Soy Curls Chick'n Masala

So I got this bag of soy curls which after hydrating turns soft and you can put it in any seasoning and it will take that flavor. So wanted to make chicken masala, everyone makes butter chicken from that so nothing new in it but I just wanted my old time favorite simple chicken masala to pair it with  rice. It came out so good that now it become one of my new favorite. I have used ready made fried onions but if you don't have it you can use fresh onions and cook till it becomes brown.

Ingredients : 

1/2 cup  not soaked soy curls which will yield 1 cup of it

1/2 cup ready made fried onions

Whole spices - Bay leaf, black pepper corns, cinnamon sticks

1 tbsp. Tomato paste if you don't have it then 1/2 cup tomato puree

1 tbsp. Kashmiri chili powder

1/2 tbsp. Spicy chili powder - if you like spicy then

1 tbsp. roasted cumin powder

1/2 tbsp. turmeric powder

Salt as per taste

Fresh chopped coriander leaves and ginger julienne for garnish 

2 tbsp. Oil

Method :

Soak soy curls in water for 5 to 10 minutes then take it out and remove the water out from it. keep it separate.

In a pan, add oil , when it become hot, add whole spices and cook it for a minute.

Then add fried onions  and mix it with whole spices.

Add tomato paste / Puree and mix it , add 1/4 cup water to cook the tomato.

Add red chili, turmeric powder, cumin powder and mix it and let it cook for on low flame for 4 minutes.

then add soy curls and mix it and adjust the gravy consistency and add salt and then cook it on low flame for 5 minutes. 

When you get your desired consistency, switch off and serve hot with rice , paratha  , naan.

Garnish it with fresh chopped coriander leaves and ginger julienne. 

Restaurant style Gravy with Soy Chaap

If you know me I don't like watery gravy, I love to eat smooth and thick gravy with my paneer or vegetables or soya chunks or chaap. This is the perfect gravy to go with chicken and eggs too. For chicken follow everything as it is just need little more water and time to cook the gravy. For eggs, you can boiled it and then proceed with the rest of the recipe. Here I made it with my favorite soy chaap. Its quick and easy and just need minimum ingredients all available in our pantry. So do try and let me know. 

Ingredients : 

2 soy chaap cut in pieces

4 tbsp Ginger garlic paste

2 onions finely chopped

5 Dry chili whole

2 tomatoes diced

salt as per tasste

10 pieces of cashews

1 tbsp Turmeric Powder

2 tbsp Kashmiri chili powder

1 tbsp Garam masala powder

2 tbsp Cumin coriander powder

4 tbsp oil /butter combo

1/4 cup finely chopped coriander leaves

Method : 

Cut your chaap , first length wise and make pieces. 

Add  2 tbsp ginger garlic paste in it and leave it till you prep for gravy., or at-least for 15 minutes

In a pan roast cashew and dry chilies for two minutes. 

Take it out and grind it. 

then add tomatoes in chili and cashew  mix and grind it and make a smooth paste.

Add  2 oil in the pan cook soy chaap for 2-3 minutes. 

Take it out and keep it on side. 

Add rest of the oil and butter and add onions and cook till its brown. 

Add ginger garlic paste, cook for few minutes, add turmeric powder, cumin coriander powder, kashmiri chili powder and mix it and cook for a minute. 

add the puree and cook for 5 minutes on medium flame. 

Add garam masala powder and salt , Coriander leaves and mix it

Add soy chaap in it and add hot water (depend on how thick gravy you want ) and mix it and cover it and cook it till all masala cooked nicely and coated to chaap. 

shut off the flame, sprinkle more coriander leaves and enjoy it with naan, rice or both or paratha. 

Vegetable Meatballs in Butter Masala Sauce

Its very easy to make butter masala gravy at home, you just need some basic ingredients and mix well and you are done, I have used meatballs in it but you can use chicken, paneer, mix vegetables and its done, only time consuming in this recipe is when you have to sieve the gravy once its cold , but the outcome is awesome so its all worth it. I have take this recipe from Rohan Bhatt from Foodaholics groups in Facebook.



Ingredients : 

2 cups diced tomatoes
1 cup diced onions
1/2 cup cashews
4 whole dry red chilies (De seeded)
5 vegetarian meatballs
2 tbsp butter
1 bay leaf
4 cloves
4 green elichi pods
2 small sticks of cinnamon
1 tbsp each ginger and garlic paste
1 tbsp honey
Salt as per taste

Method :

Heat oil in pan, add tomatoes, onions, cashews and dry chilies and all whole masala in it.

Add glass of water and cook on low flame for 20-30 minutes.

Switch off the flames and take out , bay leaf, cinnamon.

When mixture is cool , make  a puree of it , no extra water needed.

In the same pan, add 2 tbsp butter, when its hot, add ginger garlic paste.

Either you can sieve the gravy and keep it in different container or you can directly sieve it in pan.

Add water and let the gravy boil for few minutes.

Add honey and salt.

Add meatballs  / paneer / chicken what ever you are adding and cook for few minutes.

In the end , add crushed kasoori methi and enjoy hot with home made tandori roti or paratha or rice.

I had it with home made tandori roti.

Naan Bowl - Soy Chorizo and Jeera Rice - Vegetarian

We see smoothie bowls, fruit bowls, burrito bowl, buddha's bowl why not our own Indian way of serving food in the bowl? Here is my version of Naan bowl with soy chorizo and Jeera rice on top of naan which I pressed between two bowls to give a shape of a bowl.  Here I have used ready made bowl but if you want you can make fresh one and use it. I have already made soy chorizo before but that time I have used potatoes so this time I made it with boiled eggs, you can omit that and make vegetarian also. I served it with Raita if you want you can omit also. 

When everything is ready, this dish is very different to enjoy it, presentation wise. You can make it with dry chicken khema  or Paneer bhurjee is also good. 

Ingredients : 

4 Ready-made naan

Choriza Masala

1 cup Soaked Rice

1 tsp. Jeera

Salt to taste

1 tsp. oil

Method : 

Cook Chorizo as per the link is given. You can substitute with eggs instead of potatoes or make paneer bhurjee. 

In a pot,  add oil, when it's hot, add jeera in it, when it changes the color, add rice and mix it. 

Add enough water to cook the rice, add salt and prepare rice. 

Heat up the pan for naan. 

I have used frozen naan so I put it from freezer to hot pan, add little butter and cook on both sides. 

when it's cooked, take two circle bowl. Put naan on one bowl and pressed it with another bowl. so its shaped in a bowl. 

See the picture. 

Keep it for 5 minutes till it forms the shape. 

Take it out naan, on one side, put the cooked rice and on other side put the cooked chorizo. on the side, you can serve it raita. 

You can put naan bowl in a dish and enjoy with friends.