Here I am giving you another way of doing chole without using tomatoes.

Ingredients

Cooked chole(chick pieces)  – 1 cup

Onion  – 2 nos

Imli – 1 big gooseberry size

Chilli powder 1/2 tsp

Powder 1

1. Clove – 5-6 nos

2. Cinnamon bark – 1 inch piece

3. Badi elachi – 2nos

Warm the above ingredients and powder it

Powder 2

1 coriander seeds – 1tsp

2 cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp

3 pepper -1/4 tsp

Dry roast the above ingredients and make them into a powder

Powder 3

Sonuf – 1 tsp

Methi seeds – 1/2 tsp

Dry roast the above ingredients and make them into a powder

Procedure

- Soak the chick peas overnight or for atleast 6-7 hours and pressure cook by adding salt , tea bag, 2 bay leaves.  If you don’t prefer to use tea bags and bay leaves you can cook the chick peas by adding powdered kalongi.  All this is optional, it is just to give chenna the brown color.

-Mince the onion and soak the imli in a small quantity of water and strain it .

-In a thick bottomed pan add 4 tsp of oil and fry the onion till it is golden brown,  then add powder 1, powder 2,  1/2 tsp chilly powder  and the cooked chick peas and cook for 5 minutes.

-Once again pressure cook this mixture for 5 to 6 whistles in high flames.

-After the cooker gets released  smash the chole little bit , add the tamarind water boil it for 5 minutes.

-Finally add powder 3 and allow it to froth and switch off the stove.  Garnish it with coriander.  Serve it along with raw onion.

This method of doing the chole is the courtesy of my friend Mrs Revathy Vijayaragavan residing at Delhi.  It came out really well.  Try it out and post your comments.