Amritsari chhole

Name: Amritsari chhole
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 bowl chole; 4 bowl water; 1/4 tsp salt; 1 tea bag; 1 onion; 2 tomatoes; 1 " piece ginger; 4-6 pods garlic; To taste salt; 1/2 tsp red chilli powder; 1/4 tsp turmeric powder; 2 piece cinnamon; 1 big cardamom; 8-10 black pepper seeds; 1 tsp cumin seeds; 1 star fruit; 2 red dried whole red chilli; 1 tsp fen kasuri methi; Water as required; 2 tb sp cooking oil

Aruna Thapar @Arunathapar27

New Delhi

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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. This is a popular and most common staple dish which gets served in Punjab, Delhi and surroundings, Walk into any dhaba on highway, you will find this delicious Amritsari Chole served along with freshly made Kulcha or Naan.

Aruna Thapar @Arunathapar27

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Ingredients

40 minutes

2 servings

For boiling chole
1 bowlchole
4 bowlwater
1/4 tspsalt
1tea bag
For making masala:
1onion
2tomatoes
1" piece ginger
4-6 podsgarlic
To tastesalt
1/2 tspred chilli powder
1/4 tspturmeric powder
Dry masala for roasting :
4-6 cloves
2 piececinnamon
1big cardamom
8-10black pepper seeds
1 tspcumin seeds
1star fruit
2red dried whole red chilli
1 tspfen kasuri methi
Others
Water as required
2 tbsp cooking oil

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Steps

40 minutes

1

Soak chickpea overnight and in the morning add water, salt and 1 tea bag and boil in a pressure cooker till 10 minutes after first whistle.
2

Peel, Wash and chop onions, tomato, ginger and garlic. Grind all in the mixer to a fine paste. Heat oil in a wok. Add cumin seeds and when cumin seeds splutter put this paste and saute on low flame till it start leaving pan. Add salt, turmeric and chilli and saute for 1 minute. Add chickpea in this mixture and mix well and cook for 5 minutes on low flame.
3

Heat a griddle. Dry roast all dry masala. Then make a coarse powder with the help of rolling pin. It takes 3-4 minutes. Just tlroll rolling pin on it. This masala is added to give it enhanced taste of Amritsari.
4

Add this mixture in wok in which Chana is simmering.
5

Cook it on low flame till it turn thick and masala is coated on chana.
6

Serve hot with rice, puri or chapati.