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Chana Pher Badal Recipe
Chickpeas done in various ways - morels stuffed with smoked yoghurt, chickpeas in blackened spices and a tangy chaat.
- Total Cook Time 50 mins
- Prep Time 10 mins
- Cook Time 40 mins
- Medium
Ingredients of Chana Pher Badal
- 4 large size morels (gucchi)
- 1/2 cup hung yogurt
- 3/4 cup chick pea (chana), boiled
- 2 Tbsp chaat masala
- 1 Tbsp Himalayan rock salt (kala namak)
- 1 Tbsp dry anardana
- 1 Tbsp degi mirch powder
- 1 Tbsp dry ginger powder
- 2 Tbsp coriander powder
- 5 Tbsp cumin powder
- 1 Tbsp garam masala powder
- 6-8 green chillies, chopped
- Salt to taste
- 100 g onions, chopped
- 3 Tbsp ginger, chopped
- 4 Tbsp coriander, chopped
- 3 Tbsp mint, chopped
- 1/2 cup ghee
- 1 Tbsp cloves
- 1 Tbsp cumin seeds
- 1 Tbsp kasoori methi
- 1 Tbsp black pepper powder
- 1 Tbsp coriander powder
- 1 1/2 Tbsp coriander seeds
- 100 g potato, boiled
- 2 lemons
- 6-8 semolina golgappas
- 3 Tbsp fresh chives (for garnish)
- For chutney:
- 1/2 cup tamarind
- 1/4 cup jaggery
- 3 Tbsp fennel seeds (saunf)
- Salt to taste
How to Make Chana Pher Badal
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Soak the gucchi in the water. After it is done, wash it several times in running water so all the dust is washed out.
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Take some hung yogurt in a bowl and place a smaller bowl with burnt charcoal within, with a drop of ghee and close it for a couple of minutes.
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Mix this with 1/2 cup boiled chickpeas till it is made as a smooth paste. Add the dry spices, 3-4 green chillies and season with the salt. Stuff this mixture in the gucchi and keep aside.
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Take some of the boiled chickpeas and add to it some onions, green chilli, ginger, fresh
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coriander, mint, dry spices, anardana power and ghee and make it in the form of a cake. Keep this aside.
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Prepare a Kala Masala (blackened spice mix) with cloves, cumin seeds, kasoori methi, black
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pepper powder and coriander powder, which is first broiled and then powdered. Use this spice
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mix to crust the chana cakes just before cooking.
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Take another bowl and add some chickpeas, onions, ginger, green chillies, anardana, 3 tbsp
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cumin powder, coriander seeds, rock salt and boiled potatoes. Mix it well and squeeze a
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lemon and fill in the gol gappa shell.
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Now on the griddle heat the chana cakes and the gucchi till it gets crisp and done.
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Garnish with fresh chives.
For the Chutney:
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Boil the tamarind along with jaggery, fennel and salt. Post boil, sieve the same.