Soya Chunks Biryani is a tasty one pot meal made by cooking soya chunks with basmati rice, onion, tomato, tempered herbs and spices. Soya Chunks Biryani also called Meal Maker Biryani pars non veg biryani in taste and a filler during Vrat / fasting days & when kitchen runs out of vegetables. Learn to make Soya Chunks Biryani with step by step pictures.
Soya Chunks Biryani is a flavorful one pot meal that can be made quickly and easily. This is one of the quickest biryani as there is not much of chopping just onion, tomato so gets done easily. This biryani is best to pack for lunchbox too.
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About Soya Chunks Biryani
Soya Chunks Biryani is a aromatic and flavorful biryani made with soya chunks popularly known as meal maker. I saw this biryani recipe in a TV show which I adapted to suit my family taste and now this has been my keeper for years.
You can make Soya Chunks Biryani with vegetables also. 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.
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Soya Chunks Biryani Ingredients
- Rice – Basmati rice is best to use. However you can use seeraga samba rice too.
- Ginger garlic paste – Ginger garlic paste is added for flavor.
- Spice powders – Red chili powder and garam masala powders are added.
- Coconut milk – Coconut milk adds flavor.
- Masala paste – Tomato along with mint, coriander leaves, pepper and fennels seeds are grind to a paste and used.
- Tempering – Whole spices like cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, bayleaf and shahi jeera are tempered in oil, ghee.
How to make Soya Chunks Biryani Step by Step
1.Boil 1 cup water with a tablespoon of milk and little salt. Once it starts boiling rigorously switch it off and add the soya chunks, set aside for 10 minutes. Can you see it has grown almost double in size now.
2.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.
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 chili powder and garam masala powder. Saute 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 15 minutes. Drain water and add the rice, give a quick stir.
5.Now add coconut milk, water and pressure cook for 3 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 flavor. 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.
Serving and Storage
Biryani with raita is an unbeatable combo! Onion Raita, Pineapple Raita , Cucumber Raita, Carrot Raita are some of the raita suggestions.
Biryani gets tasty with time, so you can refrigerate & reheat for later use within the next day of preparation.
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Soya Chunks Biryani Recipe | Meal Maker Biryani Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/4 cups basmati rice
- 3/4 cups soya chunks I used the mini soya chunks
- 1 medium sized big onion
- 2 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1/2 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- 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
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 cloves
- 2 cardamom
- 1/4 inch piece cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon shahi jeera
Instructions
- Boil 1 cup water with a tablespoon of milk and little salt. Once it starts boiling rigorously switch it off and add the soya chunks, set aside for 10 minutes. Can you see it has grown 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 chili powder and garam masala powder. Saute 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 15 minutes. Drain water and add the rice, give a quick stir.
- Now add coconut milk, water and pressure cook for 3 whistles in low medium flame. Once pressure releases, open and carefully fluff the rice with a fork.
- Serve hot with onion raita!
Notes
- Adding shahi jeera gives a nice unique flavor. 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.
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
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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