Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chole bhature. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chole Bhature also known as Chana Bhatura is one of the most popular Punjabi dish liked almost all over India. Chole stands for a spiced tangy chickpea curry and Bhatura is a soft and fluffy fried leavened bread. Chole bhature (Hindi: छोले भटूरे) is a food dish originating from northern India.
Chole bhature is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Chole bhature is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chole bhature using 30 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chole bhature:
- Make ready 400 gm chole white (chickpea)
- Get 2 glass water for boiling chole
- Take 3 tomato
- Prepare 2 onion
- Prepare 1-1/2 ginger
- Get 4-5 garlic
- Make ready 2-3 green chilly
- Get 4-5 Black pepper
- Take 2-3 tej patta
- Prepare 2 laung (cloves)
- Prepare 1 small pcs of daalchini
- Get 1-2 chote tukade taj ke
- Take 2-3 tea bag
- Make ready 1 serving spoon oil/ghee
- Prepare 1 tsp garam masala/chole masala
- Take 1-1/2 tsp red chilly powder
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1 tsp coriander powder
- Get 1 tsp dry mango powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp jeera
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon hing
- Get 2 serving spoon curd
- Take 20-25 cashew pieces
- Take 500 gm maida (all purpose flour)
- Make ready 1 serving spoon oil for moun
- Make ready 1 tsp kasuri methi
- Make ready 1 tsp fresh coriander
- Get 2 tsp salt
- Get 1 tsp jeera
- Get 1 eno sachet
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Instructions to make Chole bhature:
- First we have to soak chole in normal water for 6-7 hours.
- Now take a pressure cooker, add this soaked chole, 1 tsp salt and water into it. Also add 2 tea bags to it. Pressure cook for 4-5 whistles or till the chickpeas are completely cooked. Once boiled, check if the color of the chickpeas is turned to brown. If yes, you can remove the teabags.
- Meanwhile, cut all the vegetables into small pieces. Make sure to cut ginger in long pieces. We will use these to make gravy.
- Add onion, tomato,garlic, green chilly,black paper,1-2 tej patta, taj and laung (cloves) to a mixer grinder and grind the ingredients. Now add 1 serving spoon curd to it and grind the mixture again. Keep the mixture aside.
- Now in a frying pan add oil, jeera, hing and ginger. Saute it well on low flame.
- Now add tej patta and saute it well again.
- Now add the Onion tomato gravy to it and saute it well for 5-10 minutes. Then add red chilly powder, garam masala, coriander powder, dry mango powder, turmeric powder and saute it well till the color of the gravy changes or oil starts floating on the top. Once that happens, gravy is ready.
- Once the gravy is ready, add 1 serving spoon of curd (blended) and cashews. Saute the mixture well.
- Now add the boiled chickpeas. Add little water as well. Keep mixing it well
- Let the chickpeas cook either in the pan on medium flame or transfer the contents to pressure cooker and pressure cook it for 2 whistles more.
- I pressure cooked the chickpeas. Now the chole are ready to eat. Keep it aside
- You can transfer the curry to a hotcase to keep it warm. Garnish with fresh coriander
- For Bhature, take a bowl and add maida to it, add pinch of salt, oil, kasuri methi, coriander leaves or 1 eno sachet. Add enough water and mix it to make the dough. Make sure the dough is neither hard nor too soft. Keep it aside for 2 hours.
- After 2 hours, dough should be kneaded well. You can use the kitchen platform to do the same.
- Keep kneading the dough for 5-10 minutes. If required, use oil on your hands. It helps to fry bathure better
- Now if the dough is soft enough, take kadhai and add enough oil to it for frying.
- Make small balls out of the dough. You can make either a round shaped bathure or oval shape as per your wish
- I rolled the dough to make round shaped bathure.
- Once the oil is hot enough, place the rolled bathure into the pan.
- Make sure you add hot oil on top of the bathure or push the bathure to immerse it into oil completely. Once the bathura is blown from one side, you can flip it to make sure the other side is fried properly as well.
- Once fried properly, you can remove the bathura from oil. Place it on a tissue so that extra oil is soaked by the tissue.
- Bathure is ready to serve and eat.
- Ready to serve chole bathure with mix pickle onion & chilly
Chole Bhature is a dish that is a hit at any party. My version of chole is however, ready in minutes. I enjoy eating hot chole with tikkis, bhaturas, kulcha or simply topped on a slice of bread. 'Chole Bhature' is a hindi phrase, and in that 'Chole' aka 'Chana' is a spicy and tangy chickpea curry. The fried flatbreads are called bhature/bhatura. I am so much in love with this fried food Chole Bhature.
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