Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade chole or chana masala. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really 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 favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Homemade Chole or Chana Masala is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook homemade chole or chana masala using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Chole or Chana Masala:
- Get 3 cup kabuli chana (soaked overnight)
- Take 4 tsp oil
- Take 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Take 2 onion, finely chopped
- Prepare 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Prepare 2 tomatoes, finely chopped
- Get 3 green chilly
- Get 1 tbsp red chilli powder
- Make ready 1 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1 tsp coriander powder
- Take to taste salt
- Make ready 1 tsp garam masala
- Prepare 2 cups water
- Get 2 tsp coriander leaves, finely chopped
- Get 2 tsp chole masala (i used MDH)
- Get 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!
Instructions to make Homemade Chole or Chana Masala:
- 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)
- In a mixer, separately onion, green chilly. Also separately grind tomato to make paste.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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