Chole Bhature

 As usual i discussed with kids yesterday night about breakfast menu... They both wanted Chole Batura.... I too said ok and slept... Morning only i noticed no sooji in our home, no shop opened at that time, dough need to be made before three hours of preparation of puri, so i dont want to wait till shop open.... First thought of making it without adding rava, then suddenly one idea came, i just run the semolina ( semiya) for only pulse to sooji texture and added it to the maida, then kneaded dough.... Result is wonderful, i got crispy bathure.... 

Bathure with punjabi style chole are made for each other na?????  My kids loved to have this combo along with raw onion and lemon...

I dont have chole masala in home, so prepared fresh masala which added excelled taste to the recipe....

Ingredients

For Bhature

Maida - 2 cups

Sooji or rava - 4 tsp

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Curd - 1/4 cup

Sugar - 2 tsp

Water - as needed

For chole

White Channa - 1 cup 

( Soak channa over night, pressure cook in the morning, after three whistles, keep flame in sim for 20 minutes so that channa cooks well, can use black channa too for more healthier version, but my kids love white channa only)

For chole masala

Bay leaves 1

cardamom – 1

Cloves – 4-5

Cinnamon stick - small piece

Pepper corns 1/2 tsp 

Coriander seeds - 1 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp 

dry fry the above ingredients and powder it. If you want to prepare and store means, can add red chillies  too, since i added red chilli powder, didnt add it in the masala powder.

For paste

Onion - 2

Tomatoes - 5 ( by reducing tomatoes, can add tamarind too)

Green chillies - 2

Ginger - 1 inch piece

Garlic pods - 5

Oil - 2 tsp

( in a pan add oil, add one by one saute well, cool it, grind it to paste adding handful of cooked channa along with it) 

Other ingredients

Oil - 1 tbs

Onion - 1

Garlc - 4 pods

Ginger - 1/2 inch piece

Red chilli powder- 1 tbs

Mango powder - 1/2 tsp

Dry methi leaves - 1tsp

Water - little

Salt - for taste

For seasoning

Bay leaves - 1

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Method

For Bhature

Mix maida, sooji, baking powder, curd , sugar, add water little by little and knead to a tight dough like we do for poori. Keep it covered for two to three hours. After three hours, knead it well again. Make big balls out of it. Roll it to big circle and deep fry in oil. 

For Chole

In a pan add oil, season it with items mentioned under seasoning. Then add nicely chopped onion, saute well, then add nicely chopped garlic and ginger, saute well. Then add grinded paste. Keepjg in sim flame, Saute well till oil starts leaving side. Now add red chille powder, mango powder, salts saute well till raw smell goes. Add cooked channa. Add necessary water at this stage. When it thickens add chole masala, dry methi leaves, mix well. Switch off the flame.

Serve hot along with Bhature, raw onion and lemon.