry

Soya chunks fry is one of my favourite recipe. It is very easy to prepare. whenever I don't find any of the vegetables in my home, my only choice is Soya/mealmaker. 

Ingredients:

• Soya chunks / Meal Maker - 1 cup
• Onion - 1 medium size
• Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp
• Fennel / sombu - 1 tsp
• Grated Coconut - 1tbsp
• Sambar powder - 2 tsp 
• Curry leaves - 1 sprig
• Coriander leaves for Garnishing
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Salt as per taste

Method:

Take 1 cup of soya chunks and add to a cooking pan and bring it to boil. Once the bubbles appear switch off the stove and close with a lid for about 5 to 10 minutes. 

Then open the lid and squeeze the water out from the soya and transfer to another bowl. 

Make the Ingredients ready which is shown below. Take a frying pan add oil, fennel, ginger garlic paste and then add onion and curry leaves one after another and saute. It gives a nice aroma of fennel and Ginger garlic paste. Now add the soya and saute for a minute. 

At this stage add the sambar powder and salt and saute till it turns to golden brown color. Saute in medium low flame. It takes about 5 to 8 minutes. Finally add grated coconut and saute for another 2 minutes so that the coconut gets fried well. Garnish with Coriander leaves.

Notes : 

• Home made Sambar powder is preferrable.
• Instead of Sambar powder you can use coriander and red chilli powder.