Chhole Bhature
Ingredient
Food ration :
3-4 servings
Cooking time :
1 hour
Cooking instructions
* Step 1
Soak Kabuli chana overnigh
Using a clean white cloth, make a potli of tea leaves, variyali, elaicho, taj and cloves.
* Step 2
Add salt and the potli to soaked chhole and cook in pressure cooker to 5-6 whistles or until the chhole are boiled properly.
* Step 3
Meanwhile, chop the onions. Make a paste of chilli, ginger and garlic,. Also crush the tomatoes.
* Step 4
In a kadhaai, take ghee and oil. Add in jira, khada masalas and ajwain
* Step 5
Add in the chopped onions and cook well. When onions are done add in chilli-ginger-garlic paste.
* Step 6
After 1 minute add in the crushed tomato puree. Add salt and haldi. Cover and cook well until the fat separates.
* Step 7
Open cooker remove the potli and take 4tbsp of boiled chhole and mash well(to give thickness to the gravy). Ready the dry masalas.
* Step 8
When tomatoes are well cooked add in the masalas. After 2 minutes add in the boiled chhole, mashed chhole and some of the chhole-boiled water.
* Step 9
Mix and cook well for 8-10 minutes. Add in slit green chillies, ginger juellienes and kashmiri chilli powder. Add chhole-boiled water if required and set the desired consistency.
* Step 10
Lastly, add 1tbsp ghee and coriander.
* Step 11
For Bhature:
Mix rava, curd and little water and make a paste. Rest this paste for 15 minutes.
* Step 12
For Dough:
Mix paste, salt into the maida. Add milk and water as required and knead a soft dough.
Smoothen it with 1/2 tsp oil. Note not to put more oil, else Bhature will get oily.
* Step 13
Rest this dough for at least 2 hours. Now make 8-9 portions of the dough. Heat oil for deep fry. Roll out a big bhature.
* Step 14
Deep fry bhature carefully. We like to fry bhature a bit reddish.
* Step 15
Similarly, make bhatures and serve hot Chhole bhature with onions lachha, lemon wedge, green chilli and pickles.
Enjoy with family and friends.
Happy Cooking 😊
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