Soya Chunks Biryani is a tasty spiced meal made by cooking soya chunks with tempered onions, tomato and spices. Soya Chunks Biryani pars non veg Biryani in taste and a filler during Vrat / fasting days & when kitchen runs out of veggies. Soya Chunks Biryani also called Meal Maker Biryani is explained in this post with step by step pictures.
I wanted to try Soya chunks Biryani for a long time but my behind thoughts never let me to…..as having tried quite a few soya chunks recipes, I always had a doubt of how well the soya will blend with the biryani masala…..so hence the delay. Now I know this biryani will sure be in our menu often, this can easily fit in your kids lunch box too. This is healthy, nutritious and sure a yum biryani combo.
I wanted to make biryani just with soya chunks but if you prefer you can add other vegetables with the biryani too.
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Soya Chunks Biryani | Meal Maker Biryani
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/4 cups basmati rice
- 3/4 cups soya chunks I used the mini soya chunks
- 1 big onion chopped lengthwise
- 2 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- 1 and 1/2 cups water
- salt to taste
TO GRIND TO A PASTE:
- 1 medium sized tomato
- 1/4 cup coriander leaves
- 1/8 cup mint leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
TO TEMPER:
- 2 teaspoon oil
- 1/2 tablespoon ghee
- 2 cloves
- 2 cardamom
- 1/4 inch piece cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon shahi jeera
- 1 bay leaf
Instructions
- Boil 1 cup water wit a tablespoon of milk and little salt. Once it starts boiling rigorously switch it off and add the soya chunks, set aside for 10mins. It grows almost double in size now.
- Rinse with cold water thrice at least to get rid of the raw smell of soya chunks.
- Grind the ingredients under the list ‘to grind’ to a fine paste. Set aside.
- Heat oil + ghee – add the ingredients under the list ‘to temper’ add ginger garlic paste, onions and fry till it turns slightly browned.
- Then add the mint coriander paste along with red chilli powder and garam masala powder. Fry till raw smell leaves.
- Then add the soya along with salt. Mix well until the gravy is well blended with the soya.
- Presoak rice in water for 15mins. Drain water and add the rice, give a quick stir.
- Now add coconut milk, water and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles in low medium flame. Once pressure releases, open and carefully fluff the rice with a fork.
- Serve Soya Chunks Biryani hot with onion raita!
Notes
- Adding shahi jeera gives a nice unique flavour. But if you don't have it, just go ahead with normal jeera(cumin seeds).
- Soya chunks by itself is totally bland so the spices and masalas should be dominating to give it a nice blend.
- You can garnish with coriander leaves too at the finish.
Soya Chunks Biryani Recipe Step by Step
1.Boil 1 cup water wit a tablespoon of milk and little salt. Once it starts boiling rigourously switch it off and add the soya chunks, set aside for 10mins. Can you see it has grown almost double in size now.
2.Rinse with cold water thrice atleast to get rid of the raw smell of soya chunks.Grind the ingredients under the list ‘to grind’ to a fine paste. Set aside.
3.Heat oil + ghee – add the ingredients under the list ‘to temper’ add ginger garlic paste, onions and fry till it turns slightly browned. Then add the mint coriander paste along with red chilli powder and garam masala powder.Fry till raw smell leaves.
4.Then add the soya along with salt. Mix well until the gravy is well blended with the soya. Presoak rice in water for 15mins. Drain water and add the rice, give a quick stir.
5.Now add coconut milk, water and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles in low medium flame. Once pressure releases, open and carefully fluff the rice with a fork.
Serve hot with onion raita!
Expert Tips
- Adding shahi jeera gives a nice unique flavour. But if you dont have it, just go ahead with normal jeera(cumin seeds).
- Soya chunks by itself is totally bland so the spices and masalas should be dominating to give it a nice blend.
- You can garnish with coriander leaves too at the finish.
Surya Gopi
looks divine!! 🙂
Prathima Rao
delicious biryani!!! healthy too 🙂 Love the ingredients for the masala..routine ings but yet a new combo!!
Prathima Rao
Prats Corner
Tamilarasi Sasikumar
Looks Delicious…
APARNARAJESHKUMAR
lovely one ! sharmi
Suja Manoj
Love this healthy version..yum biryani
divya
slurp…looks very tempting…
Sangeetha Priya
Delectable Biryani!!!
Reshmi Mahesh
Delicious flavorful biryani…
Nupur
I like the bland taste of Soya Chunks a lot, never thought of giving this recipe a fancy name like Soya Chunk Biryani, but it indeed tastes like it 😛
Sangeetha
Loved ur grind masala ingredients , sounds flavorful…biryani looks so yummy !!
Gauri
Looks good enough to eat .. even for breakfast!
prathibha Garre
I love the taste of soya chunks in biriyanis, looks delicious
Priya Gurusamy
healthy receipe. Protein,calcium and fiber rich soya is good for women. thanks for the receipe using soya.
Priya Gurusamy
healthy receipe. Protein,calcium and fiber rich soya chunks is good for women. thanks for this healthy one using soya
RAKS KITCHEN
havenot tried it before, but tempts me a lot. 🙂
Vimitha Anand
Healthy and protein rich flavorful biryani Sharmi.
Uma Ramanujam
Looks wonderful. I often prepare it as the Husband loves soya a lot.
Priya
I do this briyani quite often if i dont meats, an excellent flavourful briyani;
Chitra
i love soya chunks a lot..will try this.. thnx for sharing 🙂
Sangeetha
I tried this Biryani, mainly for the grinding ingredients, glad that I did n the biryani tasted delicious n so flavorful…except the coconut milk addition I followed the same procedure, fennel-coriander-pepper flavor blended well with biryani, Chance a illa 🙂 super!! Thanks!!
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M D
Fabulous looking biryani!
stella
i tried it…it was so delicious…loved it…thank u for the recipe…
Jaya Raja
I tried this biryani abd it came out very well.buy why do u add i tbspoon milk to water when boiling soya balls?
Jaya Raja
Hi i tried this biryani and it came out really well. Want to know why u add little milk to water while boiling soya balls?
Kavitha
i tried this biryani yesterday and it was really awesome. i have never cooked soya chunks in my life but this was really a alteration in the daily cooking style…
my husband and even my picky kid loved this dish….thanks to you…so im gonna try all the dishes in ur site …
Abinaya Baskaran
I tried it today…it's wonderful… Thx for the recipe