Saturday, July 26, 2014

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.




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