Charishma’s Amazing Chole Delight!!
🕒 Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- 🕒 Prep Time: 30 minutes
- 🕒 Cook Time: 1 hour
🍽 Recipe Category: Lunch/Snacks
🔍 Keywords: Vegetable, Asian, Indian, Ramadan, Weeknight, Beginner Cook, Stove Top, < 4 Hours, Easy
📝 Description: This recipe, cherished through generations, holds a special place in my heart as it has been passed down from my mother’s mother’s mother. It’s a tradition in our family, especially on Ashtami, a festival close to my heart. Served with piping hot puris or bathure, it’s an absolute delight!
🥘 Ingredients:
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Onions | 8 |
| Ginger | 2 |
| Garlic | 2 1/2 |
| Green Chilies | 50 |
| Cinnamon | 50 |
| Cloves | 3 -4 |
| Cardamoms | 2 -3 |
| Cumin Seed | 2 -3 |
| Tomatoes | 7 -8 |
| Coriander Powder | 3 |
| Red Chili Powder | 1 |
| Water | 3 |
| Turmeric Powder | 4 |
| Black Pepper | 1/2 |
| Salt | 1 |
| Lemons | 1 1/2 |
| Cilantro | 1/4 |
| Coriander Leaves | 1 1/2 |
| Onions | 2 |
| Lemon | 1 |
📊 Nutritional Information (per serving):
- Calories: 230.2
- Fat Content: 5.8g
- Saturated Fat Content: 1g
- Cholesterol Content: 0mg
- Sodium Content: 609.3mg
- Carbohydrate Content: 43.7g
- Fiber Content: 8.4g
- Sugar Content: 16.1g
- Protein Content: 6.1g
🍽 Servings: 6
📝 Instructions:
- Heat oil in a wok.
- Add cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and cumin seeds. Stir fry for a minute.
- Add finely chopped onions, ginger, garlic, and green chilies. Stir fry on medium-high flame for 20-30 minutes, till reddish-brown in color.
- Add coriander powder, turmeric powder, and red chili powder. Mix well.
- Now add tomatoes followed by water and black pepper powder. Mix well.
- Continue to cook on medium-high flame for 10-15 minutes until the tomato pieces are no longer visible.
- In the meantime, boil the channa in water in a pressure cooker for 10 minutes on high flame. Drain and remove from heat. Keep aside.
- Add salt to the tomato mixture and mix well.
- Add the boiled channa and mix from down towards the top very nicely ensuring that the masala is all over the channa.
- Add the finely sliced onions and remove from heat. Mix very well.
- Garnish with 4 green chilies sliced lengthwise to make 8 pieces. Spread these pieces all over the top of the channa.
- Keep 2 halves of 1 lemon in the center, face down on the channa.
- Spread a layer of cilantro on top for that extra elegant and special look and added taste.
- Serve the channa immediately with this.
🍲 Accompaniment Instructions:
Put all the ingredients in a separate bowl so that only those who wish to eat this along with the channa may do so.
😍 I love this dish so much that I could walk right from USA to New Zealand to eat this.
Enjoy this cherished family recipe, passed down through the generations, and make it a tradition in your home too!