Chole

Ingredients:

1. 2 onions
2. 1 tblsp garam masala powder
3. 2 tblsp red chillipowder
4. 1/2 tsp. soda bi-carbonate
5. 1 tblsp dry mango powder (amchur)
6. 2 tblsp coerianander-
7. cumin powder
8. 1 cupkabuli chana
9. 3 tblsp ghee
10. 2 tomatoes
11. 1/2 tsp pepper powder
12. salt (namak) to taste
13. 2 potatoes

for garnish

1. 2 tomatoes
2. 1″ ginger
3. 2 tblsp dhania patta chopped
4. 1 green chilli.

Method:

• Soak the chana for at least six hours and then drain.
• Cut the onions.
• Chop the potatoes into quarters.
• Wash and quarter two tomatoes and make slices of the remaining.
• Peel and make juliennes of the ginger.
• Wash and slit the green chillies.
• Mix in water and 1/2 tsp of soda bi-carbonate to the chana and stir fry in a pressure cooker till done.
• Take care the chanas do not get mashed.
• Heat up the ghee in a vessel and fry the potatoes until soft. drain.
• In the same ghee, mix in the onions and stir fry till pink.
• Mix in the dhania-jeera powder and red chilli powder and fry again.
• Mix in the boiled chanas and salt.
• After five minutes, mix in the garam masala powder, amchur powder and black pepper powder and stir fry for two minutes.
• Mix in the potatoes and tomatoes and stir fry for another two minutes.
• decorate with cut coriander leaves, slit green chillies, slices of tomatoes and ginger juliennes.