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Bhature chole is a famous Punjabi dish which is a combination of chana masala and bhatura, which is a fried bread made from maida or all purpose flour.I have prepared chole many times and we used to have it with roti.This was the first time that I tried making bhatures and we realized that having chole with bhature-the combination is so delicious that you shall never want to have chole with roti anymore :P My son loved them too and had bhatures as-is just like he eats puris.
Ingredients-
all purpose flour/maida
curd
salt
sugar
oil
lukewarm water
chickpeas/kabuli chana
tea bags
water
onion
ginger
garlic
green chillies
tomatoes
turmeric/haldi powder
red chilly/mirchi powder
coriander/dhaniya powder
cumin/jeera powder
chole masala powder
coriander leaves/dhaniya patta
Method -
First prepare the dough for the bhature as per the below steps.
Take maida in a large bowl.
Make a well-like in the center of the maida.
Add curd,salt and sugar in that well.
Mix it with a spoon.
Now add some oil and mix.
Add little warm water and knead the dough.
Knead the dough really well.
It should be a soft and smooth dough.
Keep it covered with a wet muslin cloth.
In the meanwhile the bhature dough is kept covered, prepare the chana masala as below.
Wash the chana and soak it in water for 7-8hours or overnight.
Boil the chana with water and 2-3tea bags.
The tea bags give a nice brown colour to the chick peas.
Roughly chop the onion,tomatoes,green chillies and coriander leaves.
Make a paste of ginger and garlic.
Heat oil in a non-stick pan/kadhai.
Put in the onions and fry till light brown.
Add in the ginger-garlic paste.
Fry it for a while.
Add the chopped tomatoes,salt,haldi,mirchi,dhaniya,jeera powder.
Let it cook till the oil separates out.
Now add the boiled chanas.
Add sufficient water as the gravy.
Put in the chole masala powder and cook for 5min.
Garnish with freshly chopped coriander leaves.
Now to fry the bhatures -
Prepare round balls out of the dough.
With some maida roll with a rolling pin into an oval shaped puri.
Heat oil in a deep pan.
Fry the bhatures till light brown on both sides.
Chole bhature is ready to serve.
This is a very simple dish which can be had as a quick snack.The beauty of it is it requires bare minimum ingredients which are almost always part of your pantry(bread and potatoes).So please go ahead and try these bread rolls at home.. :)
Ingredients-
potatoes
onion
ginger
garlic
bread
green chillies
turmeric/haldi powder
red chilli/mirchi powder
cumin/jeera powder
coriander leaves/dhaniya patta
salt
bread slices
water
oil
Method -
Boil the potatoes with skin till soft.
Peel off the skin and mash them.Add salt.
Make a paste of ginger and garlic.
Chop the onions,green chillies and coriander leaves.
Heat oil in a non stick pan.
Put in the ginger and garlic.
Fry for a while and then add chopped onions.
Let it fry for sometime.Add the chillies.
Add salt,haldi,red chilli and jeera powder.
Mix well and add freshly chopped coriander leaves.
Spread out this mixture on a plate to cool down.
Take a slice of bread.Cut off the edges.
Dip it lightly in water.
Squeeze out the water from it as much as possible.
Now take some potato mixture and place it in the center of the bread.
Fold the edges of the bread to make a roll.
Cover it as much as possible and give the shape.
Heat oil for frying.
Once the oil is hot, deep fry the roll into it.
Fry it on a medium flame on both sides till light brown.
Similarly make rolls out of other bread slices.
Crispy bread rolls are ready to serve with ketchup and salad :)
Note-If you wish to have pure veg rolls, just avoid the onion and garlic in the above process.
My toddler loves pancakes.One morning when I served him bread for breakfast,he said he wanted pancakes.I tried to make him understand that I would prepare them some other day, but was in vain.I did not want to prepare the normal pancakes as I already had bread.So I thought of using the bread, and the pancakes made out of bread turned out so yummy that everyone just loved them and they are a hot favourite in my house now :)
Ingredients -
bread slices-2
milk-1/2cup
egg-1
water
sugar
oil/butter for frying
Method -
Cut the edges off the bread slices.
Dip them in water till soft and squeeze out the water.
whisk 1 egg in a bowl.
Add milk,the softened bread slices and sugar to it.
Adjust the sugar quantity as per your need.
Mix well.
Heat a non-stick pan.
Add few drops of oil/butter to it.
Pour one laddle full of the batter.
Cook till the pancake turns light brown and then flip and cook on the other side.
Soft pancakes are ready to serve :-)
This quantity makes 3 pancakes.
