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Prep Time: 20 Min
Cook time: 45 Min
Serves: 2 to 3
Ingredients needed for Bhature:
All Purpose flour/Maida- 2 cups
Sugar- 1 tsp
Rava/semolina -2 tsp
Salt to taste
Baking soda or powder- a pinch
Oil for deep frying
For the Cholle:
Chick peas/Channa -1 cup
Onion -1 cup
Tomato -1 1/2 cup
Green chilli minced-1 tbsp.
Ginger minced -1/2 tbsp.
Garlic minced -2 tbsp.
Ginger garlic paste-2 tsp
Cashew nuts -7-10
Tomato sauce or ketchup -1 tbsp.
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder -1/2 tsp
Channa masala powder – 1/2 tbsp.
Chaat masala -1/2 tbsp.
Salt to taste
For the seasoning:
Oil -4 tbsp.
Cinnamon 1 inch piece-3
Cloves-3-4
Cardamom -3
Cumin seeds -1 tsp
Kala jeera/black cumin seeds-3/4 tsp
Saunf/sombu -1/2 tsp
For garnishing:
Coriander leaves -finely chopped
Fried onions or fresh onions
Cream or butter
Method to prepare Cholle:
In a bowl mix together maida, rava, salt, sugar and baking powder.
1. Add warm water and make a slightly stiff dough just as you make for poori. Grease your hands with oil and knead the dough well. Cover it and keep it aside for 2 hours.
2. After 2 hours- Your bhatura dough is ready. Knead the dough again and make small lemon sized balls out of it.
3.Dust the ball with maida (all-purpose flour) and roll it out into thin pooris (it should not be too thin)
4.Heat oil in a kadai, (to check if the oil is hot enough, drop a small piece of dough into the oil, if it raises to the surface immediately, then the oil is ready for frying. Keep the heat in medium and gently slide the rolled out dough into the hot oil. After a few seconds, press it with a slotted ladle so that it will puff up nicely. Make sure that you have enough oil, otherwise the bhatura will not puff up.
5. Fry both sides until golden brown. Then remove it from the oil with a slotted ladle and serve hot with chole. Repeat the same process for the rest of the dough.
Cholle Recipe:
-Wash and soak chick peas overnight. Pressure cook for 5-6 whistles or until soft with just enough water to cover the chickpeas.
-Soak cashew nuts in hot water and grind it to a paste. Keep it aside.
-First keep all the things ready. It saves you a lot of time and also you will not forget anything.
Method:
1.Heat oil in a kadai, add all the ingredients mentioned under seasoning.
2.Then add the minced ginger and garlic and saute for a few seconds.
3.Then add finely chopped onions, minced green chillies and saute until the onions become golden brown. You need lot of patience for this. Add a little salt to speed up the process.
4.Once the onion becomes golden brown, add ginger garlic paste and saute until the raw flavour goes.
5.Then add finely chopped tomatoes. Cook until the tomatoes become mushy and oil separates.
6.Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, cashew nut paste, salt needed and cook for a few more minutes until the raw smell goes.
7.Now add cooked chickpeas along with the water. If required add more water according to the consistency required. Add tomato ketchup, Channa masala and cook simmered for 15 minutes.
8.Add Chaat masala and cook for another few minutes. Garnish with fried onions (optional), coriander leaves and fresh cream.
9. Serve Chole with hot bhatura. Prepare chole first and then bhatura.