Recipe: Eating on a Dime Matar Ke Chole Kulche

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Recipe: Eating on a Dime Matar Ke Chole Kulche Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Matar Ke Chole Kulche. Since Matar Kulcha is a semi-liquid dish you can eat them as matar ke chole chaat. It's a popular Delhi chaat, also known as matra sold by street food vendors. Matra is served with readymade kulcha bread.

A flavorsome green chutney , pickled vegetables , grated radish, and mirch ki tapori served alongside the plate of chole kulche gives the purest outburst of flavors in each bite.

Protein and Vitamins enriched matar chole make a perfect combo with kulcha, bhatura, naan or chapatti.

You can also prepare them with little gravy and serve as chole chaat.

You can have Matar Ke Chole Kulche using 31 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Matar Ke Chole Kulche

  1. It’s 2 Cups of For Kulcha- All Purpose Flour(maida).

  2. Prepare 1/4 cup of Curd.

  3. You need 1 tsp of Baking powder.

  4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Baking Soda.

  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Salt.

  6. Prepare 1 tsp of Sugar.

  7. You need of Oil 4 tbsp (3 tbsp while kneading +1 tbsp after kneading).

  8. It’s of Warm Water 1/2 cup (or little less).

  9. You need of For Matar.

  10. It’s of Matar (Peas) / Matar ke chole 2 cups. / (frozen matar).

  11. You need of Onion 1 sliced.

  12. It’s of Tomato 1 finely chopped.

  13. You need of Ginger 1 tsp finely chopped.

  14. Prepare of Green Chilli 2 finely chopped.

  15. Prepare 1 tsp of Cumin.

  16. It’s of Red chilli 1/2 tsp or to taste.

  17. You need 1/8 tsp of Asafoetida (Hing).

  18. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Turmeric powder.

  19. It’s 1/2 tsp of Coriander Powder.

  20. Prepare 1.5 tsp of Dried Mango Powder.

  21. It’s 1/2 cup of Tamarind Pulp.

  22. You need 2 tbsp of Oil.

  23. You need of Other ingredients-.

  24. You need of Onion 2 finely chopped.

  25. You need of Tomato 1 finely chopped.

  26. Prepare 1/4 tsp of Black Pepper Powder.

  27. It’s to taste of Red Chilli.

  28. Prepare 1 tsp of Roasted Cumin Powder.

  29. It’s 1 tsp of Chaat Masala.

  30. It’s as needed of Tamarind Pulp.

  31. Prepare of Coriander leaves 1/2 cup finely chopped.

So, here let's start making spicy tangy matar chole. हिन्दी में पढिये : Matar ke Chole - Matar Gughni Recipe - Matar Chole for Kulcha The kulcha chole is made with cooked white chana or white matar with a whole load of spices, onions and tomatoes.

The white chane ke chole is served with hot kulchas in the streets of Delhi.

Kulcha chole is a spicy thick side dish with a dash of tamarind chutney to give it a tangy flavour, and the onions make it crunchy and delicious to eat.

Do not separate the water from chole before mashing.

Matar Ke Chole Kulche instructions

  1. For Kulcha Take all the dry ingredients mentioned for kulcha in a mixing bowl and mix them well..

  2. Now add Curd and 3 tbsp oil to it and start kneading the dough. Add water little by little and prepare a soft dough..

  3. For final finishing take remaining 1 tbsp of oil and apply on all the side and cover the dough with a samp cloth. Let the dough rest for an hour..

  4. After an hour heat skillet / Tawa on a low to medium heat. Take a dough ball andatart rolling into round or desired shape. You can apply sesame seeds (Til) / nigella (kalonji) on it..

  5. Now apply water on side and put it on low flamed tawa (wet side down on tawa) with in few seconds it will start turning up showing bubbles /puff on upper side..

  6. You can flip the side and check if down, turn it over and cook from another side. It will take 1-2 minutes. Now apply some butter on tawa and sprinkle some chopped coriander leaves on it and genlty press kulcha on it.It will give a nice look to it.

Kulcha is ready to serve with Matar ke chole..

  1. For Matar Chaat

If you are using Dry matar then soak it overnight or for (6-8 hours) and then just pressure cook with one whistle with 1/2 tsp of salt and turmeric powder..

  1. If you are using matar then directly pressure cook them for 2 whistles..

  2. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan. Add cumin to it. when cumin starts spluttering add onions to it and saute it..

  3. Add ginger, green chilli and saute it for a minute. Now add all the spices, tomato and cook it until tomatoes gets tender. Add tamarind pulp and matar to it..

  4. Let it simmer for few minutes until it absorbs all the water..

  5. Now let it cool down. When it gets cool add onion, tomato, coriander, Black Pepper Powder, Red Chilli, Roasted Cumin Powder,Chaat Masala,Tamarind Pulp as needed and mix them well..

  6. Matar ke chole is ready to serve with Kulchas..

Transfer the chole in a large bowl and add in chopped onions and tomatoes along with chaat masala, salt, red chilli powder and lemon juice.

Toast kulchas on a hot tawa with some butter and your chole kulche are ready to serve!

The word Matar in hindi means peas.

In this recipe the peas that are used are dried white peas. the same peas is used in making ragda of ragda pattice or ragda chaat or masala puri.

And kulcha is a leavened flatbread made without yeast.