Achaari Chole Pulao
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 3-4
 
Ingredients
  • ½ cup chole (chickpeas) soaked overnight or minimum for 6 hours.
  • 160 grams long grain basmati rice (soaked for 30 minutes).
  • 100 grams onions sliced lengthwise
  • 2 green chilies slit lengthwise
  • 2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
  • 1 large (black) cardamom
  • 6-7 cloves
  • 2 tsp cumin seeds
  • 4 small (green) cardamom
  • 2 and ½ tsp red chili powder
  • 1 and ½ tsp garam masala powder
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 2 tsp panch phoran powder
  • Ghee.
  • Salt
Instructions
  1. Pressure Cook chickpeas in a pressure cooker with 2 cups of water and 1 tsp salt.
  2. We must pressure cook on medium flame until 3-4 whistles.
  3. Heat 4 tbsp ghee (clarified butter) in a pan.
  4. Put black cardamom, cloves, green cardamom, cumin seeds in the pan.
  5. We will fry until cloves and black cardamom get puffed.
  6. Add green chilies and onions. Fry onions until they become soft.
  7. After 2 minutes of frying on medium flame, onions become soft.
  8. Now add ginger-garlic paste and fry until raw smell from the paste disappears.
  9. Fry ginger-garlic paste for 2 minutes on medium flame.
  10. Now add turmeric powder, garam masala powder,Panch Phoran powder, red chili powder.Stir in the ingredients.
  11. Now add boiled chickpeas, and mix it well.
  12. Now add ¼th cup water, salt to taste.Mix them nicely.
  13. Cook the chickpeas covered for 3 minutes.After 3 minutes, add soaked rice, 2 and ½ cup water
  14. Allow the rice to boil on medium flame.
  15. As rice begins to boil, lower the flame.
  16. Cover and cook the rice until it is completely cooked.
  17. Rice gets cooked in 10 minutes.Cooking time may vary depending upon the quality of rice and the soaking time.
  18. Achaari Chole Pulao can be relished with curd or raita .
Recipe by Kali Mirch - by Smita at https://kalimirchbysmita.com/achaari-chole-pulao/