It's a Saturday morning and I am again at office fiddling with the mobile handsets and logging their behaviour under normal and abnormal test conditions. Doesn’t sound too exciting right? It really isn’t. Especially for a lazy late riser like me office on weekends means the end of the world. There can be nothing more terrible and terrifying than spending a weekend stuck in my damn cubicle. The goddamn clients wanted offshore people to be at the office while they prepare themselves for their Independence day celebration (4th July). so here I am merrily sitting and typing on my pc. Thank god there is MS, I wont at least die out of boredom cooped up here.
Well frankly speaking it doesn’t seem so bad working in a peaceful atmosphere when only a handful of people are present in the floor. The pedestal fan (less people no A/c) whirrs tirelessly behind me giving me company. Electronic sounds emit from here and there occasionally giving the proof that people are actually working and not sleeping in the comfortable darkness of the floor(again less people less number of lights).
The worst part of coming on a weekend is the lunch time. My office has two towers in its premises and my tower is quite far away from the canteen. So its a real pain in the neck to go up to the canteen for lunch, with no friends to accompany you and the rains beating down relentlessly. Everybody feels the same way, hence they have an easy solution at their hands. Look up for Dominoes number, give them a call and have a pizza party at the company's expense. So it is meant to be a no hassle job. Sit back and enjoy your food and work. But the problem is the food itself. Though we work for US clients still Dil hain Hindustani and stomach bhi hindustani. So this paapi pet protests against an overdose of pizza. No offence meant but guys really don’t care about it. And why the hell would they care, it’s us girls who gain weight like crazy even while eating a cup cake.
So this poor girl is forced to think otherwise when a weekend assignment come on her way. I came home very late last night, but since I was determined not to eat pizza for lunch today, so I started thinking of something which I could make easily and fast. Let me mention again, I am a decent enough cook but terribly lazy to put together a seven course meal. My way of cooking always highlights on how easy the dish is. After thinking for a while I decided to experiment and came up with a nice and tasty recipe. Chalo I decided to share it with you all, in case there is any one like me who is lazy to cook but expects something decent to eat. So here is the recipe which I call as "Soya granules Pulao".
Ingredients (serves two):
Basmati Rice - 2 medium cup
Soya granules - 15-16 granules (or according to your wish)
Curd - 3 tea spoon
Tomato - 1 small
Onion - 2 medium
Carrot/Peas - According to your wish
Ginger-Garlic Paste - 1 tea spoon
Jeera poweder - 1/2 tea spoon
Coriander powder - 1/2 tea spoon
Garam masala(full nt powder)
Kismis, cashew - according to wish
Salt to taste
Sugar - only if you prefer the pulao to be a bit sweet
Refined oil/Ghee - 2 1/2 table spoon
Preparation:
The first job is to soak the soya granules in water. Now here is a tip, if you have very little time and want the granules ready in a jiffy then prepare some lukewarm water and add a spoon of salt to it and put the granules in it. Your granules will be ready for cooking in less than 15 minutes. While the granules are in the water, finely grate the onion and keep it aside. Grate the tomato separately. Chop the carrot into very small fine pieces and keep it aside. Also its preferable that you wash and dry the rice before you start off.
Once the granules are ready, heat a little oil in the pan and lightly fry the soya granules for two minutes. This will help in reducing the odd smell of soya granules. Keep this fried granules aside. Now mix one tea spoon of ghee and 2 table spoon of oil in a pan and heat it. Once the oil is heated put the garam masala into it. Once the flavor of garam masala startes coming put the grated onion into it. Fry till it becomes light brown. Keep stirring it occasionally so that it doesn’t get burnt. Also you can keep adding 2-3 table spoon of water occasionally while frying the onion to make sure that it dosnt get burnt. Once the onion is done put the grated tomato, curd, ginger-garlic paste. Sauté for 2-3 minutes. Add jeera and coriander power, stir well for another 3-4 minutes. Once it takes a fine thick shape put the fried soya granules and the diced carrot into it. Stir well for 5 minutes. Now add the rice to it and mix well. Let it cook for 2-3 minutes.
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