Chola poori

Chola poori is one of my favorite dish. Chola can be had like a chat or for batura, poori or even with plain rice or jeera rice. Let's see the ingredients.

Ingredients:

Chick peas  - 1 cup
( White)
Onion chopped - 1 big
Tomato - 2 nos
Ginger  - 1 bit
Garlic - 2 or 3
Jeera - 1 teaspoon
Oil - 2 or 3 tablespoons
Red chili powder - 1 /2 teaspoon
Turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Chola masala - 1 tablespoon
Bay leaf - 1 or 2
Tea bag - 1
Salt to taste

Ingredients for chola masala powder:

Clove - 2, cinnamon - 1small stick, cardamon - 2, coriander seeds- 1 teaspoon, cumin seeds - 1/2 teaspoon, sauf - 1 teaspoon, poppy seeds -1/2 teaspoon, pepper - 1/2 teaspoon, star anise - 1 or 2
Dry roast all above given ingredients and make a powder. You can store in an airtight container.

Method:
# soak Chick peas for 7or 8 hours.

# pressure cook chick peas for 6 or 7 whistles with tea bag or take a small muslin cloth put 1 teaspoon of tea powder and tie with a thread and put in the cooker with Chick peas.

# make tomato paste.

# heat a heavy bottom pan, pour 2 tablespoons of oil, once heated put bay leaf, jeera, chopped garlic ginger saute well, add onions fry well till the raw smell goes, add tomato paste, turmeric powder, chill powder, salt mix well and wait till the oil comes out.

# remove tea bag from pressure cooker, add boiled Chick peas to the gravy.

# once boiled well add chola masala which you have prepared. Let it boil for 3 min well if required add water according to the consistency you want.

# chop coriander leaves and garnish.

Ingredients to make poori:

Whole wheat flour - 1 cup

Oil required for frying

Salt to taste

Take whole wheat flour add salt, oil 2 teaspoon, sprinkle water and knead a stiff dough. Heat oil in a kadai, roll poori and fry in oil. Make sure you knead the dough just before frying so that it will not soak much oil and puff up well.

     Chola is a wonderful side dish. Please do try and give comments. Thank you 😃