Recipe- Choley

Ingredients
Chickpeas/ Choley 1 cup (Soaked overnight)
Salt 1 tsp (or according to taste)
Amla Powder 1 tsp
Ghee 1 tbsp
Asafoetida/ Hing 1 pinch
Jeera 1 tsp
Onion 1 medium
Green Chili 5 medium
Ginger Garlic Paste 2 tsp
Tomato puree 1 cup
Red Chili 1 tsp (or as per your taste buds)
Chole Masala 3 tsp (Store brought)

Method

• Wash and drain choley properly.
• Take a pressure cooker and boil choley with 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp amla powder.
• When done mash choley a little bit with a heavy spoon (Fig 1). 
• Now take 1 tbsp ghee in another pan and heat on high flame.
• When ghee is hot enough add jeera and hing, let it cracker.
• Then add chopped onion and fry untill pink in color.
• Add Ginger garlic paste and fry.
• Add green chili and fry (Fig 2).
• Add tomato puree and fry til it starts leaving sides (Fig 3).
• Add red chilli powder and chola masala, fry for few minutes.
• Reduce the flame to low and cover the pan for 5 minutes.
• Add boiled choley and mix well.
• Cover and cook on low flame for another 10 minutes.
• Garnish with onion, ginger and green chilis.
• Serve hot with rice, bhature or chapati.