Chole chicken??? Sounds weird right? Well, I handgrip that it sounds weird, but it tastes simply fantastic! You direct maintain to drive this dish to uncovering out for yourself if I am telling you lot the truth.
Why did I come upward up alongside this dish? Quite accidentally actually. My piffling miss has alone directly expanded her palate to include chicken. And she wants existent chicken alongside bones that has been curried. Very interesting. One time, I was making Chole for my son's schoolhouse trouble solid unit of measurement feast. My miss comes upto me as well as requests for chicken curry for lunch. What was I supposed to do? That's when the thought struck. I kept aside or thus of the masala ( sauce ) that I made for the Chole . I had or thus chicken marinated inward the fridge. I sautéed the masala as well as thus added the chicken to it as well as cooked it until ii whistles. Voila chicken curry was ready. Towards the cease or thus other inspiration struck as well as I added or thus chick peas to it. My miss doesn't similar to swallow chick peas. I figured, alongside the chicken she would swallow as well as she certain did. That was how Chole chicken was born!
This combination yet is genuinely non that novel. In Bangladeshi as well as Pakistani cuisine, combining chickpeas alongside chicken is mutual place. I strongly advise that you lot drive for yourself as well as see. I hope you, you lot volition non hold out disappointed! It is a bang-up side dish that pairs wonderfully alongside whatever variety of rice, breadstuff or flatbreads.
Servings: 3-4
Ingredients:
Garbanzo beans/Chick peas ( Kabuli Chana): One 10 oz can
( you lot could equally good role 1 loving cup dried chick peas soaked overnight as well as thus cooked to required marking of tenderness).
Chicken: ii lbs, drumsticks/thighs
Lemon juice: 1 tbsp
Salt: 1/4 tsp
Black pepper: 1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder: 1 tsp
Cooking oil: 1 + 1/2 tbsp
Jeera( cumin seeds): 1/2 tsp
Onion: 1 large, chopped.
Garlic: 3-4 modest cloves, chopped fine
Ginger: 1 inch piece, chopped fine.
Green chillies: 4, chopped fine ( you lot tin adapt equally per private spice level).
Tomato paste: ii tbsp ( tin equally good role 1 fresh medium sized tomatoes).
Chole masala: 1 tbsp ( I role Everest or MDH brands) ( If you lot don't direct maintain Chole masala, kindly role the spices suggested inward the "cooking made easy" section).
Red chili powder: 1/4 tsp
Kasoori methi( dried fenugreek leaves): 1 tbsp
Salt: equally per taste
Sugar: 1/4 tsp
Water: 1 cup
Chaat masala: 1/4 tsp ( I role Everest brand)( optional).
Cilantro ( coriander leaves): ii tbsp + 1 tbsp, chopped.
Method:
Marinating the chicken:
Clean the chicken thoroughly as well as cutting it into large pieces. Marinate it alongside lemon juice, salt, dark pepper as well as turmeric pulverization as well as run on aside inward the fridge for at to the lowest degree xxx minutes.
Heat 1 tbsp cooking crude oil inward a sauté pan/ pressure level pan. Add the garlic, ginger, sauté for a minute. Add inward the chopped onions as well as sauté until the onions sweat. Add inward the light-green chillies. If using fresh chopped tomato, you lot may add together it now. If using tomato plant paste, DO NOT ADD at this stage. Once the fresh tomatoes wilt a little, plough off the flaming as well as permit the mixture cool down. Once cooled accept it inward a blender/food processor as well as pulse it to a fine paste. Keep it aside.
Rinse as well as drain the chick peas as well as run on aside.
Heat the remaining 1/2 tbsp crude oil inward the same pan. Add jeera( cumin seeds). Sauté for xxx seconds. Add the soil glue as well as the tomato plant glue ( if you lot direct maintain non used fresh tomatoes earlier). Sauté for 4-5mins on medium flaming until the tomato plant glue starts leaving oil.Add the Chole masala powder, cherry-red chilli pulverization as well as mix well. Add the marinated chicken, kasoori methi, coriander leaves, salt, sugar, as well as mix well. Add 1 loving cup H2O as well as convey the mixture to a boil. If using the pressure level cooker, comprehend the lid alongside the whistle on. Reduce the flaming to
medium-low as well as educate until you lot listen ii whistles. Turn of the flame. Do non opened upward until all the pressure level within has been released.
If using a sauté pan, comprehend as well as permit it simmer until the chicken has cooked to the desired tenderness.
Garnish alongside coriander leaves as well as chat masala.
Serve hot alongside rice/bread/flat bread.
Enjoy! I am bringing this to Saucy Sabbatum and Angie's Fiesta Fri where Josette @ thebrookcook and Lily @ piffling sweetness baker are co-hosts. I know I am a piffling belatedly for the political party but I was busy having a birthday political party for my daughter.
Cooking made easy:
If you lot produce non direct maintain Chole masala or Chana masala spice mix, simply add together ( for the higher upward recipe):
3/4 tbsp coriander powder,1/2 tsp cumin powder
1/2 tsp garam masala
The Chana masala or the Chole spice mix has a lot to a greater extent than ingredients inward it, but the higher upward mix to a greater extent than than compensates for the mix. The most as well as best compliments I direct maintain received is when I made Chole/Chana masala without the spice mix as well as using the higher upward substitutes. This as well as other experiences has over the years, directly has me alongside minimal spice mixes inward my kitchen cabinet. If you lot notice you lot basically involve coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala inward varied proportions inward most dishes. So, why purchase all the spice mixes as well as permit them sit down inward your pantry??
Think close it.
Tip for salubrious living:
Make your meals healthier past times gradually increasing the proportion of protein, fruits as well as vegetables inward your plate piece reducing the proportion of rice/roti/ breadstuff on it.
Food for thought:
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