Chole Recipe, Chole Masala – Different Style

Chole Recipe

Chole Recipe:

• Soak 200 gms chick peas(kabuli chana) in water overnight.
• Wash soaked kabuli chana properly and pressure cook it with pinch of salt for 5-6 whistles.
• Chop roughly 2 large size onion.
• Chop 2 medium size tomatoes.
• Cut 3/4 cup corrainder leaves and aside.
• Once your kabuli chanas are nicely pressure cooked, remove the chanas and keep in bowel and keep stock in different vessel.
• Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan. Add jeera (cumin seeds) to it.
• Put chopped half chopped onions to it.
• Once onion is slightly fried. Add half chopped tomatoes in it.
• Add 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder.
• Add 11/2 teaspoon corrainder powder.
• Add 1/2 teaspoon chili powder.
• Salt as per taste, mix and cover lid for 5 mins.
• In a grinder take half chopped onions, half chopped tomatoes, half cup coriander leaves, and garlic cloves, pinch of cumin seeds, half inch ginger and grind to the smooth paste.
• Now remove the lid from the pan and stir it properly. Add grinded masala to the chole, mix and let it cook for 2 mins.
• It’s time to add water now. Add 11/2 glass water. Cover the lid and let it cook for 10 mins.

After 10 mins remove the lid, stir. Your chole is ready, garnish with 1/2 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves. You can have chole with rice, puri, bhature and chapaties. You can also eat chole with samosas as a chat.