kabuli chana curry || how to prepare kabuli chana curry at home

Kabuli chana curry with step by pics and tips(will share video soon).Kabuli chana / garbanzo beans curry is very tasty and aromatic with freshly prepared homemade masala(chole masala). It is very easy to prepare restaurant style curry at home. Once you try it at home, you never order it again from out. 

Do check kabuli chana curry video recipe in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/1skbakUNx2U 

Jeera rice recipe in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/GZVaTnMqvIQ

Today i am explaining the simple and easy to prepare kabuli chana curry recipe with easily available ingredients from our pantry. Kabuli chana is contain high fiber, it is good for digestion. It is protien rich and healthy, good to use it in our regular recipes. It is gravy based curry which goes well with flavored rice like jeera rice(video) ghee rice, carrot rice, pudina rice.  I always love to have it with roti's or paratha's like garlic lachha paratha, plain lachha parathas with some raita like pomegranate raita 😋.  Do subscribe my youtube channel for video recipes.

Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this easy and healthy Dry fruits lassi to FoodieMondayBloghop fb groups #252ChanaTime theme. By this time you are all aware that i am part of this lovely group where we bloggers share recipe for theme suggested by a person in alphabetical order every week. This week theme is suggested by Mayuri di , who blogs at mayuris-jikoni . She is very talented chef, i love all her recipes and mainly the way di gives full information about her recipe. Bookmarked few recipes from her space to try soon, eggless pear upside down cake, herbal spicy tea, Lavendar lemon panna cotta. Do check out mayuri di's spaces for amazing recipes.                                        

  

    

                                                               Kabuli chana curry 

Preparation time - 20 to 30 minutes

Serves : 4

Category : curry 

Recipe Cuisine: Indian 

Main ingredients : kabuli chana 

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

   

Ingredients

kabuli chana - 1 cup

onion - 2 big 

tomatoes - 2 small or 1 big

cashew nuts/ kaju - 5

coriander leaves - 2 tsp 

oil - 4 tsp

cumin seeds -1 tsp

salt - as per taste

ginger - 1 inch

red chili powder - 1 tsp

turmeric powder -1/4 tsp

kasuri methi - 1/2 tsp(optional)

fresh cream - 2 tsp (optional, i used milk malai /pala megada)

For chole masala

corinader seeds - 1 tsp

cumin seeds - 1 tsp

elachi -2

cloves -4

cinnamon stick - 1 inch

bay leaf - 1

pepper corns - 5

mace /  javithri - 1

fennel seeds / saunf - 1 tsp

Instructions

1) Wash twice and soak kabuli chana 8 hours or over night. Pressure cook it by adding 2 glasses of water and 1 tsp of salt.  Boil kabuli chana for 5 whistles on high flames and 3 whistle on low flames.(** check tips)

                                      

2)Heat a pan add coriander seeds, fry it well on low flames. When it starts changing color(it takes not more than minute), then add all remaining spices mentioned in chole masala list in ingredients. Fry everything well, take into plate and let it cool. Grind all fried spices to fine powder and keep it aside.

3) Heat a pan add 4 tsp of oil, add 1 tsp of cumin seeds fry well, then add finely chopped onions mix well till it changes color. Now add ginger paste(you can also add ginger garlic paste too) fry well.

4) Now add 2 tsp prepared chole masala(adjust) or ready made chole masala or garam masala(i taste different), red chili powder, turmeric powder and salt mix everything well.

5) Finely chop onions and keep it aside, add chopped tomatoes & cashew nuts/ kaju in a mixer jar and grind it fine paste.

6) Add prepared tomato & kaju puree cook it on low flames, till oil oozes out.

7) Now add boiled kabuli chana and its water mix well.

8) close the lid and boil it for 5 minutes, you can see the oil that oozes out on curry.

9) If you feel gravy is too thick add some more water, kasuri methi , cream or milk malai and mix well.

10) Add 1/2 cup of water and boil till gravy becomes thick, at last add coriander leaves that's it our kabuli chana curry is ready. 

Serve it with some onions and lemons pieces. I served this as sides for jeera rice(video). 

Tips

** Make sure that kabuli chana boiled well, you can add pinch of cooking soda. Kabuli chana cook smoothly by adding cooking soda, i did not used it.

** You can add ginger garlic paste too.

** You can used ready made chole masala or you can also add garam masala.

** you can skip adding cream or milk malai.

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Eggless Basbousa || Eggless Semolina coconut cake in kadai || How to prepare famous Middle Eastern Dessert Basbousa in kadai

Basbousa / Semolina coconut cake in kadai, it is traditional Middle Eastern sweet cake that is originated in Egypt. Semolina coconut cake video in my youtube channel and recipe here with step by step pics and tips, 

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 It is delectable, juicy & melt in mouth cake which is prepared by semolina, coconut and sugar syrup. We can prepare sugar syrup by adding cinnamon stick or rose petal/ rose water or lemon juice and lemon zest or orange juice and orange zest. Desiccated coconut added in it gives good taste to cake. Today i prepared sugar syrup by adding cinnamon stick. After preparing cake we pour sugar syrup on cake and generally cut cake into diamond shape. Or we can cut it before preparing cake too. As i am preparing cake in kadai, thought not to try that. Almond are decorated on top while baking, i decorated cake with almonds after demolding. I did few changes as i am baking in kadai, if you are baking in oven you can try like above. Do try this simple cake surely you will love it. 

