Tehri- A rice dish with soy nuggets

Ingredients
(serves 4)

• Basmati rice (Amazon Link for Basmati Rice) 1 cups
• Soya nuggets ½  cup
• Onion  1 medium
• Tomato  1 medium
• Green chilies 2-3
• Cashews ¼ cup (optional)
• Potato  1 medium
• Carrot   1 medium
• Green bell pepper/ capscium   ¼ cup chopped (optional)
• Green peas ½ cup
• Salt 1½ tsp/ to taste 
• Red chili powder ½ tsp
• Turmeric powder   ½ tsp
• Coriander powder  1 tsp
• Garam masala   ½ tsp
• Chopped coriander leaves  2 tbsp
• Ghee /oil  2-3  tbsp

1. Clean, wash, and soak rice in two cups of water for 20 minutes.
2. Soak the soya nuggets with little salt in the warm water for 15 minutes.

3. Peel, wash and chop the onion. Remove the stem, wash and chop the green chilies.
4. Wash and finely chop the tomato.
5. Peel , wash and chop the potato and carrots into small pieces. Cut bell pepper (capscium) into small pieces.
6. Heat ghee/oil in the pressure cooker, add chopped onions and fry until translucent.
7. Add cashews, fry for a minute.
8. Add chopped green chilies and chopped tomatoes. Fry for a couple of minutes.
9. Add all the spices and fry for a few seconds. Add all the vegetables. Mix well.
10. Squeeze off the water of the soaked soya nuggets and add them to the vegetables. Fry for a minute.
11. Remove water from the soaked rice and add rice and mix well. Add about 1 cup of water (usually the ratio of basmati rice and water is 1:2). After the first boil close the lid and take a whistle.
12. Delicious tehri with soy nuggets is ready. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with plain yogurt or Raita of your taste. My children love tehri with meethi chutney. Personally, I like tehri with kachumar salad.

1. You can add some other vegetables like, cauliflower, beans, corn kernels etc in this rice preparation.
2. Paneer can also be added in tehri as per taste.
3. Increase or decrease the amount of green chilies as per taste.
4. You can also make this tehri Vaishnav style without onions.

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