Tuesday, February 24, 2009

How about some Chatpate Chole - Chick Peas Curry

Hey,

I am back with some quick recipe for Chatpate chole or Chick Peas curry . I know sometimes its pain to cut dice onions and tomatoes and takes 30 mins just to cook one curry . So here is a simple recipe I follow and believe me you will love it too how simple it has become to cook Chole :).


Simple and Fast Recipe:

Ingredients:
1 Can of Chik Peas,
Red Chilli,
Turmeric powder,
Everest Chole Masala,
lemon,
Hunts Tomato paste,
onion,
tomato,
Kasturi Methi,
garlic paste,
Olive Oil/Vegetable Oil



Curry Paste:

  • Take 1/3 onion ( again I prefer red onion it brings nice taste to the curry paste) and 1/2 fresh tomato . Cut them in to big chunks .
  • Take a microwave bowl , add cut onions, tomato, garlic paste , add some water ( Water should enough to boil it , I normally add so much that it try to cover my onion and tomato some what) and put it in microwave for 4 mins.
  • Add the boiled onions and tomatoes remove the water from the bowl before you add it to the grinder and add 1 table spoon of hunt tomato paste. You know I have Magic bullet it works great on these kind of grinding , small to handle and not too much effort to clean.
  • Hunt tomato paste is kind of thick so is good and gives good color too. if you dont have paste instead of 1/2 tomato take 1.5 red tomatoes.
Cooking Chole:

  • To Cook Healthy I have started using Olive oil instead of our vegetable oil.

  • So Take 1 spoon (2 teaspof olive oil in a pan , once pan come to heat add the grinded paste in to it. You will see sauce boiling as soon as u add it. Add some Milk to it , if you add water then it will start losen up some water when the curry is ready , you dont want that.........

  • Open 1 can of Chole ( enough for 2-3 people) clean it under water and then add to curry paste.

  • Add 1/2 teaspoon of red chilli, turmeric powder, 1 Tablespoon of Chole masala, 2 teaspoon of lemon,1/2 tablesppon of kasturi methi . You can add all the spices as per your taste if you want spicy add more red cilli powder and chole masala. Do not add too much turmeric powder it does not have any taste its just for some color.

  • Add Kasturi methi it gives a nice smell and flavor to chole curry. You can also add a pinch of "Hing" powder to it so that u dont have gas later on in your stomach ;).

  • Add salt , keep it to boil for some time.
Another Useful tip : If you want darker color to Chole you can try adding Tamarind paste to it instead of lemon juice.

if you have Anardana powder you can even add that to Chole.

Hope you enjoy this Chatpate chole with nice puri or paratha or Naan or bhatura :).

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