All Purpose flour/maida- 2 cups Sugar- 1 tsp Rava/semolina -2 tsp Salt to taste Baking soda or powder- a pinch Oil for deep frying For the Chole Chick peas/channa -1 cup Onion -1 cup Tomato -1 1/2 cup Green chilli minced-1 tbsp Ginger minced -1/2 tbsp Garlic minced -2 tbsp Ginger garlic paste-2 tsp Cashew nuts -7-10 Tomato sauce or ketchup -1 tbsp Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp Chilli powder -1/2 tsp Channa masala powder – 1/2 tbsp Chaat masala -1/2 tbsp Salt to taste For the seasoning Oil -4 tbsp Cinnamon 1 inch piece-3 Cloves-3-4 Cardamom -3 Cumin seeds -1 tsp Kala jeera/black cumin seeds-3/4 tsp Saunf/sombu -1/2 tsp For garnishing Coriander leaves -finely chopped Fried onions or fresh onions Cream or butter Dust the ball with maida (all purpose flour) and roll it out into thin pooris (it should not be too thin)
Fry both sides until golden brown. Then remove it from the oil with a slotted ladle and serve hot with chole. Repeat the same process for the rest of the dough. Punjabi Chole Recipe (Restaurant style) Preparation Wash and soak chick peas overnight. Pressure cook for 5-6 whistles or until soft with just enough water to cover the chickpeas. Soak cashew nuts in hot water and grind it to a paste. Keep it aside. First keep all the things ready. It saves you a lot of time and also you will not forget anything. Method Heat oil in a kadai, add all the ingredients mentioned under seasoning. Then add the minced ginger and garlic and saute for a few seconds.
Once the onion becomes golden brown, add ginger garlic paste and saute until the raw flavor goes. Then add finely chopped tomatoes.(picture below)
Serve Chole with hot bhatura. Prepare chole first and then bhatura. Chole and Bhatura are made for each other. Find more Made for each other breakfast combinations below- Chapati – Kurma Idli – Sambar Poori – Potato masala Puttu –Kadala curry Adai– Aviyal Idiyappam– Stew Upma Kozhukattai or Arisi Upma– Brinjal Gothsu If you found this post useful, I would really love it, if you pin it or share it with your Facebook fans or Twitter followers or Google+ circles today. All it takes is a simple click on the “pin it” “like,” “share,” “tweet,” or Google+ buttons below the post. It will keep me motivated. Thank you! Read More
