Ingredients
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Instructions
Cooking Steps
Step 1: To begin making the Soya Pilaf recipe, wash, drain and soak rice in fresh water for minimum 30 minutes before cooking
Step 2: In a saucepan, boil water and add soya chunks in it and boil
Step 3: Drain and keep aside to cool
Step 4: Once cool, squeeze them to take off excess water and keep them separate in a plate/bowl
Step 5: Heat oil/ghee in a wok, add the potatoes, fry them and keep it aside
Step 6: In the same pan, add bay leaf, all the dry whole garam masala, shahi jeera in the reaming ghee/oil and allow it to splutter
Step 7: Add finely chopped onions and fry till light and translucent
Step 8: Add green chillies, ginger paste, garlic paste and fry for about a minute on low medium heat
Step 9: Add chopped tomato along with coriander powder, red chilli powder and fry well till the ghee starts leaving from the sides
Step 10: Add soya chunks and salt, mix all together, fry again for 1-2 minutes
Step 11: After 1-2 minutes, add a little water just to wet the masala and cook it with the lid closed on low flame
Step 12: Meanwhile in another large thick bottomed vessel, add lots of water with little salt, few drops of oil and lemon juice and allow it to boil
Step 13: Once the water is hot and starts boiling, add soaked rice and cook till the rice is 90% done
Step 14: Turn off the gas and strain the rice very carefully and spread it in a big flat tray so that the grains doesn't stick to each other
Step 15: Allow it to cool a bit
Step 16: Do not stir them as the grains may break
Step 17: The next step is to assemble and layer the Soya Pilaf
Step 18: Take a vessel in which you want to assemble the pilaf
Step 19: Spread rice at the bottom of the vessel and then layer it with the some soya gravy
Step 20: Spread some rice again and then pour the remaining soya gravy on it with fried potatoes
Step 21: Again, spread some rice and garnish it with fresh mint leaf, freshly chopped coriander, lemon juice, fried onions, some kewda water and fried dry fruits
Step 22: Close the lid and allow the pilaf to cook for another 10 mins on low flame
Step 23: For this take an iron tawa and place the pilaf vessel on it
Step 24: Once the pilaf is done, hold the vessel from both sides and shake it vigorously, this will mix the soya gravy and the rice evenly inside without breaking the grains
Step 25: Serve Soya Pilaf with Burani Raita, Beetroot Raita or any other Raita of your choice