Description
Hi All Here is the recipe of Channa Masala made with chickpeas and spices.Really tastes good with Poori,Chapathi,Parotta, and even with plain rice and pulav. Hope u will enjoy this dish.| Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| 2 cup | Chick peas[soaked and well boiled] |
| 2 nos | Onion[finely chopped] |
| 1 no | Tomato[big size chopped] |
| 1 no | Green chilly[chopped] |
| 1 T | Chilly powder[as per individuals preference] |
| 1 T | Corriander powder |
| 1 tsp | Cumin seed powder |
| 1 tsp | Garam masala |
| Salt (as per taste) | |
| Oil as per need | |
| Whole spices[ few fennel seeds,big cardamom, 2 cloves,1 inch cinnamon stick, 1 bay leaf] | |
| Corriander leaves for garnishing | |
| 1 tsp | Amchoor powder (optional) can substitute with lemon juice |
| 1 T | Ginger garlic paste |
| ½ tsp | Cumin seeds |
Instructions
Soak the chickpeas overnight or atleast for 5-6 hrs and pressure cook it with a little salt and keep it aside.Donot pour the rest of the water as it can be used for the gravy.
Take a pan add oil and add the whole spices and jeera
add onion and saute it till translucent
now add greenchillies and ginger garlic paste and saute well till the raw smell disappears
then add tomatoes and saute well till it completely dissolves
Add chilly powder,corriander powder,cuminseed powder,garam masala powder,amchur powder and salt and mix well
Now add the channa and the rest of the water that u used to boil channa and allow it to cook check in between and mash afew channa to make the gravy thick.
Garnish with corriander leaves and serve with Poori.
Notes
If u r in a hurry and u dont have time to soak the chickpeas, u can directly cook in the pressure cooker with half tsp of baking soda and alittle salt.
Amchur can be sustituted by Lemonjuice u can use lemon juice as per ur taste, i have used half tsp of lemon juice not more than that.
If u dont have time to finely chop the onion and tomato, u can directly grind them finely and saute it well and then after adding the masala and chickpeas,pressure cook it for a while say till one whistle.Then the gravy would be fine.
They even add pomegranate powder to this recipe along with amchur, just to bring in a tangy flavour.
The chilly powder,corriander powder,cuminseed powder and garam masala powder can be substituted with CHANNA MASALA if u have it handy at home.
Comments
7 responses to “Channa Masala”
We had this for dinner with poori, yummy!!!
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Arthi
Channa masala is my fauvorite too… Very nice dish..
Keep going
Thanx Arthi, pls do check the additional info which i added just now..hope it would be helpful for a working woman like u 🙂
Sadhana Raveen
Adichi dhool kelapuringa Sadhana..keep on going..my fav dish..
Aahaa look who is telling that!!! 😛 Thanx priya
Sadhana Raveen
hai sadhana,
i was looking for this for a long time…let me try and give u the result
Sure Mano..pls do jupdate me if u liked it or not
Sadhana Raveen