This curry is a very basic and simple recipe that I use for days when Im too tired or too lazy to cook (the latter if more often the culprit). No grinding of masalas, and no high funda ingredients, and it gets done in just under 20 minutes. You can add some vegetables of your choice or have it plain.
Recipe serves 2 people
Ingredients
3 cups Soya Chunks, boiled for about 5 minutes in water with salt
1 Onion, sliced
1 Potato, squared
1 Capsicum, squared
Any other vegetables of your choice
2 Tomatoes, chopped
1 Green Chilly, slit
1/2 tbsp Sombu/Saunf
1/2 tbsp Garlic, chopped
Curry Leaves, a handful
1/2 tbsp Salt
1/2 tbsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Chilly powder (for extra spice)
2 tbsp Cooking Oil
Method
- In a pan, heat oil,
- Add sombu/saunf.
- Add the onion, green chilly, curry leaves.
- After the onion turns pink, add chopped garlic and chopped tomatoes.
- Cook for a while until tomatoes turn mushy.
- Add the rest of the vegetables and saute for a second until it all mixes well.
- Add 2 cups of water along with the squeezed out soya chunks.
- Add salt, turmeric powder, and chilly powder as per your taste, and cook covered for 2 minutes.
- The soya chunks would have absorbed the juices of the gravy.
- Open cook the mixture until it dries up and the soya chunks become firm.
- Serve hot.
Pictorial
Take your ingredients...
..and your veggies
In a pan, heat oil, and add sombu/saunf
Add onion, green chilly and curry leaves
Add chopped garlic
Add tomatoes
Add your chopped veggies
Add water and spices (salt, turmeric powder, chilly powder)
Add soya chunks
Cook covered for a while, then open cook until the mixture dries up.
Serve hot.
