Recipe of Homemade Mother’s Amritsari Chole

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, mother’s amritsari chole. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Mother’s Amritsari Chole is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Mother’s Amritsari Chole is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mother’s amritsari chole using 24 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mother’s Amritsari Chole:

1. Make ready To boil the chole (chickpeas)
2. Take 2 cups kabuli chana (chickpeas) soaked in room temperature water for more than 8 hours (after being soaked they will double in size)
3. Take 1 tea bag (for the colour)
4. Prepare 1 tbsp black pepper powder (for the fragrance)
5. Make ready salt to taste
6. Take For the masala / main dish
7. Get 3 tbsp oil
8. Make ready 1 tsp hing
9. Make ready 2 tbsp cumin seeds
10. Get 4-5 cloves garlic (beaten into a paste)
11. Make ready 2 inch ginger (beaten into a paste)
12. Make ready 1-2 cinnamon stick
13. Make ready 3-4 cloves
14. Make ready 3-4 bay leaves
15. Take 2 cups diced onions
16. Make ready 2 cups pureed tomatoes
17. Take 1 tbsp red chilli powder
18. Make ready 3 tbsp chole masala
19. Get 1 tbsp garam masala
20. Make ready salt to taste
21. Make ready Garnish
22. Take 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
23. Make ready 1 inch ginger cut into thin slices (fried)
24. Get 1 tsp kasoori methi

Steps to make Mother’s Amritsari Chole:

1. 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
2. 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)
3. Strain the soaked water and add the chickpeas to a pressure cooker
4. Sprinkle 1 tbsp black pepper powder and add 2 tea bags
5. Fill the cooker with enough water to submerge the chickpeas
6. Add a tsp of salt and mix well
7. Close the lid and pressure cook for about 4-5 whistles on medium flame (let the first whistle blow on full flame)
8. Heat oil in a wok / kadhai
9. Add one tsp hing followed by cumin seeds
10. Wait for 30 seconds and add the garlic paste
11. As soon as garlic starts to become off-white add the ginger and mix well
12. Add the minced green chillies
13. Swirl around for another 30 seconds and the add the cinnamon sticks (whole), cloves and bay leaves
14. Once the dish gets fragrant, add the onions and keep stirring
15. 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
16. Once the onions are brown you can add all the spices (red chilli powder, chole masala, garam masala) and mix well for 1 minute
17. Add the pureed tomatoes followed by some salt so that the tomatoes get cooked well
18. Fry the tomatoes until you see floating oil, again, skipping this step means compromising the flavour
19. 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)
20. From the saved water, add a total of 1.5 cups to the dish, little at a time, checking for correct consistency
21. 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
22. 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)
23. Squeeze half a lemon, add kasoori methi and stir
24. Turn off the stove and cover the wok
25. Meanwhile, in a separate frying pan, take 1 tbsp oil and heat
26. Fry the sliced ginger in that pan and sprinkle some salt on it
27. Garnish the wok of chole with fried ginger slices and chopped cilantro
28. 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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