Chana Masala Recipe – Easy Chana Masala in a Pressure Cooker
Easy chana masala/chole masala recipe in a pressure cooker using storebought chana masala spice mix powder.
Servings: 3
Ingredients
- ¾ cup Kabuli chana / white chickpeas (approx. 150g, soaked for 8 hours)
- 1 + 1 tbsp Cooking oil + ghee
- 1 no Big onion (finely chopped)
- 3 nos Ripe tomato (finely chopped)
- 1 tsp Red chilli powder
- 1 tsp Dhania powder (coriander powder)
- 2 tsp Chana masala powder (Everest or MDH brand)
- 1 no Green chilli (slit)
- 1 inch Ginger (thinly sliced)
- ½ tsp Chat masala powder
- ½ tsp Kasoori methi (crushed)
- Coriander leaves to garnish
Instructions
- Wash and soak white chickpeas/kabuli chana in water for 8 hours or overnight. It gets doubled after soaking. Pressure cook in low flame for 3 whistles adding required salt and water. Take 1/4 cup cooked chana and mash it well. Set aside.
Heat oil + ghee in a pressure cooker. Saute finely chopped onion, slit green chilli and thinly sliced ginger. Saute for a minute. Add finely chopped tomato and salt, saute until mushy.
- Now add the red chilli powder, dhania powder, chana masala powder. Mix well. Add 1 cup of water, 1/4 cup mashed chana, 1 cup cooked chana and mix well. Note that you can also add uncooked chana directly after soaking but chana won't cook soft. In that case, you should add a big pinch of baking soda in the gravy.
- Pressure cook in low flame for 2 whistles. Remove the lid after steam is released. Add chat masala powder, crushed kasoori methi. Mix well. Garnish with coriander leaves if you like.
- Mix well and serve with poori, chapathi or bhatura! Enjoy!
Video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2q9oSlFFiLg%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded
Notes
- Adjust the quantity of spice powders as per your taste.
- You can add the spice powders after sauting onion, then add tomatoes. This was given in the Everest pack. But I added the masala powders after adding tomato.
- If you want to replace chana masala powder, add 1 tsp garam masala powder + 1/2 tsp aamchur powder.