This week’s theme is very easy for me :-) North Indian side dishes with no onion and no garlic. Being from Brahmin community, most of our food is without onion and garlic only. I am very much used to this concept. We cook North Indian dishes in the same way too. I am going to post our favorite three dishes which taste great even without onion and garlic.
The first one is chole – protein packed garbanzo beans gravy. This goes well with rice, poori, roti and also you can use this for any chat also be it Pani Poori, Samosa chole or Papdi chat. etc.
One of my friend suggested using Chana dhal along with garbanzo beans. So in my recipe I have both the dhals.
Chole
Ingredients:
- Garbanzo beans – 3/4 cup
- Channa dhal – 1/4 cup
- Soak them both overnight and pressure cook them for up to 3 whistles by adding little salt.
- Ripe Tomatoes – 3
- Oil – 2 tsps
- Cumin seeds/Jeera – 2 tsps
- Hing – 1 tsp
- Red chilly powder – 1 tsp
- Dhaniya/Coriander powder – 2 tsps
- Cumin powder – 1/2 tsp
- Jaggery – a small piece
- Cilantro – fine chopped 1 tsp
- Salt – 2 tsps
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
Steps:
- Heat the kadai and add oil.
- Once the oil is hot, add cumin seeds and hing.
- As they start to splutter, add the chopped tomatoes, salt and turmeric powder.
- Cover and cook till they become soft.
- Now add the dry masalas – red chilly powder, cumin powder and dhaniya powder.
- Mix them well and cook till the oil seperates.
- Now add the cooked garbanzo beans and channa dhal and the jaggery.
- Let it boil well for 3-4 minutes.
- Add the chopped cilantro and serve hot with rice or roti.
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Chole looks delicious…Yummy!!
Thanks Sindhiya
Love your no-onion, no-garlic version of chole.. Looks yummy!!
Thanks
Yet another reminder that Chole can be enjoyed without onion and garlic!!
Oh yeah sure :-)
A yum chole, without onion and garlic.
:-) Thanks Sneha
I can have that beautiful chole just like snacks, tempting dish.
I agree. Mini poori with chile is yum
Wow delicious sounding chhole!..will surely try it..
Thanks :-)
Haven’t cooked garbanzo beans.. It’s my long term to do.. Yum yum
:-) :-)
I can hardly cook any side dishes for roti without onion or garlic. Nice recipe for me to try if need be.
:-) :-)
long ago i used to cook without onion and garlic in chaturmaas. I seen to have forgotten how to cook without onions and garlic. Thanks these remind me of what I can still try. Chole look delicious.
:-) It happens right. Anyways thanks
I make channa masala with no onion no garlic the same way using the channa in them :) delicious gravy dear looks totally yumm with roti !!
Thanks Manjula :-)
It is amazing how we consider onions to be a must for almost all the curries and surprisingly, the same curry turns out wonderful without that must ingredient. Chole looks good.
Yeah very true. Thanks
I don’t miss onion or garlic either. The chole look perfectly made.
Thanks Varada
yes these recipes are indeed helpful for rituals where we need to avoid onions
Yeah :-)
yum yum yummy!!! perfect with batura
True.. I know batura is missing :-(
Wow looks perfect, tried this just yesterday for my next week theme.
Oh wow. waiting for your version
Even we at home (me being a Brahmin) prepare no onion no garlic versions of North Indian curry/gravy. It tastes simply delicious with roti/chapathi and even with rice!
True da..:-)