Chole chawal👩🏻‍🍳

 

Chole chawal!

So if you love rajma chawal, you might as well as love chole chawal - Punjabi dhaba style!

Besides my own Bengali culture, I absolutely adore Punjabi culture, for their supper yummy dishes, and ofcourse pretty Punjabi kudi friends and the lovely Punjabi language.

So here's your tasty pindi chole recipe - 

1. Soak chole in water overnight 

2. Boil the chole in water, add 1 tbp turmeric, salt, whole garam spices ( 3 green cardamom, 1 cinnamon, 2 bay leaf, 3 cloves, whole black pepper) and optional - tea bag ( for the brownish hue) in a cooker

3. Wait till 5-6 whistles of pressure cooker 

4. In a kadai, put mustard oil, jeera, 2 chopped onions and 2 chopped tomatoes, ginger garlic paste, salt, sugar, cumin powder, black pepper powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder, Kashmiri chilli powder, chole masala and mix well. Then add water 

5. Add the chole along with the boiled water

6. Cook well 

7. Add very little ghee 

8. Optional - add garam masala, dried coriander leaves and dried kasturi methi.

9. Cook on slow heat.

10. Ready to serve! 😋