Chana Bhatura

Chana/Chole bhatura is a combination of chole (spicy chick peas) and fried bread called bhatoora (made of maida flour)
It is a heavy breakfast which is generally accompanied with lassi. Chole bhature are served with onions, carrot pickle, green chutney and achaar. Chole Bhature is a breakfast invented in Delhi  and now a days, it is popular breakfast around north-west India and other parts of the Country.
Chholay are sold as snack food and street food


Bhatura is a fluffy deep-fried leavened bread from North India. It is often eaten with chickpea curry, chole or channe, making the traditional dish chole bhature.

Ingredients Bhatura

A typical recipe includes white flour (maida), yogurt, ghee or oil, and either yeast or baking powder. Once kneaded well, the dough is left to rise, and then small balls of it are either hand-rolled or flattened using a rolling pin. Then the bread pieces are deep fried until they puff up into a lightly browned, soft, fluffy bread, which is elastic and chewy.

All purpose Flour(maida): 4cups

Clarified butter(ghee): 1sp

Yeast: 1tsp

sugar: 1sp

Water: 1cup

Yogurt: 1/2 cup

Oil for Deep frying

Procedure:

• Mix Maida with ghee to form crumbs then add salt & Yogurt 
• Dissolve Sugar in 5sps lukewarm water & add yeast leave for 2-3 min
• Then add this to the dough mixture mix & add 1 cup water
• Form a soft dough leave to rise for 1hr
• Then knead well & divide into 3 parts
• Make Big size poori
• Take Oil in Deep dish(Kadai) & heat it fry the poori pressing it gently
• You will see it rising Nicely....fry both sides
• Remove on an Absorbent paper

Note: You can use baking power instead of Yeast & make bhatura 

         The Poori you make must be Thick for it to puff up

Ingredients chana Masala

Chana Masala  Along with chickpeas, the ingredients typically include onion, chopped tomatoes, coriander seed, garlic, chillies, ginger, dried mango powder crushed pomegranate seed (anardana) and garam masala. It is fairly dry and spicy with a sour citrus note

Soaked Chickpea: 2cups

Onion: 2

Tomato: 2

Gingergarlic paste: 1sp

Coriender powder: 1sp

Garam masala: 1sp

Amchur(dried mango powder): 1sp

Redchili powder: 1+1/2 sps

or (Everest chole masala: 2sps optional)

Oil: 2-3 sps

Salt to taste

Cilantro for garnising

Procedure

• I have Used Pressure Cooker to make this Chana Masala
• (You can Pre boil Chana in Cooker for 5-6 visels & proceed with the following in kadai)
• Add Oil in pressure cooker, saute Onions chopped till light golden
• Add ginger garlic paste, fry add chopped Tomatoes fry till mushy
• Add salt to taste & all Masalas or else You can Omit these & add Everest Chole masala Instead
• Fry the masalas & Add Soaked Chana (Chick peas) Mix everything add 2 cups water 
• Pressure cook for 5-6 vissels

If Making in Kadai add cooked Chana with 2 cups water & boil for 5-10 min

Garnish with cilantro....

Serve hot Chana Masala with Puffed up Bhatura