Chole Bhature.

Chole Bhature is a very popular & famous Punjabi recipe.

Ingredients:

For making Bhature:
All Purpose Flour                 : 1cup.
Water                                   : 1/2cup.
Butter/Ghee                          : 2spoons.
Baking Soda                         : a pinch.
Sour Yogurt                           : 3/4th cup.
Sugar                                     : 1/2spoon.
Salt                                        : 1spoon.
Oil                                         : required quantity used for deep frying.

For making Chole Curry:
Chole                                        : 1/2cup.
Water                                        : 1cup.
Green Peas                                : a handful.
Potatoes                                    : 2.
Chole Masala                             : 1spoon.
Turmeric                                     : a pinch.
Red Chilly Powder                     : 1/2spoon.
Salt                                            : 1/2 & 1/2spoon.
Oil                                              : 1spoon.
Cumin Seeds                               : 1/2spoon.
Coriander Powder                       : 1/2spoon.
Ginger-Garlic Paste                      : 1spoon.
Onion(Finely Chopped)                : 1/2cup.
Tomatoes (Chopped)                    : 1/2cup.


Preparation:

For Bhature:
Take a mixing bowl, add all the ingredients(Flour, Baking Soda, Sugar, Sour Yogurt, Salt & Butter/ghee) and mix with  Water and make a smooth and soft dough. Now keep it aside for 2 hours by covering it with a wet cloth. After 2 hours, heat a kadhai with required amount of Oil used for deep frying. Now start making small balls from the dough. Gently press each ball into a paramecium shape bhature (Poori) with rolling pin. When the Oil gets heated, add these bhature into the Oil and just fry them until they turns golden color.Now remove from the kadhai and place it on a tissue paper in order to get excess Oil out. Continue this process until the dough is completed.  Serve it hot.

For Chole Curry:
Soak the Chole in 1cup of Water for 8 hours. Boil this soaked Chole along with Water, 1/2spoon of Salt and a Tea bag in a pressure cooker. Wait for 5 whistles. Keep this boiled Chole aside to get cooled. Now peel out the skin of Potatoes and boil them with sufficient water in a pressure cooker. Wait for 2 whistles. In the meanwhile, heat a kadhai with 1spoon Oil in it at a medium flame. When the Oil gets heated, add Cumin seeds, Ginger-Garlic Paste & chopped Onions and saute them until the Onion turns light golden color. Now add Green Peas & Tomato Pieces and cook it for 5 minutes. Now smash the boiled Potatoes. After 5 minutes, add smashed Potatoes, boiled Chole along with Water, Turmeric, Red Chilly Powder, 1/2spoon of Salt, Coriander Powder & Chole Masala  and again cook for another 6 minutes. Cook it until it becomes a thick gravy mixture. Now turn off the stove. Serve hot,  the Chole Curry with Bhature. It is a mouth-watering combination.

Note: Before start heating the kadhai for Bhature. Just rub with a little quantity of Surf/ Rin Powder, outside the kadhai. It prevents from burning the kadhai.