Tasty Tasty Chholey Bhature

My Memories with this dish are ever lasting. My mom use to prepare Chholey Bhature whenever I go home after many months. This Recipe is altough takes a bit of tim ebut very easy ti prepare. It is very very tasty and spicy, you will definitely cherish it. So, here is the recipe...

Ingredients:

FOR CHHOLEY

White/kabuli channa - 500 gm
1 or 2 tea bags
3 medium sliced onions
3 medium slice tomatoes
1 tbs ginger garlic paste
3-4 green chillis
2 piece moti elaichi
2 tbs dhania powder
3 tbs black jeera powder
1 tbs garam masala
1 tbs jeera
3 tbs lemon juice
1 stick of dal cheeni
salt to taste
red chilli powder to taste.
2 TBSN oil.

FOR BHATURE

2 cups maida
1/2 cup sooji
salt to taste
1 tsb ajwain
1/2 tsb baking powder
2 pinch baking soda
1 cup yogurt
oil for deep fry.

Instructions:

1. Previous night make a dough for bhature. Mix all the ingredients of bhature. Make dough with the help of water. It should not be very tight or very soft. Leave it in the kitchen, not in the refrigerator.

2. Boil channa with water, salt, moti elaichi, jeera powder and 2 tea bags.

3. Take a cooking pan. Heat 2 tbsn oil, add jeera, dalchini and onions. fry it till onions get light brown and then add ginger garlic paste, after 20 seconds put sliced tomatoes. Cook them till the oil separates.

4. Add dhania powder, garam masala, lemon juice, red chiili powder, salt and channa with small amount of water. Cover them and cook it for 5- 10 minutes. And your punjabi chhole are ready.

5. To make bhature oil for deep fry. Make small balls from the dough and flatten them with belan. Deep fry them in oil and serve with hot chhole and salad.

The all time great Aloo Paratha

Indians, specially from North, rarely like their rotis plain. Instead they prefer them stuffed with various vegetables. These stuffed Indian breads are known as parathas. They can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner, either with a vegetable or dal or Curd and various Raithas. Given here is the most popular, Aloo Paratha recipe :

The ingredients for Aloo Paratha are:

1. 3 cups of wheat flour
2. 2 mashed potatoes
3. Ghee
4. Finely chopped coriander leaves
5. 3 finely chopped green chilies
6. Finely chopped ginger
7. 1 teaspoon of mango powder
8. 1 teaspoon of chili powder

Knead the flour into dough and keep aside. Then place the mashed potatoes in a separate dish and all other ingredients except for the ghee. Then roll out the dough into medium thick circles. Stuff some the potato mix into this and make a ball. Then roll this out till flat. Grease a hot tava with ghee and place the stuffed dough over it and let it roast. Remove from the tava and repeat the same with rest of the dough.