You can cook Punjabi chole bhature using 26 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Punjabi chole bhature
Prepare of Flour.
You need of Curd.
You need of Sugar.
It’s of salt.
You need of Oil for frying.
You need of Soda Water for kneading.
Prepare of White Chickpeas.
It’s of big Onion.
It’s of big Tomato.
It’s of Ginger.
Prepare of Garlic.
You need of slit green chillies.
You need of Chana Masala.
It’s of Red Chilli Powder.
You need of Salt.
Prepare of Kasuri methi.
It’s of Coriander leaves.
Prepare of Lemon.
It’s of Oil.
It’s of ghee.
Prepare of cumin.
It’s of Cinnamon.
It’s of cloves.
It’s of bay leaf.
It’s of Tea bag or 1 tsp tea leaves.
You need of Lemon juice optional.
Punjabi chole bhature instructions
Take flour in a bowl and add sugar, salt, curd and tsp of oil. Mix it well and add soda water. Knead to a smooth dough. Cover with a damp cloth and keep aside for half an hour..
Soak the Chana overnight. Add it to a pressure cooker with salt, bay leaf, cinnamon, clove. Place some tea leaves in a small cloth and tie it properly. Add this in the cooker and pressure cook everything for 5-6 whistles..
Grind onion, ginger and garlic to a fine paste and keep aside. In the same way make puree of tomato and keep aside..
Now heat a wok and add cumin and the ground onion paste and slit green chillies. Fry it well until it turns golden brown and raw smell goes away. Add the tomato puree and the spice powders. Saute until oil oozes out..
Now open the pressure cooker and take out the whole spices and tea bag out of it. Add the boiled chickpeas to the masala with the boiled water and mix everything well. Let it cook for some time. After you reach the required consistency, sprinkle kasurimethi and coriander leaves. Squeeze lemon juice if you prefer. Heat a tsp of ghee and fry some ginger juliens and pour it on the Chole Masala. Done!.
Now take the bhatura dough and knead it for some time until smooth. Make small equal portions and roll into an oval shape using your fingers. Drop-in hot oil and fry until puffed up into a nice poori. Serve hot with Chole Masala.