Chickpeas curry – Sanagalu

Well, I should admit, this curry was one which was a disaster  for 3 times…well, not a biiig disaster as it was still edible and tasty enough but the look was Phew!! Yesterday, I just tried it and it came wonderfully delicious, both looks wise and taste wise….so finally Succeeded!! Here is the recipe.

What You Need :

• Chick peas – 1 can of boiled ones/1 cup raw chickpeas
• Tomatoes – 2 big ones
• Onions – 1 big one or 2 medium sized ones
• Garlic cloves – 2/3 finely chopped [optional, i dint use it]
• Green chillies – 3/4 diagonally cut
• Cinnamon and nut meg powder – to taste a pinch each
• Cardamom – 1 or 2 if wanted [optional]
• Tadka ingridients – 1 tsp
• Oil – 2 tsp
• lime juice/lemon – few drops to garnish
• Salt – to taste.

How to make?

• Soak the raw chickpeas overnight [8hrs generally] or boil them in pressure cooker!
• Take a pan, heat oil in it and put tadka ingridients
• After mustard seeds pop, add onions, green chillies, garlic and saute till onions are translucent.
• Add cinnamom, nutmeg and cardamom now and add tomatoes 
• Now add salt and if required, masala powder, and simmer for about 5mins
• Now add the chickpeas along with the water which remained after boiling.
• Keep the flame low and cover with lid to cook. Stir ocassionally!
• Garnish with Coriander and lemon and serve hot with Poori or Chapathi or any kind of indian bread! 

or if you added less chilli, u can eat it directly….it would be near to something called Sundal then…Sundal can be made from any sort of sprouts . I did not use any readymade masala powders here and this taste Ohh I love it and I bet you wont find any difference when eating with roti or chawal!

Chickpeas especially are very good foe pure vegetarians since its a huge rich source of Proteins,and I recommend they should have them in their diet! 

Yum YUm….I loved it totally and it tastes really nice even though we dont add the cholle masala…..and i discovered that adding chole masala more gives the dark sort of look to chole which I was considering as a disaster before.

I like it red and yellow , if you want it a little towards brown, add a tsp of chole/chana masala to it before salt.

This entry is going to JFI-Chickpea event hosted by Sometime Foodie . Click on logo for details.

Hey guess what, i gotta an idea….isnt this yellow enough to send it to FIC??? Ya na….okie dokie….off it goes to FIC – YELLOW hosted by my fav Sunshinemom !!! 

And while linking it to Wiki, I just found out its a legume too….so its also to My Legume Love affair hosted by Valli.

Thats it for today….I shall soon come back and make the actual recipe for Sundal too!

Love

Me 😀