Homemade Chole or Chana Masala
Homemade Chole or Chana Masala

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, homemade chole or chana masala. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chana masala recipe - Easy chole recipe with minimum ingredients made in restaurant style. Punjabi chole masala or chana masala is one of the most popular curry dishes from India. In fact in north India no wedding or party is complete until you have chole masala on the menu.

Homemade Chole or Chana Masala is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Homemade Chole or Chana Masala is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade chole or chana masala using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Chole or Chana Masala:
  1. Make ready 3 cup kabuli chana (soaked overnight)
  2. Get 4 tsp oil
  3. Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
  4. Get 2 onion, finely chopped
  5. Prepare 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
  6. Prepare 2 tomatoes, finely chopped
  7. Take 3 green chilly
  8. Take 1 tbsp red chilli powder
  9. Make ready 1 tsp turmeric powder
  10. Make ready 1 tsp coriander powder
  11. Prepare to taste salt
  12. Make ready 1 tsp garam masala
  13. Take 2 cups water
  14. Prepare 2 tsp coriander leaves, finely chopped
  15. Prepare 2 tsp chole masala (i used MDH)
  16. Prepare 1/2 tbsp jeera

Then pressure cooking them until tender. I use a homemade garam masala but you can use any that is aromatic. You can also use readymade chole masala if you have one. This is because homemade chole masala powder is pure, free of adulteration, fresh and made with love!

Steps to make Homemade Chole or Chana Masala:
  1. Make sure the kabuli chana is soaked overnight. Now boil the kabuli chana for atleast 5-6 whistles in a pressure cooker. (You can add some salt for boiling)
  2. In a mixer, separately onion, green chilly. Also separately grind tomato to make paste.
  3. Now heat oil in frying pan. Add cumin seeds, jeera, onion paste, ginger garlic paste and tomato paste and fry it till it get dried.
  4. Now add red chilli powder, coriander & turmeric powder, garam masala and chole masala. Saute it well for 4-5 minutes. Add extra oil if required.
  5. Add the boiled kabuli chana to the pan and mix it well. Add 2 cups of water and let it boil for 5-8 minutes. Make sure water is not completely dried up as we want the gravy to be thick and but very thick.
  6. Garnish with coriander and serve it with bhature or nan. Enjoy!

They have a strong aroma and intense flavour When mixed with kabuli chana (chick peas) to make the ever popular North Indian Chole Bhature or for other innovative dishes like Chole Samosa. Chole also known chickpea, garbanzo, and kable chana, Chana Masala is a cooked in a spicy tomato gravy. This is a very popular, served with Naan, Tandori Roti. Chana Masala goes well with any Indian flat bread, like Naan, Paratha, Puri. and can also be served with Western bread or pita bread. This Punjabi Chana Masala or Chole Masala is an authentic North Indian style Chickpea Curry made with white chickpeas, freshly powdered spices, onions, tomatoes and herbs.

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