Amritsari Chhole / Punjabi Style Chickpeas Gravy
Amritsari Chhole / Punjabi Style Chickpeas Gravy

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, amritsari chhole / punjabi style chickpeas gravy. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Give is absolutely delicious Amritsari Chole recipe which is made from fresh roasted and ground chole masala and has a thick dark delicious gravy. It goes perfect along with Kulche, Naan or Puri and serving it along with some lacha pyaz, green chillies and boondi raita. Amritsari Chole is Punjabi style chickpea curry.

Amritsari Chhole / Punjabi Style Chickpeas Gravy is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Amritsari Chhole / Punjabi Style Chickpeas Gravy is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have amritsari chhole / punjabi style chickpeas gravy using 35 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Amritsari Chhole / Punjabi Style Chickpeas Gravy:
  1. Get 1 and 1/2 cup chhole / chickpeas
  2. Make ready 4 cups water (to soak chickpeas overnight)
  3. Make ready Pinch soda powder - to add before soaking (optional)
  4. Make ready 1 tsp Salt
  5. Get Ingredients For Masala Potli (bag/bundle of spices)
  6. Prepare 1 piece fine markin cloth/cotton white cloth to make small bag
  7. Prepare 1/2 inch cinnamon stick
  8. Get 1 black cardamom
  9. Prepare 6-8 black pepper corns
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp tea (regular tea)
  11. Take 2 bay leaves
  12. Take 1-2 whole red chillies
  13. Take 1 piece mace
  14. Get Ingredients for gravy
  15. Make ready 3-4 tbsp ghee / generous amount
  16. Make ready 2 tbsp mustard oil
  17. Make ready 2 large onion (very finely chopped)
  18. Prepare 6 garlic peeled and crushed
  19. Get 2 inch ginger crushed
  20. Prepare 1 large tomato (finely chopped and reseeded)
  21. Make ready 2 tbsp coriander powder
  22. Take 1/2 tsp turmeric
  23. Get 4-5 cloves
  24. Take 6-8 black pepper
  25. Prepare 1 tbsp dried pomegranate seeds / Anardana (coarsely ground and this is must)
  26. Make ready 1 tsp ginger powder
  27. Get 1 tsp amchur/ dry mango powder (optional)
  28. Take 1 tbsp tamarind or 1 chunk of tamarind soaked in water
  29. Get 1 tbsp red chilli powder
  30. Make ready 2 green chillies chopped / slitted
  31. Prepare Pinch asafoetida powder
  32. Get 1 tsp cumin seeds
  33. Take 1 tsp caraway seeds / Shahjeera (optional)
  34. Get For garnishing
  35. Prepare as needed Onion rings, coriander leaves, ginger julienne

Punjabi Chole is an easy Indian food recipe that is prepared with kabuli chana or chickpeas, spices like coriander, cinnamon, black cardamom and pomegranate seeds and tomatoes. One of my favorite Punjabi dishes is Punjabi style Chole - a high protein classic recipe with heady flavors. Instant pot Amritsari Punjabi Chole recipe without onion, garlic, but same authentic flavors and deep color derived from four unique recipe enhancements. The authentic Amritsari Punjabi Chole recipe requires onion and garlic, however several people do not use onion or garlic in their meal preparations.

Steps to make Amritsari Chhole / Punjabi Style Chickpeas Gravy:
  1. Wash and soak chickpeas in 4-5 cup of water, add pinch of soda and 1 tsp of salt, for best results soak for 10-12 hrs, overnight.
  2. Take a small piece of cotton cloth (non dyed) or an white markin cloth, place the whole spices as mentioned above and 1 tsp of regular tea. Tie a knot tightly. Make spice bag.
  3. Add chickpeas with 3-4 cups of water and drop bag or spices and boot it in pressure cooker for 10 minutes (2 whistles) or boil it directly with heavy base and heavy lid utensil. To save time I use pressure cooker.
  4. Take a Kadhai or any heavy bottom pan with lid. Heat it for 1 minute, add 3 tbsp of ghee and 2 tbsp of mustard oil, after oil is hot and changed it's color then add cumin, asafoetida, cloves, while chilli, bay leaf and black pepper. Let spices splatter.
  5. Add chopped onion, ginger and green chillies and fry for 8 minutes till onion leaves oils add pinch or turmeric and salt, add crushed ginger garlic add 1 or 2 tbsp water in between.
  6. Fry on medium heat and finely chopped tomato, fry tomatoes for 3-4 minutes
  7. Add salt to taste, all the powder Masala for gravy as mentioned like coriander powder, ginger powder, red chilli powder, dry mango powder. Fry all spices till oil start separating.
  8. Now separate Chhole/chickpeas from water. don’t throw the water as it need to be used in gravy, squeeze the potli/spice bag by hand to get spices juice in dark brown water. (Tip even after Chhole is boiled keep them in water till the time we put it in fried spices to get good flavour and creaminess of chickpeas)
  9. Now add Chhole/chickpeas and mix them nicely and keep stirring for 5 minutes
  10. Add water now and cook on high flame for few minutes
  11. When you see bubbles / starts to boil add pomegranate seeds and soaked tamarind.
  12. Cover the lid but leave some space, don’t fully cover it. Let it boil for 2 minutes, crush some chickpeas with ladle or masher
  13. Now cover the lid and simmer on low heat for 5 minutes.
  14. Garnish it as per your choice, onion slices, green chillies and ginger julienne., Serve with rice or kulcha.

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