Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, pindi chole. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pindi Chole is a classic dish from the Punjabi repertoire, which is flavoured with a large assortment of spice powders and other ingredients like ginger, garlic, tomatoes and onions, which lend an irresistible flavour and aroma to it. While it is common in most parts of the country to flavour chole with garam masala and chole masala, what makes the Pindi Chole really different from the rest is. Pindi chole recipe With step by step photos - pindi chana is one of the easiest and tasty vegan chana recipe to make.
Pindi Chole is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Pindi Chole is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pindi chole using 21 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pindi Chole:
- Prepare 1 cup white Chickpeas (Kabuli chana), soaked overnight
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Take 1 " cinnamon stick
- Make ready 2-3 green cardamoms
- Get 4-5 cloves
- Take 1-2 tea bags
- Make ready 2-3 tbsp. oil
- Get 1 tsp. carom seeds (ajwain)
- Take 2 green chilies, slit
- Make ready 1 tsp. ginger, chopped
- Take 1 tsp. garlic, chopped
- Make ready 1/4 tsp. asafoetida (opt)
- Take to taste salt
- Take 12 tsp. turmeric powder
- Prepare 1/4 cup tamarind water
- Take 1 tsp. red chili powder
- Get 1 tsp. coriander leaves, chopped
- Take 1 tsp. coriander powder
- Prepare 1 tsp. cumin powder
- Make ready 1 tsp. amchur powder (dry mango powder)
- Take 1 tsp. anardana powder (pomegranate powder)
Pindi chole recipe (pindi chana)-a dry version of making white chickpeas/kabuli chana. This is healthy, delicious and protein packed dish. This is healthy, delicious and protein packed dish. As the name says, this chana recipe is from Rawalpindi, Punjab (a region of Pakistan).
Instructions to make Pindi Chole:
- Pressure cook the soaked chana in 2 cups water, tea bags, salt, bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamoms and cloves. (You can also use a Bouquet Garni / Spice Potli instead) for 5-6 whistles. Open the lid when it cools down. Discard the whole spices and the tea bags.
- Heat oil in a pan and temper with carom seeds, asafoetida, green chilies, ginger and garlic. Saute for a few seconds.
- Add all the dry spices and saute for a few seconds.
- Next add the boiled chickpeas & simmer till it turns slightly thick.
- Add the tamarind water and…..
- ….. mash with a potato masher. When you get the desired consistency, - switch off the flame.
- Garnish with coriander & serve with naan, kulcha, tandoori roti, poori, - bhatura, paratha, chapati, plain rice or jeera rice.
Then Donna located this recipe by Chef Kunal Kapur for Pindi Chole and posted it on the group. When I saw the video on YouTube I was fascinated by the recipe and made it this past weekend! Do try it and you will get authentic Pindi Chole. You can combine this chickpea dish with rice to make Chole Biryani. For more recipes related to Pindi Chole checkout Kale Chholay, Palak Chole, Jain Punjabi Chole, Chana Pindi.
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