Chole Bhature / Chickpeas Gravy With Poori

Chole masala

Ingredients

White chickpeas (boiled) – 300gms

Tomatoes – 2 nos

Onions – 2 nos

Ginger & garlic paste – 1 tbspn

Red chilly powder – ½ tspn

Cumin seeds – 1 tspn

Bay leaf – 1

Chaat masala – ½ tbspn

Cardamom – 3 nos

Cloves – 2 nos

Cashew nuts – 7

Turmeric powder – ¼ tspn

Fresh cream – 1 tbspn

Asafoetida – ½ tspn

Chana masala powder – ½ tspn (optional)

Oil – 1 tblspn

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Water as required

Salt to taste

Method

♥ In a vessel, boil the tomatoes, cashew nuts and chopped onions in water and grind them into semi-thick paste.

♥ Heat oil in a wok.

♥ Add in cumin seeds, bay leaf, cardamom, cloves.

♥ Then add chopped onions and fry them till it’s translucent.

♥ Add ginger/garlic paste and sauté until raw smell disappears.

♥ Now add the semi-thick paste (tomatoes, cashew nuts and onions) and sauté for few mins.

♥ Add in the boiled chickpeas and mix well.

♥ Then add turmeric powder, red chilly powder, chana masala powder and asafoetida and sauté gently.

♥ Sprinkle in little water to get a gravy consistency and add salt as required and cook for few mins.

♥ Finally add fresh cream and coriander leaves and serve hot with bhature.

Bhature: 

Ingredients

All purpose flour / maida – 2 cups

Sugar – 1 tspn

Semolina / rava – 2 tspn

Baking soda – ¼ tspn

Yoghurt / curd – ½ cup

Oil for deep frying

Salt to taste

Water as required

Method

♥ Take maida in a large bowl.

♥ Add semolina, sugar, salt, baking soda to it and mix well.

♥ Now add yoghurt, little water and knead it into smooth dough.

♥ Cover it with a damp cloth and keep it aside to rest for 3 to 4 hrs.

♥ Divide the dough into equal sized balls

♥ Roll them gently to flatten out using rolling pin.

♥ Now heat oil in deep frying wok.

♥ Gently slide the rolled out dough and deep fry them one by one until puff up nicely like pooris.

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Vegetable Noodles

Ingredients

Top ramen noodles – 1 packet

Green peas (boiled) – ¼ cup

Finely chopped onions – ¼ cup

Finely chopped French beans – ¼ cup

Finely chopped carrots – ¼ cup

Finely chopped capsicum – ¼ cup

Chopped spring onions – ¼ cup

Ginger & garlic paste – 1 tspn

Soya sauce – 1 tspn

Red chilly powder – ½ tspn

Garam masala – ¼ tspn

Oil – 1 tblspn

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Water as required

Salt to taste

Method

♥ Boil top ramen instant noodles in water for 2 mins without masala powder given with the pack.

♥ Drain the water and transfer the noodles to a bowl.

♥ Heat oil in frying pan.

♥ Add red chilly powder, garam masala powder, top ramen masala powder (given with noodles) to it and sprinkle two tspn water to it immediately or else the masala will turn black and burnt

♥ Now add chopped onions and sauté it.

♥ Then add the ginger & garlic paste and sauté it for few mins until raw smell disappears.

♥ Now add the chopped carrots, chopped French beans and sauté few more mins.

♥ Then add chopped capsicum, boiled green peas, chopped spring onions and sauté it.

♥ Now add soya sauce, salt and mix well.

♥ Cover it with a lid and cook until the vegetables are half cooked.

♥ Finally add the boiled noodles and sauté until the vegetables and masalas coat well with noodles.

♥ Garnish the noodles with coriander leaves and serve it with lemon slice.

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Vegetable Momos

Ingredients

Maida / all purpose flour – 2 cups

Oil – 1 tspn

Salt as required

For Stuffing

Finely chopped cabbage – ½ cup

Finely chopped onions – ½ cup

Finely chopped carrots – ½ cup

Chopped spring onions – ¼ cup

Finely chopped garlic – 3 nos

Soya sauce – 1 tspn

Pepper powder – 1 tspn

Water – ½ cup

Salt to taste

Method

♥ Take maida / all purpose flour in a bowl.

♥ Add oil, salt and sprinkle some water to it.

♥ knead it to soft dough and keep it aside.

♥ Heat a tbspn of oil in a pan.

♥ Then add the finely chopped garlic and sauté it.

♥ Now add the finely chopped cabbage, onions, carrots and spring onions.

♥ Throw in ½ tspn salt, 1 tspn pepper powder and 1 tspn soya sauce and sauté it well until the vegetables are half cooked.

♥ Now take the dough and divide it into small equal balls.

♥ Roll them into little circles and stuff them with the above prepared vegetables mixture to make momos.

♥ Fold the momos in desired shapes.

♥ Now take a steam cooker and pour some water in and place the momos in steaming pan and place it inside the cooker and cover it.

♥ Steam cook the momos for 5 mins.

♥ Serve the momos with tomato ketchup.

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