Oil Free Chickpea Curry - Chana Masala - Chole Without Oil

by Reena Nigam
(Mumbai)

Kabuli Chana is also known as Chickpeas or garbanzo beans in English. Generally we find curries using lots of fats; oil, butter or ghee.

This chickpea curry - Chana masala or chole recipe, does not use any oil and is still yummy.

How to make chickpea curry – Chana Masala – Chole without oil

Ingredients for oil less chickpea curry

250 gm chick peas (kabuli chana)

4 cloves, 1 spoon tea (any black drinking tea), 1 stick cinnamon, 1 spoon cumin seed, 1/2 spoon aniseed,7-8 black pepper, bay leaves 2 pc. or any garam masala of your own choice

1 spoon coriander seed, 1/2 spoon cumin seed, 2 red dry chilies, hing(asafetida) 1/4th spoon

salt as per taste

baking soda 1/2 tea spoon

2 medium size onion finely chopped

2 tomatoes finely chopped

2 tea spoon finely chopped green coriander

Cooking chana - chole Process:

1. Soak the chana for 6-8 hrs or overnight. Then wash it and put the baking soda and 2 glasses of water and just wait for 1/2 an hour.


2. Drain water and wash it again, so that soda will be washed out. (In this way chana chilka will not come out at the time of boiling and evenly cooked)


3. Now put it in the pressure cooker with 3 glasses of water for 3 min. then reduce flame and cook for about 20 min. Now keep it aside and in its own pressure it will be cooked.


4. Now make dry roast the spices mentioned in ingredients no.3 and powder them.


5. Now in the pressure cooker itself mix the roasted and powdered spices, onion, tomato and coriander and cook for 5 min till the gravy becomes thick.

Fatfree Chola chana Masala is ready to eat. Serve it with poori, chapatti, paratha or plain rice.

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