Do check some cakes recipes..

** Strawberry choco chip cake

** multigrain banana bread

** Rava chocolate cake 

** Wheat flour carrot cake

** Bourbon biscuit cake(youtube)

**Bourbon biscuit cake(blog link)

** Mango rose cake

Taking this cake recipe to  #FoodieMondayBloghop fb group's #251 #RavaRaaga theme.  Here every week one member from group in alphabetical order will suggest 2 themes, others will vote. High voted theme will be selected, everyone prepare recipes according to theme. And on some special occasions we all will prepare recipes with out theme. For #251 week i got chance to  suggest theme, --> "prepare any recipe using any variety semolina" theme is selected by blogger friends, waiting for yummy recipes from my blogger friends. How is my drawing for theme friends 😍. 

 

                                  

  

    

                  Basbousa || Middle East  Semolina coconut cake 

Preparation time - 15 minutes

cook Time : 45 minutes

Serves : 1 cake

Category : Cakes 

Recipe Cuisine: Middle east ||Egypt

Main ingredients : Semolina, coconut

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

   

Ingredients

For cake

Semolina - 1 1/2 glass or 3/4 cup

desiccated coconut - 1 small cup

curd - 1 small cup

milk - 3/4 to 1 glass

butter - 2 tsp

vegetable / neutral oil / cooking oil - 1/2 glass(small, adjust)

 powdered sugar - 3/4 cup (as we use sugar syrup on cake i am using less sugar , we can use 1 cup)

baking soda - 1/2 tsp

baking powder - 1 tsp

vanilla essence - 1 tsp

For sugar syrup

Sugar - 1/4 to 1/2 cup

water - 1/2 cup

cinnamon stick - 1/2 inch

rose water or rose petals - optional (i did not used)

Others

Kadai  or pressure cooker 

stand

salt - 1/2 cup

tooth pick - 1 

Instructions

1)  Heat kadai by adding salt and by placing stand on medium flames till we prepare batter.

                               

2) Take a wide bowl, add melted butter, oil, curd, powdered sugar, vanilla essence mix well. 

3) Take round or square cake tin add 1 tsp oil spread it well, place butter paper on it and keep it aside. If you d't have butter paper sprinkle some sooji/ maida / wheat flour inside tin & spread it evenly.

4) Now add dry ingredients, semolina, desiccated coconut, baking powder and baking soda one after other to the above mixture.

5) Pour little by little to the above and mix well, batter should not be thick or thin it should be pouring consistency.

6) immediately place the tin in preheated kadai, close the lid. At first bake it on medium to high flames for 5 minutes. Later reduce flames to low and bake it for 35 minutes.

7) Meanwhile prepare sugar syrup,  you can skip sugar syrup if you d't like much sugar in cake, then it will be normal semolina coconut cake. Take 1/2 sugar and 1/2 cup of water in a pan, 1 inch cinnamon stick and boil, till sugar dissolves. Switch off the flames and let it cool.

8) After 35 minutes open the open the lid and insert tooth pick in it, if it comes out clearly without any batter then our cake is ready. If you see batter on tooth pick, close the lid and cook 10 more minutes on medium flames and then check again. Make sure that cake is not burning.

9) Take cake tin outside and let it cool, later keep some holes on cake using tooth pick, so that cake will absorb sugar syrup.  Now pour sugar syrup in two to three batches on cake and let it aside for 30 minutes.( Do not add too much syrup you can not demold cake.

10) Now scratch cake tin sides using knife and place plate on tin reverse it carefully and tap on tin. Cake will come out easily, remove butter paper.

11) Our basbousa is ready, cut cake into diamond or square shape & decorate it with grated almonds or pistachios or fried almonds and coconut as per your availability and wish. You can also pour remaining sugar syrup on cake to make it more juicy. I do not like sweet that much, so the quantity i added is perfect for my cake. Some portion sugar syrup still is remaining, i will it while preparing tea.

                

                       

Tips

** Make sure that kadai or pressure cooker is preheat.

** Use fine quality semolina, if your semolina is not fine, you do not get perfect cake texture.

** Use fresh curd, curd is replacement to eggs.

** Batter should not be too thick or thin.

** If baking soda not available then skip it.

** Make sure that tin is coated with oil well/ otherwise cake will break while demolding.

** If you d't have cake tin use any tiffin box.

** Do not forgot to make holes on cakes using only tooth pick or that size material, so that cake absorb sugar syrup and make cake more juicy.

** Adjust sugar quantity according to your taste.

** You can add lemon or orange  juice and lemon or orange zest in sugar syrup. You can also add rose water or dried rose petals while boiling sugar syrup. 

** If you are using pressure cooker then make sure to remove cookers whistle and gasket.(below pic is my Rava chocolate cake small portion of batter i baked in pressure cooker).

           

** Do not heat kadai/ cooker too long time or on high flames as cake will become hard.

** Do not be panic if you are cake is ready after 40 minute, just bake it for some more time by increasing its flame very bit.

** Do not open lid in middle while baking as you do not get fluffy cake.

Also check other related recipes by clicking the link below the pic..

                               

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                              Bourbon Biscuit cake || youtube bourbon biscuit cake


                       

multigrain banana bread

                     Rava chocolate cake 

                 Wheat flour carrot cake

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