Chole bhature is a popular north Indian dish made with chickpea curry and Indian flatbread bhature. In this recipe, I cooked chole in a pressure cooker to make the process easy and fasten. Also, I made instant aloo bhature made with 100% wheat flour. ย It is very easy to make and love all kinds of age groups. So with a few basic ingredients try out restaurant-style Punjabi chole masala with instant aloo wheat flour bhature.
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Ingredients
For chana masala
- 1 cup kabuli chana
- 2.5 cup water to soak chana
- 2 big size onions
- 3 medium size tomatoes
- 2 green chilli
- 1 inch ginger
- 2 garlic cloves
- 4 tbsp oil
- ยฝ tsp cumin seeds
- 3 green cardamom
- 1 inch cinnamon stick
- 3 cloves
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 green slits
- ยฝ tsp turmeric powder
- Salt to taste
- 1.5 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder
- 2 tsp coriander powder
- 2.5 cup water
- 1.5 tsp garam masala or chole masala
- 1 tsp kasuri methi
- ยฝ tsp amchur powder
For instant aloo bhature
- 3 boiled potatoes
- 1.5 cup wheat flour
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp water
Instructions
- Wash and soak 1 cup kabuli chana in hot water for 4-5 hours or you can soak it overnight.
- Now in a grinding jar, add onion, tomatoes, green chilli, ginger and garlic. Grind into a smooth paste.
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker. Then add cumin seeds, bay leaf, cloves, green cardamom and cinnamon stick and green chilli slits. Sautรฉ it.
- Add tomato-onion gravy and sautรฉ it till oil releases from the sides.
- Then add turmeric powder, salt, red chilli powder and cumin powder. Mix well
- Now add soaked chickpeas and mix with the gravy.
- Add 2.5 cup water and mix well. Cover the pressure cooker lid and cook chana on high flame for 1 whistle and 20 minutes on a medium flame for 6-7 whistles.
- Allow the pressure cooker to release its pressure naturally.
- Then add garam masala, kasuri methi and amchur powder. Mix well and cook for 2 minutes.
- Finally, garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.
For instant aloo bhature
- In a mixing bowl, grated boiled potatoes, wheat flour and salt. Mix well.
- Add little water and knead the semi-soft dough. Add oil and knead it again.
- Now take lemon size dough and roll it into round shape puri.
- Heat oil in a pan, add rolled bhature and fry on high flame till it is slightly golden brown from both sides.
- Serve hot bhature with chanan masala.
Notes
- soak chana into hot water to decrease its soaking time.
- Dry spices give a nice aromatic flavour to chole.
- Cook chole on a medium flame for 15-20 minutes.
- amchur powder gives a nice tangy taste to chole.
- Use very less water in bhature dough.
- Fry bhature on high flame.
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