Channa Battura

Ingredients:

• For puri :
• Maidha 1/2 kg
• Butter or dalda 100gm
• Baking soda 1 pinch
• Curds 1 cup
• For Channa / Chole
• 1 cup soaked white channa
• 2 potato
• 2 onion
• 1 piece of ginger
• 1 small lemon size tamarind
• 1 spoon mustard seeds
• 1 spoon red chilly powder
• 1/2 sp turmeric powder
• 1 spoon garam masala powder
• 1 pinch backing soda
• 1 small piece of jaggery
• salt to taste
• oil to make seasoning

Method:

• In a big plate, put baking soda and butter and mix it well for about 5 to 10 min.
• then add salt and maidha
• Mix them well and slowly add curds and mix well like roti dough
• Keep aside for about 4 to 6 hours in a wet cloth.
• then make big big puries i.e. Batura
• How to make channa :
• In a cooker, cook soaked channa and potatoes with salt and backing powder.
• take 2 spoons of cooked channa with onion and ginger.
• grind them like a fine paste.
• In a pan pour oil and make seasoning with mustard seeds
• put the ground paste and fry it well.
• Now add redchilly powder tamarind powder and mix well.
• Now add tamarind water and allow it to boil.
• Now add cooked channa and potato pieces.
• Allow it to boil for a while.
• Now add garam masala and jaggery.
• Allow it to become some what thick in consistency.
• Remove from the fire.
• Serve Channa with Battura.

Notes:

• You can add chopped onion and tomato while serving channa.
• Also you can decorate it with coriander leaves.
• If you want you can keep a piece of lemon with the dish.