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From: Sujata Prakash <prakash@server.uwindsor.ca>
Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
Subject: Channa Masala
Message-ID: <CtFMxn.296@uwindsor.ca>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 00:18:05 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
The recipe I'm posting will have some Indian names for spices, as I don't
know the English equivalent for some Indian spices. But, you could get these
spices from any Indian grocery store.
Channa masala takes a while to prepare.
1. Soak two cups chick peas (garbanzo beans, not the canned kind) overnight
in water. By morning, they will have bloated upto twice their original size.
2. Also soak 2 tablespoons "anaardaana"(dried pomegranate seeds) in water,
overnight. In the morning, drain out the water, grind them to a fine pulp.
3. In a pressure cooker, cook the chick peas with two teaspoons salt added,
for about 20 minutes. I have a cooker that I bought in India. Indian cookers
give a shrill loud whistle to indicate that now its time to turn the heat
to low-medium. So, basically, I cook the chick peas for 20 minutes on low-
medium heat after the first whistle.
4. In a large frying pan or wide-bottom pot, heat 4 tablespoons oil. Add
a. 5-6 cloves
b. Bay leaves (called "Tej pattha"), about 5-6 large sized ones.
c. 7-8 whole black peppers
d. 1.5 teaspoon minced garlic
e. 1.5 teaspoon minced ginger
and fry for a minute or less on low-medium heat.
5. Add two very large finely chopped (or better, grated) onions. Turn the heat
to medium-high and fry for some more time, till onions are slightly browned.
6. Add a 3-4 ounce can of tomato paste, and one fresh chopped tomato.
7. Cook till oil starts appearing on the sides of the pan.
8. You may also have to add about a cup of the chick pea water (from the
pressure cooker) so that the onion-tomato sauce in not too thick but has the
consistency of gravy.
9. Mash about half a cup of the boiled chick peas and add to the onion tomato
sauce, cook for a minute more and then add the "anaardaana" paste. This paste
is responsible for imparting a dark color to the sauce.
10. Add the boiled chick peas along with some more of the water, depending
on how "dry" or "liquidy" you like your Channa Masala. Remember, when this
cools down, its always going to lose some of the water and become more thick.
11. In the end, add 1/2 teaspoon garam masala, mix well. Turn off the heat.
12. Garnish with onion (cut into rings) and plenty of finely chopped
cilantro.
If you like your Channa Masala hot, you may add a teaspoon of "red chilli
powder" just before adding the tomato paste.
-Sujata