Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, amritsari chhole / punjabi style chickpeas gravy. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Traditional Amritsari Chole is an authentic recipe which gives the Punjabi chole a rich dark colour and taste delicious from the freshly made amritsari chole masala. When you travel to Amritsar, regions around Punjab, Delhi and surroundings, this is a popular and most common staple which gets served. Walk into any dhaba on highway, you will find this delicious Amritsari Chole served along.
Amritsari Chhole / Punjabi Style Chickpeas Gravy is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Amritsari Chhole / Punjabi Style Chickpeas Gravy is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have amritsari chhole / punjabi style chickpeas gravy using 35 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Amritsari Chhole / Punjabi Style Chickpeas Gravy:
- Prepare 1 and 1/2 cup chhole / chickpeas
- Take 4 cups water (to soak chickpeas overnight)
- Take Pinch soda powder - to add before soaking (optional)
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt
- Take Ingredients For Masala Potli (bag/bundle of spices)
- Make ready 1 piece fine markin cloth/cotton white cloth to make small bag
- Get 1/2 inch cinnamon stick
- Take 1 black cardamom
- Prepare 6-8 black pepper corns
- Take 1 tbsp tea (regular tea)
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 1-2 whole red chillies
- Take 1 piece mace
- Make ready Ingredients for gravy
- Make ready 3-4 tbsp ghee / generous amount
- Take 2 tbsp mustard oil
- Take 2 large onion (very finely chopped)
- Make ready 6 garlic peeled and crushed
- Take 2 inch ginger crushed
- Take 1 large tomato (finely chopped and reseeded)
- Prepare 2 tbsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric
- Prepare 4-5 cloves
- Get 6-8 black pepper
- Prepare 1 tbsp dried pomegranate seeds / Anardana (coarsely ground and this is must)
- Prepare 1 tsp ginger powder
- Prepare 1 tsp amchur/ dry mango powder (optional)
- Prepare 1 tbsp tamarind or 1 chunk of tamarind soaked in water
- Take 1 tbsp red chilli powder
- Prepare 2 green chillies chopped / slitted
- Make ready Pinch asafoetida powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Make ready 1 tsp caraway seeds / Shahjeera (optional)
- Take For garnishing
- Get as needed Onion rings, coriander leaves, ginger julienne
By this time, chana will absorb many flavors and becomes so delicious. While in the punjabi chole bhature recipe, onion-tomato paste is sauteed (bhuno technique) and then mixed with boiled chickpeas. A very unique and delicate balance of spices with four recipe enhancements to create a perfect aroma to entice everybody and please your palate. Amritsari Chole Recipe is the simple yet very tasty Punjabi Style Chole or Chickpea recipe made with Chole, Onion, Tomato and Spices.
Steps to make Amritsari Chhole / Punjabi Style Chickpeas Gravy:
- Wash and soak chickpeas in 4-5 cup of water, add pinch of soda and 1 tsp of salt, for best results soak for 10-12 hrs, overnight.
- Take a small piece of cotton cloth (non dyed) or an white markin cloth, place the whole spices as mentioned above and 1 tsp of regular tea. Tie a knot tightly. Make spice bag.
- Add chickpeas with 3-4 cups of water and drop bag or spices and boot it in pressure cooker for 10 minutes (2 whistles) or boil it directly with heavy base and heavy lid utensil. To save time I use pressure cooker.
- Take a Kadhai or any heavy bottom pan with lid. Heat it for 1 minute, add 3 tbsp of ghee and 2 tbsp of mustard oil, after oil is hot and changed it's color then add cumin, asafoetida, cloves, while chilli, bay leaf and black pepper. Let spices splatter.
- Add chopped onion, ginger and green chillies and fry for 8 minutes till onion leaves oils add pinch or turmeric and salt, add crushed ginger garlic add 1 or 2 tbsp water in between.
- Fry on medium heat and finely chopped tomato, fry tomatoes for 3-4 minutes
- Add salt to taste, all the powder Masala for gravy as mentioned like coriander powder, ginger powder, red chilli powder, dry mango powder. Fry all spices till oil start separating.
- Now separate Chhole/chickpeas from water. don’t throw the water as it need to be used in gravy, squeeze the potli/spice bag by hand to get spices juice in dark brown water. (Tip even after Chhole is boiled keep them in water till the time we put it in fried spices to get good flavour and creaminess of chickpeas)
- Now add Chhole/chickpeas and mix them nicely and keep stirring for 5 minutes
- Add water now and cook on high flame for few minutes
- When you see bubbles / starts to boil add pomegranate seeds and soaked tamarind.
- Cover the lid but leave some space, don’t fully cover it. Let it boil for 2 minutes, crush some chickpeas with ladle or masher
- Now cover the lid and simmer on low heat for 5 minutes.
- Garnish it as per your choice, onion slices, green chillies and ginger julienne., Serve with rice or kulcha.
They are the same chole which we get in the Punjabi joints on the streets of Delhi. This Chole recipe tastes great with naan and bhatura, you can even serve them with potato tikkis or patties. 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. Chana masala is a naturally vegan recipe with added health benefits of the chickpeas which are packed full of protein, minerals and fiber. Punjabi Chole is a spicy curry from the northern region of India.
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