Cholay kulcha- delicious Indian street food

CHOLAY KULCHA

Well presenting to you an indian dish categorized as a street food !!

Ingredients:

Serves 4-5

1 1/2 cup Cholay

2 big sized onions ( chopped finely)

3 tablespoon tomato purée( grated tomatoes)

1/2 red chilli powder

1/2 coriander powder

1/2 teaspoon garam masala

6 cups of water

1/2 cup tamarind

pinch of cumin seeds ( jeera)

5 tablespoon refined oil

salt to taste

For garnish

4 mango pickle

1 grated onion

4 tablespoon lemon juice

4 green chillies

Method :

1. Soak cholay in 3 cups of water for 8 hours

2. In cooker, add cholay,the water in which they were soaked, extra 3 cups of water and salt.After 1 whistle simmer it for 15 minutes.Then switch off the gas and keep it aside.

3. In kadai, add oil, jeera.When it starts popping add onions and sauté until golden brown.On low flame  Add red chilli powder,coriander powder.

4 Add tomato purée. Mix well until you get a nice maroon colour.Switch off the gas.

5.When the cooker cools off completely with no pressure in it,open it and separate its water in a bowl.Let the cholay stay there in the cooker.Check the softness of the cholay.

6. On high flame, add the tadka you made in  kadai into the cooker and mix well with the cholay.

7.When the cholay starts sticking to the bottom add a little water from the bowl that you separated earlier.

8.Repeat step 7 until the water finishes in the bowl but don't keep on repeating this step if the cholay are way too soft and are sticking to each other.

9. Take tamarind in a small bowl and add little lukewarm water in it. Mix well until the you get nice tamarind paste.

9. Add garam masala and tamarind paste you just made.

10.Taste and check the flavour.

11.In a bowl add the dish, add little lemon juice on the top,grated onions at the centre and a mango pickle and green chilli at the side.

12. Serve hot. :)