Recipe of Homemade Mother’s Amritsari Chole
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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Mother’s Amritsari Chole is 4 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.
Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Mother’s Amritsari Chole estimated approx 1 hour.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook Mother’s Amritsari Chole using 24 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you cook that.
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Spicy Tangy Mix of Kabuli Chana (Chickepeas)
Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make Mother’s Amritsari Chole:
- To boil the chole (chickpeas)
- 2 cups kabuli chana (chickpeas) soaked in room temperature water for more than 8 hours (after being soaked they will double in size)
- 1 tea bag (for the colour)
- 1 tbsp black pepper powder (for the fragrance)
- salt to taste
- For the masala / main dish
- 3 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp hing
- 2 tbsp cumin seeds
- 4-5 cloves garlic (beaten into a paste)
- 2 inch ginger (beaten into a paste)
- 1-2 cinnamon stick
- 3-4 cloves
- 3-4 bay leaves
- 2 cups diced onions
- 2 cups pureed tomatoes
- 1 tbsp red chilli powder
- 3 tbsp chole masala
- 1 tbsp garam masala
- salt to taste
- Garnish
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 inch ginger cut into thin slices (fried)
- 1 tsp kasoori methi
Steps to make Mother’s Amritsari Chole
- Soak chickpeas in lightly salted water (at-least 8 hours) in almost double the quantity of water, the chickpeas will bloat up to double their size by the end
- Approximately one hour before you start to pressure cook the chickpeas, add one tsp oil to the water (this is to ensure the chickpeas become a little extra soft)
- Strain the soaked water and add the chickpeas to a pressure cooker
- Sprinkle 1 tbsp black pepper powder and add 2 tea bags
- Fill the cooker with enough water to submerge the chickpeas
- Add a tsp of salt and mix well
- Close the lid and pressure cook for about 4-5 whistles on medium flame (let the first whistle blow on full flame)
- Heat oil in a wok / kadhai
- Add one tsp hing followed by cumin seeds
- Wait for 30 seconds and add the garlic paste
- As soon as garlic starts to become off-white add the ginger and mix well
- Add the minced green chillies
- Swirl around for another 30 seconds and the add the cinnamon sticks (whole), cloves and bay leaves
- Once the dish gets fragrant, add the onions and keep stirring
- Ensure the onions are cooked till they are brown, do not be lazy at this step because this is the main flavour of the dish
- Once the onions are brown you can add all the spices (red chilli powder, chole masala, garam masala) and mix well for 1 minute
- Add the pureed tomatoes followed by some salt so that the tomatoes get cooked well
- Fry the tomatoes until you see floating oil, again, skipping this step means compromising the flavour
- From the pressure cooked chickpeas, strain (save 1.5 cups of water) and add the chickpeas to the curry at this point, they must be tender (easily squash-able)
- From the saved water, add a total of 1.5 cups to the dish, little at a time, checking for correct consistency
- Mother's secret step - take a Pav bhaji masher or a strong karcha (spoon) and lightly mash around in the wok, be very careful as not to mash more than 10% of the total quantity
- Stir the dish well and cook it on low flame covered for about 5 minutes (keep on swirling in between to avoid being stuck / burnt from the bottom)
- Squeeze half a lemon, add kasoori methi and stir
- Turn off the stove and cover the wok
- Meanwhile, in a separate frying pan, take 1 tbsp oil and heat
- Fry the sliced ginger in that pan and sprinkle some salt on it
- Garnish the wok of chole with fried ginger slices and chopped cilantro
- The dish will taste better if you leave it aside and let the spices marinate inside the chole for 4-5 hours
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