Recipes
Chole Bhature- so worth the effort
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Ingredients
For the Bhature
- 1.5 cups maida or all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup sooji/rava/fine semolina or ½ rice flour
- ½ tbsp oil or ghee
- ½ tbsp fine sugar
- ½ tsp salt or as required
- ¼ or ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ cup yogurt/dahi
- water for kneading as required
- Oil for deep frying
For the Chole
- 1 cup dried small chickpeas or regular chickpeas/chole/safed chana soak the chickpeas/chole in enough water overnight or for 7-8 hours
- 1 green chilli slit
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- ¼ tsp red chilli powder
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp chole masala
- 1 1/2 tsp of garam masala
- ½ or 1 tsp dry mango powder
- pinch aof asafoetida/hing
- black salt or rock salt as required
- 2 cups water to be added later
- leaves Corianderfor garnish
- slices Serve with onionand lemon wedges.
For the paste
- Make a fine paste of these ingredients
- 1 medium size onion chopped
- 2 medium size tomatoes chopped
- ½ inch Ginger chopped
- 3-4 garlic cloves chopped
- 1 green chili chopped
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Instructions
For the Bhature
- Sieve the maida/all purpose flour with baking soda and salt.
- Add the sooji and sugar and mix well.
- Add the yogurt and mix again.
- Add very little water, just about ½ tbsp and begin to knead by adding water as required to make a smooth and soft dough.
- Cover the dough with a wet napkin and keep aside for 2 hours.
- Heat oil in a kadai or pan for deep frying.
- Make small to medium sized balls from the dough. Keep the balls covered with the wet kitchen napkin.
- Using the rolling pin, roll out bhature that's thicker than the average chapathi.
- When the oil is hot enough, place the rolled bhature gently into the oil.
- Help the puffing bhature by applying light pressure on it with a slotted spoon. Gently flip it.
- When the bhature is light golden, remove and drain on kitchen paper towels.
For the Chole
- Drain the water from the chole and cook with water+salt in a pressure cooker or a pot.
- Strain the chole and keep aside
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Add the ground paste and saute till the oil starts to leaves the sides of the paste. Add garam masala. Saute gently.
- Add the dry spice powders - turmeric, red chili powder, coriander and dry mango powder.
- Stir and saute for a minute.
- Add the cooked chole and stir.
- Pour water and add salt and stir.
- Simmer on a low or medium flame for 12-15 minutes, till the curry thickens (stir occasionally)
- Add slit green chilies and chole masala.
- Stir and simmer for a minute or two.
- Garnish chole with coriander leaves.
- Serve chole with onion slices, lemon wedges along with bhature.