Easiest Cholle recipe

Easiest cholle recipe I ever made, it goes very well with poori or bhatura. There in no time consuming Tadka sauteing onion, tomatoes etc. Someone told me that this is also called Pindi Chana or Chikkad Cholle!

Here are the ingredients:
4 cups Chickpeas soaked overnight (I tried to use canned chickpeas once and it didn't turn out as good as the original recipe)
1 large yellow onion finely chopped
2-3 medium size tomatoes pureed in grinder (always use fresh tomatoes, it will make a difference:)
2-3 green chilies
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
1 tea bag
Salt to taste
1 teaspoon chole masala
1 teaspoon regular garam masala
2 tbsp amchoor powder
Crushed anardana (dried pomegranate seeds) 1 tbsp
Chat masala (optional and to taste)
4 tbsp oil
1 teaspoon whole jeera (cumin seeds)
1 teaspoon mustard seeds
2 tej patta (bay leaves)
2-3 whole red chilies (optional)

Recipe:

Note: The quantity of all spices can be adjusted to your taste, if you like it mild reduce their amounts accordingly.
Put soaked chickpeas in a pressure cooker and put enough water to cover them and another two cups. Add salt to taste and a teabag. Pressure cook, I usually do it on medium flame and let it whistle 5-6 times.
Open the cooker to check if they are cooked, you should be able to mash them between your fingers easily. To these cooked chickpeas add chopped onion, tomatoes, green chilies, cilantro, garam masala, chana masala, crushed anardana and amchoor powder. Don't mix it in yet, heat oil in a small pan add jeera, mustard seeds, bay leaves, red chilies and heat it until mustard seeds pop. Then dump it over the heap of onion, tomatoes and masala in the cooker. Put cooker back on flames and mix everything in. Crush some chickpeas with a ladle and keep it on flame until you see a nice consistency cholle. Taste it and add chat masala accordingly.

In the pic below you will see that mine has a little gravy in it, you can decrease the amount of water if you want to make it a little dry.

Khatti Meethi Chutney in 5 min

I got this recipe from one of my Gujrati friends (thanks Mitali), its super easy yet very tasty sweet and sour chutney. Preparation time is approximately 5 minutes :)

Here are the ingredients
1 cup apple butter (you can find this in jam/peanut butter isle in any grocery store, just to clarify its not apple sauce but apple butter) 
Juice of 1 large lemon
1/2 teaspoon of chat masala
1/2 teaspoon of red chili flakes or red chili powder
Black salt to taste
1/2 teaspoon of roasted cumin powder
Water 1/2 to 1/3rd of cup depending on what consistency you want

The amount of all the above ingredients can be varied according to your taste, so if would like it to be more chatpata add more chat masala. I sometime put in tamarind juice instead of chat masala if I have it. 

Put apple butter in a bowl and mix in all other ingredients and you chutney is ready! It goes very well with any kind of snack.

Garlic bread

This is one dough which can be used in multiple ways, I use it to make garlic bread, tawa naan, bhature, pizza base and buns!

Here are the ingredients for dough (this will make 8-10 naans or buns , 12-16 bhature depending upon their size and is enough to make a medium to large pizza depending upon thickness of the crust)

2 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup of milk (I use full fat)
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp oil

To activate yeast you would need
1/5 cup of lukewarm water (warm it in microwave for 5-8 sec)
1 tsp active dry yeast
1 tsp sugar

For garlic bread I use "Johnny's Garlic Spread and Seasoning", got this from Costco. And you would also need 2-3 tbsp butter after baking.

Activate yeast by mixing sugar and dry yeast in lukewarm water and keep it aside for about 5 minutes. You will see the solution becomes frothy indicating that your yeast is working.

Put together all the other ingredients in a kneading bowl along with activated yeast and knead it until you get a soft dough. Add more water as required. To make garlic bread I put in 1 tbsp of garlic spread powder while kneading the dough.

Once done you need to rest the dough, keep it covered in a warm place for about 1 hour. You will see that it almost doubles in size in one hour, now bring it to a working surface and punch out all the air in the dough. Then spread in an oval or rectangular shape (I kept thickness at 1/4th of an inch), cut it into 1/2 inch strips and place it in a greased baking tray. You can put aluminium foil on the tray and grease it with oil.

Now cover this tray with a cloth and put it in a warm place for 20 min. After 20 minutes preheat your oven at 420F and bake the bread for 15-20 minutes (time can vary depending upon the oven).
It will be ready when the crust turns golden brown.

Put softened butter in a bowl and mix in 1 tbsp of garlic spread. Brush this mixture on the bread immediately after you take it out of the oven. And your bread is ready to serve. If it gets cold, just cover it with foil and put it in oven at 350F for 2-3 minutes.

You can use the same dough and make naan on tawa and brush it with same butter and garlic powder mixture to make garlic naan!!