Soya - Aval Biriyani

I have adapted this recipe from her cookbook.As I was bored of eating my regular stuff and I wanted to try something new and hence one day I went through all the cookbooks I had.This recipe caught my attention because of the different medley of ingredients used in the recipe and hence gave a trial immediately for the dinner on the same day.It was nice to have that just for the variation from the regular stuff and infact its a healthy one.Though it is not the stuff which can be prepared for parties ,its worth trying once at home for our regular breakfast/lunch/dinner.I am just reproducing the recipe as it is mentioned by her.

Ingredients:

2 cups Thin rice flakes
1tsp Ginger paste
1/4 cup mini soya flakes
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
1/4 cup finely chopped tomatoes
1/2 cup finely chopped capsicum
1/2 cup finely chopped carrot
1/2 cup finely chopped cabbage
2 cardamoms
2 cloves
1" cinnamon
1 star anise
1 bayleaf
salt to taste
oil,ghee as required

To grind:
1/2 bunch coriander leaves
6 cashewnuts
5 shit green chillies,fried

Method:
Rinse rice flakes in water until clean.Squeeze and keep it aside.Grind all the ingredients under grind section to a fine paste.
Boil water in a pressure pan,add soya flakes and cook for 1 whistle.Drain it,and add cold water and squeeze it.Heat oil,ghee in a broad pan.Add bayleaf, masala ingredients and then saute onion.Add ginger-garlic paste,squeezed soya and stir fry.Mix capsicum,carrot,cabbage and stir fry in high flame.Add chopped tomatoes,ground paste and saute for few minutes.Add squeezed rice flakes,salt and stir fry.Serve hot with desired raitha and chips/fryums.