Meal Maker Curry / Soya Chunks Curry

 Meal maker curry /Soya chunks curry is a very tasty semi thick gravy dish made with boiled soya chunks cooked in onion tomato cashew paste and goes well with chapathi, phulkas, appam and with rice.Soya chunks is also known as meal maker. Meal Maker Curry recipe is given below with step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Meal Maker Curry / Soya Chunks Curry.

Ingredients:-

Soya chunks.       -1 cup (meal maker)
Onion.                  -1 finely chopped
Tomato.                -1 finely chopped
Cumin seeds.        -1tsp
Cinnamon.            -1 small stick
Turmeric powder. -1/4 tsp
Red chilli powder.-1 and 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder.-2 tsp
Garam masala.      -1/2 tsp
Mint leaves.           -few
Cloves.                   -3
Bay leaves.             -2
Salt.                        -to taste
Water.                     -as required
Oil.                          -2 tsp

For grinding Onion Tomato Cashew Paste :-

Onion.         -1 roughly chopped
Tomato.       -1 roughly chopped
Ginger.        -1tsp chopped
Garlic.         -4 cloves chopped
Mint leaves. -few
Cashewnuts.- 6 or 8

Instructions:-

1). Boil 3 cup of water in a vessel with 1tsp salt and add soya chunks in the boiling water. Boil and cook the soya chunks for 10 minutes on low flame. Switch off the flame and keep the soya chunks in the hot boiled water for 5 minutes.Drain boiled water and wash the cooked soft soya chunks in cold water 2-3 times. Squeeze and remove extra water from cooked soya chunks and chop each soya chunks into halves and keep them on a plate.

2). Heat 1tsp oil in a pan and add roughly chopped onion and saute well. Add chopped ginger, chopped garlic and saute well. Add roughly chopped tomato, cashewnuts and mint leaves into the pan and saute well till tomato becomes soft. Switch off the flame and keep aside the sauted ingredients to cool. Once cooled grind all the sauted ingredients together to a smooth paste without adding water. Keep aside the ground onion tomato cashew paste.

Method:-

1). Heat 2 tsp oil in a wide bottom pan and splutter cumin seeds. Add cinnamon, cloves, bay leaves, finely chopped onion and 1tsp salt into the pan and saute well till onion becomes translucent.

2). Add finely chopped tomatoes into the pan and saute well.

3). Add turmeric powder, red chilly powder coriander powder and garam masala powder into the pan and mix well.

4). Add ground onion tomato cashew paste into the pan and mix well.

5). Add 3/4 cup of water into the pan. Mix well and boil for 3 minutes on low flame.

6). Add boiled and chopped soya chunks into the pan and mix well.

7). Add finely chopped mint leaves into the pan. Mix all the ingredients in the pan and cook the curry on low flame for 2 minutes and switch off the flame.

A very tasty Meal Maker Curry / Soya Chunks Curry is ready to serve with chapathi, phulkas, appam and rice.