Chole Bhature – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take chole into a bowl and wash them really good 2-3 times with water.
• Add water and soak chole over night.
• Next morning drain all the water and transfer chole into pressure cooker.
• Add enough water to soak chole.
• Close the lid and cook on medium heat until 7-8 whistles.
• In a dish take maida.
• Add fine rava, salt to taste, baking soda, oil and curd.
• Mix well and add a little water at a time and knead thick dough.
• The consistency of the dough must be thick and not thin.
• Add oil and knead the dough again until it becomes soft for 5-7 minutes more.
• Transfer the dough into a bowl and coat well with little oil.
• Cover and give it resting time of at least 3 hours.
• Heat up 4 tsp oil in a pan.
• Add cumin seeds, bay leaves and onion.
• Mix well and fry until onion turns light golden for about 5-6 minutes.
• Add tomato, ginger garlic paste, coriander powder, bedgi chili powder, kitchen king masala, cumin powder and turmeric powder. Mix well.
• Cover and cook until tomatoes are cooked soft for about 5-6 minutes. Tomato must be mashed well with onion.
• If you feel masala is getting dry, sprinkle some water, cover and cook again.
• Add boiled chole, salt to taste and mix well. You can add more water to adjust consistency.
• Cover and cook on medium heat for about 7-8 minutes.
• Turn off the gas and chole masala is already.
• Take the dough and knead it once more.
• Make small balls of dough. Make the balls nice and soft.
• Roll bhature a little bigger that puri with the help of rolling board and pin.
• Heat up oil in a pan and drop the plain side of bhature first in oil.
• Let it puff up and flip over.
• Fry from other side as well and take the bhatura out of oil, drain excess oil and transfer it into a plate.
• Bhature are already.