1 September 2009

Chick pea/ Chole

It is a North Indian famous dish.It can be served hot with bathura or puri.

  • White Kabuli Channa - 1cup
  • Onions - 3 big
  • Tomatoes - 2 big
  • Ginger - a small piece
  • Garlic - 5pods
  • Tamarind - small lemon sized
  • Jaggery - 1tbsp
  • Vanaspati or Ghee - 3 tbsp
  • Green chillies - 2
  • Chilly powder -2tsp
  • Cardamom - 3
  • Cloves - few pieces
  • Cinnamon - 1 inch piece
  • Fried chillies
  • Coriander leaves

  1. Soak Channa for 10hours with little soda bicarbonate.
  2. Pressure cook with enough water for 20 minutes and keep a side.
  3. Grind onion, ginger, garlic, cardamom, clove and cinnamon.
  4. Blanch tomatoes in hot water,remove skin and grind it.
  5. Now heat ghee in a frying pan add cumin seeds, when it splutters fry the grind ed masala paste in medium flame till ghee separates from it.
  6. Add the tomato pure and keep stiring constantly till the moisture is completely absorbed.
  7. Now add salt, chilly powder, tamarind extract, jaggery and boiled Channa with the water.
  8. Boil till the gravy is thick enough to serve.
  9. Remove from fire and garnish with fried chillies and coriander leaves.

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