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How to make Amritsari Poori Chole / Punjabi puri and Chole Masala
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Today I will share step by step with images of a complete recipe that is How to make Amritsari Poori Chole / Punjabi puri and Chole Masala with limited use of spices and ingredients. This traditional recipe from Punjab is a rich dark brownish side dish served with kulche, poori, or bhatura. Poori is deep-fried Indian flatbread. The combo of this poori and chole is a mouth-watering breakfast and is very popular in Punjab and many other places in North India. And the poori they made is a little bit thicker than other parts of India which are also very soft.
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Equipment used
- Pressure cooker
- Blender
- Kadai/pan
- Mixing bowl
- Spatula
Ingredients
For chole
- Kabuli Chana (White Chickpeas), (soaked overnight)-1 cup
- Onion-2
- Tomato-1
- Ginger garlic paste-1 tbsp
- Whole spices to make potli (bag)
- Cardamom-1
- Tea leaves-1 tbsp
- Cinnamon stick-1/2 inch
- Cloves-5
- Peppercorn-5
- Bay leaf-1
- Ghee/oil-2 tbsp
- Turmeric powder-1/2 tbsp
- Red chili powder-1/2 tbsp
- Chole masala powder-1 tbsp
- Dry mango powder-1/2 tbsp
- Corn flour-3/4 tbsp
- Pinch of baking soda
- Salt
- Coriander leaves for garnishing
For poori
- All purpose flour-1.5 cup
- Curd-1/2 cup (corn flour)
- Baking soda-1/2 tbsp
- Salt-1/2 tbsp
- Oil-2 cup
How to make Amritsari Poori Chole /Punjabi puri and Chole Masala
To make chole
- Let the Kabuli Chana/ Chickpeas soak for 5-6 hours in water. Then make a potli/bag consisting of bay leaf, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and peppercorn and seal it.
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- Add the soaked chana into the pressure cooker, adding the spices potli/bag, salt, and baking soda. Add water, cover the lid and wait for 2 whistles.
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- Open the lid, check whether the chana is properly boiled, and take out the potli.
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- Now heat oil/ghee in a Kadai
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- Add sliced onions and stir them
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- Add ginger garlic paste and sauté them for 20-30sec
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- Now add red chili powder, turmeric powder, chole masala powder, and amchur powder and stir them continuously till the raw smell of the spices goes off.
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Then pour the boiled chole with water, and allow them to cook without cover for 8-10 minutes on low flame
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To make the consistency thick you can mash a few chana or you can add corn flour water which is totally optional.
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Now turn off the flame and transfer them to a serving plate to serve with poori or bhatore.
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To make Poori
- Take maida/all-purpose flour in a big mixing bowl
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- Add curd, salt, and baking soda
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- Mix them and knead soft dough, cover it with a wet kitchen towel and keep it aside for 30 minutes.
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- After 30 minutes take the dough and place it in a flat place and knead it more to make a fine dough
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- Divide them into 12 equal parts and make 12 lemon size balls.
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- In the meantime heat oil in a Kadai.
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- Now with the help of a rolling pin, make the balls into a flat 3-inch diameter size flat circle.
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- Slowly place one of the puris and fry it, once fried on one side, then turn it to the other side and fry it.
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- Same way to fry all the puris one by one.
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- Transfer them to a serving plate and serve with chole.
You may go for my other poori recipes Aloo Puri/Aloo ki poori , Ragi Poori, Luchi Aloobhaja, Aam Puri Recipe,Koraishutir Kochuri