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In a big vessel pour water, add eating soda and salt. Now add kabuli channa and rajma. Soak this over night. |
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Next morning in that same water drop a small pouch (potali) containing tea leaves. |
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Cook this chana, rajma mix along with tea leaves pouch till channa and rajma becomes soft. When cooked discard the tea leaves pouch. |
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Prepare a another dry-wet paste out of cloves, cinnamon (dalchini), black pepper, two green chillies and ginger. |
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Mix this dry-wet fine paste with cooked channa and rajma. Take care that this masala is just mixed not kept in flame. |
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Take an iron kadhai (iron kadhai will give a special flavour) or a deep pan. Pour left- out water from cooked channa and rajma, now keep the pan to flame. |
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Now add that dry Masala, garam masala, annardana paste, aamchur powder, black pepper powder to that left-out water. Sim down the flame to in between low and warm. |
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Cook all ingredients till water evaporates and masala stick to the channa and rajma. This is very very important for next step. |
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In the pan itself spread the cooked chhole to corners, make a space in center of pan. |
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In a separate regular pan heat ghee till you see smoke and your smoke alarms you. |
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Pour this ghee in the (made) center space in iron deep pan, and cover it with chhole. Warm it with closed lid for a while. |
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Decorate with slices of potato, tomatoes and long cut green chilli. |