27 October, 2015
Palak chole | Spinach Chickpeas curry |
ಪಾಲಕ್ ಛೋಲೆ |
When Iron (Palak) & Protein (chickpeas) are put together, it creates a nutritious and healthy dish and an awesome accompaniment.
Genuinely I never knew that Palak chole tastes such awesome before tasting it. Recently I ate it in a restaurant, and as I already know how to make chole (plain) I could easily recreate it. I have Just added ground palak along with hung curd to it and adjusted the spices accordingly…. And believe me it turned out extremely Palatable.
However I guess the home made chole masala powder also enhanced the taste to some more extent. Such a finger licking dish, Which I would like to make time and again from now on and here I have used brown chickpeas.
We can make this Palak chole without adding onion also to make it no onion no garlic recipe.
Be it with roti, Phulka, chapati, layered paratha, plain paratha or with steaming hot rice it is truly a delicious delicacy to relish on any day any time. Next time I’m definitely going to add sauteed Paneer cubes as well to this tempting curry/gravy.
Do not forget to check, one of our south Indian special curry/huli made using chickpeas which is to be eaten with Plain rice. You can check the recipe here – chickpeas/chole salad + huli/dal/curry You need to make it to believe how yummy it tastes !
NOTES :
- We can make this Palak chole without adding onion also to make it no onion no garlic recipe
- I have not put any water into this recipe while making chole (I have put water to cook chickpeas that’s it), if you feel the need, then you can put
- We can also put small cubes of Paneer as well
Ingredients : measuring cup used – 250 ml,
- Brown chickpeas – 3/4 cup
- Water – 2 cups or as needed
- Spinach/Palak (chopped) – 1 small bunch (approximately 2 cups roughly chopped)
- Hung curd or Yogurt – 1/2 cup
- Grated beetroot – 2 tbsp (optional)
- Slit/chopped green chili – 1
- Ginger (grated) – 1 tbsp
- Curry leaves – 2 sprigs
- Onion, cut into long – 1 cup
- Tomato, chopped – 1 cup
- Oil – 1 tbsp
- Cumin seeds – 1/2 tbsp
- Red chili powder (Kashmiri) -1 tsp
- Coriander powder – 1/2 tbsp
- Cumin powder – 1 tsp
- Garam masala Powder – 1/2 tsp
- Chole masala Powder – 2 tbsp
- Salt to taste – I have put 1/2 tbsp table salt
- Ghee – 1 tbsp (to pour on the chole at the end)
PROCEDURE :
- Wash well and soak chickpeas for overnight, next morning drain all the water, put fresh water and pressure cook until soft. Take 2 cups out of this cooked chickpeas to use in this recipe
- Wash/rinse well the spinach, blanch it in the boiled water for couple of minutes, Keep under running water for a minute and grind into a paste along with hung curd
- Heat oil in a pan, Put cumin seeds, green chili, ginger and curry leaves, onion and beetroot, saute for a minute, then add pureed tomato and stir well
- Now reduce the heat, add in all the spice powders, stir well
- Now put the pureed Palak curd mixture, stir for a minute on medium high heat, stir while mixing
- Now add cooked chickpeas, stir once, add salt, stir again, cover and let it boil well for a minute or two
- Turn off the heat and add 1 tbsp ghee, cover it and let it rest for five minutes
- You can pair this yummy curry, Palak chole with any kind of roti/bread or rice
Check here to check the recipe of home made Chole masala Powder
However below you can have a look at some more recipes which uses chole as main ingredient, Like –
- Green chickpeas salad | Fresh chickpeas salad |
- Chickpeas corn pomegranate salad| Kadalekalu jola dalimbe usli
- Kadalekalu usli | Gugguri | Chickpeas salad |
- Chickpeas sweet rice flakes| Kadalekalu sihi avalakki
- Chickpeas/Kadalekalu southekayi avalakki |
- Achari chole Pulao | Pickled chickpeas Pulao | Chole Biryani |
- Chickpeas Paratha | Chole Paratha | Video |
- Chickpeas almond tikki chat | Simple chole tikki chat |
- Chole | Punjabi Satvik chole | a no onion garlic chole |
- Hyderabadi aloo chole | Aloo chole |
- CHOLE (PUNJABI CHOLE) | VIDEO
- Amritsari aloo Kulcha & Chole |
- Chole huli/dal | Chickpeas/Kadalekalu huli – a south Indian style dal l
