Choley chana (chickpeas curry)
Choley chana (chickpeas curry)

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, choley chana (chickpeas curry). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Choley chana (chickpeas curry) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Choley chana (chickpeas curry) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Chana Masala, also known as Chole (pronounced Cho-lay) is a dish where chickpeas are cooked in a spicy, flavorful onion-tomato gravy. The spices are everything when it comes to making authentic Punjabi Chole. I have tested this recipe many, many times to perfect.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have choley chana (chickpeas curry) using 20 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Choley chana (chickpeas curry):
  1. Prepare 1 cup raw chick peas
  2. Prepare 4-5 black peppercorns
  3. Prepare 2 bay leaves
  4. Take 2 cinnamon sticks
  5. Take 3-4 cloves
  6. Take 2 tea bags
  7. Get to taste Salt
  8. Make ready As required Water as required
  9. Get for choley masala–
  10. Prepare 2 tbsp oil
  11. Get 1 tbsp ghee
  12. Take 2 small size onion chopped
  13. Take 4-5 garlic cloves
  14. Make ready 2 big size tomato chopped
  15. Take 2 tbsp choley masala
  16. Take 1 tbsp red chilli powder
  17. Make ready 1 tsp turmeric powder
  18. Make ready to taste Salt
  19. Prepare 1 tsp cumin seeds
  20. Make ready 1 tbsp kasoori methi

Chana Masala / Chickpea Curry is a very versatile gravy that goes very well with a lot of other dishes like dosas, pooris, rice, chappatis/rotis and naan. I get that by cooking Chole (chickpeas) with a combination of dry-mango powder (amchur) and dry pomegranate seeds powder (anardana Chana Masala on the other hand, is a tomato-onion rich gravy, with a iconic reddish-orange curry. I get that color by adding. Chana Masala is one of the most popular Indian curry dish made with white chickpeas in an onion-tomato base.

Steps to make Choley chana (chickpeas curry):
  1. Soak the chickpeas overnight in enough water to cover them…
  2. In the pressure cooker add the soaked chickpeas, tea bags, cinnamon, bay leaves, black peppercorns, salt & 4-5 cup water.. pressure cook on medium flame till you get 4-5 whistles.
  3. Now make a purry of onion, garlic & tomato.
  4. In a pan heat oil & ghee…once hot add bay leaves, cinnamon stick & cumin seeds & mix well.
  5. Now add onion & tomato puree in it..& mix well, cook it for 2-3 minutes..
  6. After it now add all dry spices & mix well..& cook it for 2 minutes.
  7. Add the chickpeas next & stir till all the chickpeas are coated with the spices around 2 minutes.
  8. Add water, cover the pan & let it simmer at medium flame for around 15 minutes..The gravy will thicken after 15 minutes so add water accordingly..now add kasoori methi & mix all together well..
  9. Serve with roti, paratha & rice.

Chickpeas or garbanzo beans curry - chana masala recipe. And this Chana Aloo Curry (Chana = chickpeas, Aloo = potatoes), is one such example. A great tasting curry from scratch will always call for a fair few spices. Beautiful fluffy chickpeas curry in onion tomato based spicy gravy is going to tickle your taste buds with spice and flavors. If you don't have chana masala or chole masala you can make it at home using below recipe or skip and use more garam masala.

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