I just realized that it has been a calendar week since I posted anything on my blog! Last calendar week was thence hectic. My kitchen was transformed into a mini-bakery inwards training for my really expert friend's daughter;s birthday! I baked four dozen cupcakes, five dozen cake-pops together with a beautiful Tinker Bell doll cake.I am tired but happy that I made individual else happy!
Anyways, I outset came across the soy tandoori curry dish when 1 of the grouping members from CAL, Sonal Gupta posted it. Soy nuggets are a staple inwards my household together with nosotros role it mainly inwards vegetable pulao as it contributes to our daily poly peptide intake together with my married adult man together with I both similar the sense of savor of soy. I direct keep non been using it for much else. I was thrilled when I saw this recipe together with I penned a authorities annotation to myself at the dorsum of my heed to displace this recipe soon.. For the longest, I didn't instruct a chance. Then couplet other members posted pictures of the tried recipe together with were raving close it. This gave me a novel impetus to displace it. So over the weekend I decided to become far for dinner. Hubby wanted vegetable pulao, thence I made mixed vegetable-soy pulao together with cucumber-corn salad to become with my soy tandoori curry.
Now hither is the interesting part. There is a argue why I renamed the dish "easy soy tandoori curry". When I opened upwards Sonal's recipe on her spider web log together with started reading the recipe,I gave it a cursory glance together with realized I had to marinate the soy nuggets for couplet of hours. I was doing several weekend chores that evening, thence I marinated the soy nuggets as per her recipe together with kept it aside for 2 hours. But as I started putting together the in conclusion dish together, I realized I didn't direct keep several of the ingredients that she has used inwards her dish. I didn't direct keep the onion- love apple tree glue together with when I read her link as to how to brand it, I didn't direct keep the patience or reveal energy to produce it. I also didn't direct keep whatever bell peppers. I direct keep always been a theatre believer of " making the best of what you lot have". I decided to improvise on the recipe together with brand produce with what I direct keep readily available inwards my kitchen. The goal number was a quick, yummy delicious soy tandoori curry with as delicious soy-vegetable pulao together with cucumber-corn salad. Apart from the marination, it took me 1 hr to instruct all iii dishes fix together with at the table!
So lets bring a await at my version of the soy tandoori curry. You tin detect the master copy recipe here.
Servings: 5
Ingredients:
Soy nuggets: 1 cupFor marinade:
Yogurt: 1/4 cup
Ginger garlic paste:1 tbsp
Turmeric: 1/2 tsp
Tandoori masala: 1 1/2 tsp ( I used MDH)
Salt: 1/2 tsp
Kasoori methi: 1/2 tsp
For the curry:
Oil: 1 tbsp ( I used olive oil)
Onion: 1 medium, chopped into squares together with separated
Ginger: 1 inch, cutting julienne
Tomato: 1 cutting into pocket-sized squares.
Cumin seeds( jeera): 1/2 tsp
Chilli powder: 1/2 tsp
Garam masala: 1 tsp
Sping onion: 2 chopped
Kasoori methi: 1 tsp
Water : 1-2 cups
Salt : to taste
Method:
Marination:
Boil 1 quart H2O inwards a saucepan. Turn off the flame.Add this to the soy chunks with a fiddling salt. Let it soak for thirty mins. After thirty mins, drain the soy chunks, squelch with your hands together with withdraw the excess water. Place it inwards around other bowl and add together the ingredients nether for marinade. Keep it aside for 2 hours or overnight.
The curry:
In a skillet/ sauté pan, oestrus crude on medium heat,add cumin seeds.
When they splutter add together the chopped onions. When the onions start wilting, add together the chopped ginger, sauté for a infinitesimal together with and then add together the chopped tomatoes. Sauté until the tomatoes are a fiddling wilted.
Add the chilli pulverisation together with garam masala.
Now add together the soy with the marinade together with allow it come upwards to a gentle boil.
Add the kasoori methi, saltation onions.
Garnish with fresh cilantro.
Serve hot with rice/ pulao/ bread/ roti.
Cooking made easy:
At a really early on age, my woman nurture told me that anything with the correct amount of common salt together with spice volition sense of savor good. I direct keep kept that firmly grounded inwards my mind. Always brand produce with what you lot direct keep inwards your kitchen/ pantry. Don't live on scared to experiment. It mightiness sense of savor a fiddling dissimilar than the master copy dish, but who knows??? You mightiness come upwards up with something fifty-fifty better! Once you lot are at ease inwards your kitchen together with are non afraid of failing, cooking is a breeze.. I ever say.. You win some.. You lose some. But, you lot volition never know if you lot direct keep non tried!
Tip for good for you lot living:
Soy is a keen source of protein. It is 1 of the few plant-based foods that is a consummate protein. What that agency is that it provides all the required amino acids. It also has the highest poly peptide content alongside plant-based sources. Soy nuggets together with soy granules attempt to live on a expert substitute for meat together with set down meat due to its meat-like texture. Hence, it is to a greater extent than readily acceptable to non- vegetarians.
References:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/soy/background/hrb-20060012
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20110630/benefits-of-soy-a-mixed-bag
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/facts/benefits-of-soy.htm
Food for thought:
We are what nosotros pretend to be, thence nosotros must live on careful what nosotros pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut