White chana. It has white flowers with blue, violet, or pink veins. Several varieties of chickpea are cultivated throughout the world. Desi chana closely resembles both seeds found on archaeological sites and the wild plant ancestor of domesticated chickpeas, Cicer reticulatum, which only grows in southeast Turkey, where chickpeas are believed to have.
Both the words "Chana" and "Chole" refer to chickpeas.
In Hindi language, the word "Masala" means a mixture of spices.
White chole is a popular chole (white kabuli chana) recipe with a difference.
You can cook White chana using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of White chana
- You need 1 bowl of boiled white chole.
- Prepare 2-3 of onion.
- Prepare 2 of tomatoes.
- Prepare 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste.
- Prepare 3 of green chilli.
- You need To taste of salt.
- You need 1 tsp of turmeric powder.
- Prepare Half of tsp black pepper and red chilli powder.
- You need As needed of water and ghee.
The white chole or kabuli chanas are cooked with onion, ginger, garlic, spices and coconut milk to create a culinary delight. Add a teaspoon of the green and sweet chutney on the top and serve the white chole garnished with coriander leaves. Add your private note A spicy and tempting curry is prepared from white chickpeas (kabuli chana), tomatoes, onion and basic Indian spices and best enjoyed with bhatura (deep fried puffed Indian bread) as evening snack or dinner. Grind onion, tomato, ginger, garlic, and chile pepper together in a food processor into a paste.
White chana step by step
- Take a grinder jar add onion, tomato,green chilli and grind it.
- Heat ghee in a cooker add grind paste and saute it then add ginger garlic paste.
- Add all spices and mix it well.
- Then add chole and water and 2-3 whistles it.
- Now serve it.
The Garbanzo or Kabuli chana variety that are white in colour are cultivated extensively in India and Italy. The one more super popular variety is Kala Chana or desi chana, which looks black, dried and shriveled. It is available in small globules and it is hulled and split to make it into chana dal. Chana masala recipe - Chana masala is a delicious & flavorful Indian curry made by cooking chickpeas in a spicy onion tomato masala gravy. It can be eaten with basmati rice, roti, naan, poori, Bhatura and plain parathas or even with flavored rice like jeera rice or ghee rice.
