Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, black chana curry. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This delicious Black Chana Masala is an easy to make chickpea curry made with black chickpeas. It's bursting with flavor and is a healthy Meatless Monday vegetarian dinner recipe. Kala chana curry is a mildly spiced and thin black chickpeas curry made in Punjabi style. Black Chickpeas Curry Black Chickpeas or ' Varutharacha Kadala Curry' is a traditional curry of black chickpeas (chana) cooked in a toasted/roasted coconut spice paste.
Black chana curry is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Black chana curry is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook black chana curry using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Black chana curry:
- Prepare For boiling chana
- Prepare 1 bowl black chickpeas
- Get 4 tsp oil Cooking
- Prepare To taste salt
- Make ready 1 dal chini(cinnemom stick)
- Prepare For making tadka
- Make ready 2 big tomatoes
- Make ready 2 onion
- Prepare 6-8 Garlic pods
- Make ready 1 inch ginger
- Take 2 Green chilli
- Take 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Get To taste salt
- Get 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Make ready 1/2 tsp coriander seeds powder
Black Gram Curry is a very nutritious dish, where black chickpeas are made with curd and gram flour to enhance the taste. The gravy is little sour in taste which blends very well with kala chana or desi chana and gives a nice flavour to dish. Kala Chana Masala or Black Chickpea Curry is a delicious, spicy, flavourful and very popular dish and forms essential part of the North Indian Cuisine. Kala Chana Masala is made by cooking boiled chickpeas in tomato gravy and spices.
Steps to make Black chana curry:
- Wash and Soak black chana for 4 hours.
- After 4 hours pressure cook chana till 7-8 minutes after first whistle. Switch off the flame and let pressure releases automatical. Check chana by pressing between your fingers if it's done.
- Wash, peel and chop onion, green chilli, ginger, garlic and tomato and grind in a mixer to a smooth paste.
- Now heat cooking oil in a karahi. Add cumin seeds and when cumin seeds and grinded paste and cook it on slow flame till it leaves the karahi. It may take 8-10 minutes. Now Add salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, coriander seeds powder and mix well.
- Now pour this prepared masala in pressure cooker in which boiled chana is. Adjust the consistency of curry by adding water if needed. Now place the lid and pressure cook till 7-8 whistles and switch off the flame.
- Serve hot with chapatti, rice or puri.
Kala Chana Masala or Black Chickpea Curry is a delicious, spicy, flavourful and very popular dish and forms essential part of the North Indian Cuisine. Kala Chana Masala is made by cooking boiled chickpeas in tomato gravy and spices. This dish is often cooked during Navratras, an Indian festival. Kala chana recipe - black chickpeas cooked with onions, tomatoes and spices. Kala chana are the desi variety of chickpeas that are brown to black in color.
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