Chole Bhature

Chole Bhature

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Today's recipe is a popular breakfast recipe from Punjab- Chole/chickpeas curry and bhature. Bhature is a deep fried and puffed up bread made of white flour. If you like a spicy and warm breakfast nothing is more comforting than this combo.

Ingredients
For the Chole masala
Chickpeas/garbanzo beans- 1 cup
Dried mango- 2 to 3 pieces
Dried Amla/gooseberry/nellikka-2 -3 pieces(optional)
Tea bag- 1
Bay Leaf- 1
Salt to taste

For the gravy
Onion- 2 medium
Tomato puree- 3/4 cup
Ginger- 1 inch thick
Green chilly-2
Chilly powder- 1 tsp
Amchur powder- 1/3 tsp
Anardhana/pomegranate seeds powdered- 1/3 tsp
Coriander powder- 1 tsp
Garam masala- 1/2 tsp
Ginger powder- 1/3 tsp
Roasted cumin powder- 1/2 tsp
Nutmeg- a pinch

Whole garam masala 
Green cardomon-2
Cinnamon- 1 inch stick
Clove- 2-3
Black Cardamon- 2

Soak chickpeas overnight for about 8-9 hours. In a cheese cloth place tea bag,bay leaf, dry mango pieces and dry amla pieces and tie it into a pouch and add this along with chickpeas and cook in a pressure cooker. Add water to the same level as the chickpeas and cook till 3-4 whistles. Once cool discard the pouch that you put inside.

Make a paste of onion, ginger and green chilly and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan ( if you like add half of ghee and half of oil). Add all the whole spices cardamon, clove, cinnamon and lightly fry them.
Add the onion mixture and saute for about 2 minutes and then add tomato puree. Cook this for another three minutes till oil separates from the mixture.
Add the dry ingredients- coriander powder, chilly powder, amchur powder,anardhana powder, ginger powder,nutmeg powder and cumin and mix well. Add the cooked chick peas along with the excess water in the pressure cooker. Cover and cook for another four to five minutes or till the gravy thickens. Garnish with coriander leaves

Ingredients for bhature
All purpose flour- 2 cups
Yogurt- 3/4 cup
Baking powder- 1/2 tsp
Sugar- 1 tsp
salt to taste
Poppy seeds- 2 tsp
Oil for frying

Shift flour by mixing in baking powder,a pinch of baking soda and salt.
Add to this sugar, poppy seeds and yogurt and mix well. Using your hands knead the dough well and add little by little water till you have a soft and smooth dough.
Grease the top of the dough with little oil and cover it with a damp cloth. Let it rest for about half an hour and make small balls out of the dough. Cover and let it again rest for another ten minutes.
Heat one and one half cup of oil in a pan. Take each ball and flatten with a rolling pin.
Slide it carefully into the oil. When it puffs up,gently turn to the other side and fry. When both sides are golden brown take out from oil and drain in paper towels
Serve with chole,tamarind dates chutney and finely chopped onions.


Try this..
Hope you will all enjoy..