Restaurant style Chole Bhature

Instructions

Chole Masala

Step 1: Wash chole really good and soak them in enough water overnight.

Step 2: Drain all the water from the soaked chole and transfer them into a cooker.

Step 3: Add bay leaves and water. Close the lid and cook on high heat until 1 whistle.

Step 4: Reduce the heat to medium heat and cook until 4-5 whistles. Or you can steam the chole on low heat for 20 minutes after 1 whistle on high heat.

Step 5: Heat up oil in a pan on medium heat and add cumin seeds.

Step 6: When cumin seeds splutter, add onion and salt and fry well together until onion gets nice golden color.

Step 7: Add tomato and ginger-garlic paste and fry it well together until tomato is cooked nice and soft for about 5-6 minutes.

Step 8: Add coriander powder, kitchen king masala and red chili powder and fry it well together for about a minute.

Step 9: Move the masala along the edge of the pan and besan. Fry besan for about a minute and mix it well with the masala.

Step 10: Add coriander leaves and salt and mix well.

Step 11: Add cooked chole along with water and mix well.

Step 12: Add garam masala and coriander leaves and mix well.

Step 13: Simmer chole on medium heat for at least 7-8 minutes. Chole masala is ready.

Bhatura

Step 14: Mix curd, water, baking powder and baking soda well together and add maida and salt. Mix well and knead soft dough.

Step 15: Cover and rest the dough for about 5-10 minutes.

Step 16: Add oil and knead the dough well once.

Step 17: Take out small portions from the dough and make them smooth and even.

Step 18: Roll bhatura from the dough ball.

Step 19: Heat up oil on high heat and drop bhatura in it.

Step 20: Press the bhatura a little so that it will puff up nicely.

Step21:Fry bhatura on high heat until it gets nice golden color from both sides.

Step 22: When lower side is fried well, flip the bhatura over and fry well from other side too. Fry the edges also well.

Step 23: When the bhatura gets nice golden color from all sides, take the bhatura out, drain excess oil and transfer it on a wire rack. Bhatura is ready.