Chole

Serving : 2 people

Ingredients: 2 medium tomato

1 medium onion

1 or 1.5 cups of Chick peas

4 tsp Salt

1 tsp kasuri methi

1 tsp cumin seeds

2 small green chilly

1 tsp tumeric

1 tsp red chilly powder

2 Tablespoon Dhania Jeera power

4 tsp Chole masala

2 Tsp curd (optional)

Corinder to garnish

Method :

Take a small piece of white cloth. Place some tea leaves in the centre, gather the cloth and seal its mouth so that tea leaves don't fall out. Keep this in the pressure cooker along with chick peas. Pressure cook until tender. Tea adds brown color to the chick peas.

Take 1 Tsp oil in a pan and add cumin seeds

Cut onion, tomato and green chilli. Grind it in mixie along with ginger and garlic and make paste.

Pour the above paste in the pan once you hear the crackling sound of the cumin seeds.

Add tumeric powder , salt, dhania jeera, chilly powder, kasuri methi and chole masala and let it cook for 10-12 minutes

Add Yogurt to make the curry little thick (optional)

Add chick peas and let it cook for 10 min

Add water to maintain consistency

In the end garnish with corinder