Ingredients for chole:
Black chickpeas – 1 and ½ cups
Chopped onion – ½ cup
Ginger-garlic paste – 2 tsp
Salt
Tomato puree – ½ cup
Turmaric powder – 1 tsp
Red chilli powder –1 tsp
Chana masala – 1 tbsp
Garammasala powder – 1 tsp
Chopped coriander leaves – ½ cup
Chopped green chilli – 2 tbsp
Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Lemon juice – 1 tsp
Oil – 2 tbsp
Recipe for Chole:
Soak
the chickpeas for 4-5 hours, then boil it with some water.
After
boiling strain the chickpeas from water and keep the water aside. We will use
that water for gravy.
Heat
oil in a pan and put cumin seeds.
When
you start getting the aroma of cumin, add chopped onion and fry it.
After
that add ginger-garlic paste and fry it.
Add
tomato puree, turmeric and red chilli powder and stir it.
Add
boiled chickpeas and salt.
Mix
it and add chana masala powder, coriander leaves and chopped green chilli.
Stir
it gently and add the water (used for boiling chana) that you kept aside.
Let
it boil for 5 minutes and sprinkle few drops of lemon juice.
Ingredients for Bature
Flour – 2 cups
Rawa (semolina) – 1/4 cup
Yogurt – 1cup
Baking soda – 1/4tsp
Salt
Oil – 2 tbsp
Oil – for deep frying
Recipe for Bature:
Take
a large mixing bowl and mix all dry ingredients. Now add 2 tbsp oil and mix it.
Now add yogurt and knead it and make a dough. I did not use any water to make
the dough. Cover the dough with a wet kitchen towel and keep aside for 45 minutes
or allow to raise it to double.
Form
this quantity of dough you can make 10 bature. So from this dough make 10
balls.
Heat
oil in a pan for deep frying the bature. On other hand roll out the ball and
make some puri, try to give it oval shape, for rolling you can use dry flour or
oil, I used oil. Now fry it.
Serve
with hot bature with chana, pickle and salad.