Black chana masala

Yummy and tasty chana masala, try once and relish this north indian dish which is so chatpata and masaledar . The dish is so easy to make yet so flavorful.

• Ingredients:

1. Black gram(soaked overnight) -250 grms.
2. Onions-4 to 5 .
3. green chilly- 3 to 4.
4. Garam masala- 2 table spoon.
5. Red chilly powder- 1 table spoon.
6. Dhania Powder- 1 & 1/2 table spoon.
7. refined Oil-2 to 3 tabel spoon.
8. Salt.
9. Coriander leaves.

• Recipe.

Soak black grams overnight or for upto 5-6 hrs. Chop onions into long pieces Now heat a pressure cooker and add refined oil into it once heated add the chopped onions to it. Stir till it become translucent, now add chilies slitted into half , now add all the masalas listed above.saute well and let it fry for some time on sim flame so that the masalas fry well and u can see oil above the masala. Now add black gram and salt to it. Stir for 3-4 minutes. Now add water to it. The level of water should be so that its atleast  half inch above the black grams. Now close the lid and let it get 10-11 whistles.Open the cooker and check whether the grams are properly cooked and the water is dried if not can put on 1-2 more whistles. Now chop coriander leaves and put on it and enjoy your black chana masala with poori, paratha or roti . In my case i can eat 2 bowls of it without any other thing as it in itself is so fulfulling and tasty.

  Happy Cooking,

Noopur.