Chole Masala with Aloo
Servings 5
Ingredients
- 2 cups Chana
- 2 medium Onions
- 2 medium Tomatoes
- 2 medium Potatoes
- 1 inch Ginger
- 4 pods Garlic
- 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
- 1 tsp Coriander Powder
- 1 tsp Garam Masala Powder
- Salt to taste
- Cooking Oil
- Coriander Leaves
Instructions
- Soak Channa overnight, (at least for 6 hours) in water. Pressure cook it along with Potatoes, to get tender channa dal. Ensure its not soggy.
- Cut Onions, Tomatoes into pieces. Add fresh Ginger, Garlic and make everything into fine paste.
- Heat Oil in a kadai, put the masala paste. Sauté on high flame. Add all the powders. Cook for 5 mins.
- Then, add the cooked Channa to the kadai. Mash all the potatoes and add to the gravy to get thick consistency. Sim it for a while until you get a thick gravy.
- You can add the potatoes as cubes, also but mashed potatoes make gravy thick. If you want to add it as cubes, then pressure cook Channa and keep it for 2 whistles, then add potatoes and again put on whistle for 2 more. I thick everybody mostly pressure cooks channa otherwise it takes lot of cooking time.
- Finally garnish it with Coriander leaves, Onion and Lime pieces.
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