Best chole bhature – Simple way to get UNBELIEVABLE taste

My weekends used to be happiest weekends when I used to visit a local street food vendor for having most delicious chole bhature around 12 o’clock noon. It was breakfast as well lunch, haha. I used to wake around 10 o’clock and after freshen up and I used to start thinking whether I should make something for me or have chole bhature from local famous chhole bhature stall at DDA market, sector 11, Rohini, Delhi. Finally, most of the time, I used to visit local shop and have chole bhature. I went through such a life phase almost a decade ago.

One piece of bhature was available for Rs 20 in 2011. It was not costly. So the crowd was always there. But such chole bhature is now not available at a local shop in Kolkata.

So I had to learn and do a lot of experiment to get a similar taste. It is not a simple dish. But anybody can make if he/she will try for sometimes at home.

It is not just my favorite street food but also most people living in Northern Indian states love this awesome food chole bhature. It is such a food for what people are ready to wait in front of crowded street food stall. In fact if you are hungry and you are passing through such a stall. Then you simply can not avoid the stall. You have to order a plate of chhole bhature and satisfy your soul.

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Recipes for Bhature & Chole

Bhature recipe

Bhature recipe

 

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Preparation time: 1 hour Cooking time: 15 mins Very delicious homemade bhature

Author: PM (FavCounter)

Recipe type: Main

Cuisine: Punjabi

Serves: 5 pieces

Ingredients

• 1.5 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tbsp suji/semolina/rava
• 2.5 tbsp curd/yogurt
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp sugar, powder
• 2 tsp melted butter
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed (for kneading)
• 2.5 tbsp refined oil for frying

Instructions

1. Take all purpose flour, semolina, curd, baking powder, sugar, butter & salt in a large bowl
2. Now mix all properly
3. Add water as needed and knead it to make a soft dough
4. Cover it with a cloth and rest it for atleast 30 mins
5. Now knead that dough again and make 4-6 small balls with that dough
6. Roll each ball and give it shape of bhature (circular, oval etc)
7. Heat oil in a cooking pot and deep fry each bhature one by one till those bhature turns into golden colour or dark golden

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Bhature wala chole recipe

Best chole recipe

 

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Preparation time: 8 hours Cooking time: 30 mins mouthwatering chole for crispy & soft bhature

Author: PM (FavCounter)

Recipe type: Main

Cuisine: Punjabi

Ingredients

For boiling chole

• 1.5 cups white chickpeas
• 3-4 cardamoms/ilaichi
• 4-5 cloves/laung
• 2 bay leaves
• 1.5 teaspoons tea leaves (or amla powder/pieces)
• Salt to taste

For chole masala/gravy

• 2 onion finely chopped
• 2 teaspoons ginger paste
• 1.5 teaspoons garlic paste
• 2 medium size tomato, pureed
• 4 green chillies, chopped
• 2 teaspoons turmeric powder
• 2 teaspoons kasmiri lal mirch
• 1.5 teaspoons garama masala
• 2 teaspoons aamchur powder/dry mango powder
• 1.5 teaspoon cumin (jeera) powder
• 2 teaspoons coriander (dhania) powder
• 2.5 teaspoons pomegranate seeds/anar dana
• Salt to taste
• 2 tablespoons veg oil/refined oil/ghee/butter
• 1 medium size potato

For tempering

• ½ tablespoon ghee
• 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
• Pinches of hing/asafoetida (optional)
• 2 teaspoons kasuri methi (optional)
• 1 inch ginger, cut into long thin pieces (optional)

Instructions

For boiling chole

1. Soak white chickpea for overnight then drain the extra water, wash it again
2. Now take soaked chole into a pressure cooker and add whole cardamoms, cloves, bay leaves, salt and pour water
3. Add tea extract water (in a separate pot boil tea leaves in water for 5-7 minutes and strain it)
4. Now pressure cook it till 4-5 whistles

For gravy preparation

1. Heat refined oil/butter/ghee in a cooking pot and add finely chopped onion, stir it for next 2 mins
2. Add ginger & garlic paste too & cook till it turns into light brown
3. Add tomato puree and stir to mix, cook all till it releases oil
4. Then add green chillies, turmeric powder, kashmiri lal mirch, cumin powder, coriander powder, anar dana powder, salt and cook for another 2 minutes
5. Now add boiled chole (white chickpeas) along with its water and mix all
6. Cook another a few minutes till it reaches desired consistency & thicken the gravy
7. Now take bhature wala chole in a serving bowl

Adding fried potato

1. Cut boiled potato into pieces (any size of your choice) and fry in oil till turns into light brown in color
2. Add those potato pieces to chole

For tempering

1. Heat ghee and add red chillie powder, hing (optional), kasuri methi (optional) & ginger (optional juleinne cut)
2. Pour it over chole and serve with bhature

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