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How to Make Quick Punjabi Chole | Tasty and Quick Chickpea –

Chole is a staple for many north Indian households. Most Importantly Its a very delicious legume packed with protein.

The process of cooking food is usually a long tedious one but with great returns. Punjabi Chole making process is no different with multiple steps involved through out the cooking process. After working long hours we don’t want to spend a lot of time cooking and because Chole is one of our favorite food we had to find a simpler approach. Therefore We @DhabaStyle have devised a simpler approach where we cook all the ingredients of Punjabi Chole in a Pressurized vessel.

For this Quick and Tasty Punjabi Chole Recipe all you have to do is gather all of the ingredients, put them in a pressure cooker and let them cook under pressure for some time. The pressure created in the cooker breaks down and fuses the flavors of all the individual ingredients together for a dish that is really great tasting and takes very little monitoring/oversight on your part.

Now we don’t often like to use store bought masala’s in our cooking and try to make them on our own. For this recipe we made our own Punjabi Chole Masala. If you have a favorite brand of masala that you would like to use instead , well this recipe got even easier for you. 🙂

Try this Recipe with Dhabastyle Bhatura or DhabaStyle Jeera Onion Rice

Ingredients

Green chilli – 3

Garlic – 3 flakes

Ginger – 1 inch piece

Coriander leaves – 1/4 cup

Mint leaves – 1/4 cup

Coriander seeds powder – 1 tsp

Red chilli powder – 1/2 tsp

Chole masala/ Garam masala – 1 tsp

Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp

Salt – as needed

To temper

Cinnamon – 1 small piece

Step by step method

Soak chana overnight. Morning, drain water, add enough water to it and pressure cook for 4 whistles in medium flame. Chop onion, tomato roughly into cubes. Peel garlic and ginger, chop them roughly. I ground everything together and found ginger and garlic takes time to get ground, so I recommend you to grind ginger, garlic and green chilli first and then add other ingredients.

Grind ginger, garlic, green chill, onion, tomato, mint and coriander leaves to smooth paste.

In a small pressure cooker, add oil, temper with cinnamon, clove and cardamom. Lower the flame and add the ground paste carefully.

Cook covered for sometime as it splutters a lot. For 3 minutes. Add garam masala or chole masala, red chilli powder, coriander seeds powder, turmeric, required salt and mix. Continue frying covered until aromatic.

Once oil separates, add the cooked chana along with the chana cooked water.

Add required water and pressure cook for a whistle. Give some standing time before serving.

Notes

• If you want the gravy in greener side, increase green chilli and reduce red chilli powder and chole masala. As we add coriander and mint leaves, it will be flavourful, no need to rely on the masala powders.
• Adjust water consistency as needed.

Goes well with bhatura the best or even with phulkas. Serve with chopped raw onions. The mint and coriander leaves we add makes it special and really flavourful.

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Preparation time 10-12 hours

Cook time 40 minutes

Total time 12.40 minutes

Difficulty level easy

Indian cuisine Punjabi cuisine