Best of India Contest || My favourite Indian food πŸ›|| 25-08-2021

in hive-196725 β€’Β  4 years agoΒ  (edited)

Hello everyone, I hope you all are fine, safe and doing great. It always exciting to participate in @bestofindia community's contest.

I'm glad to be a part of this strong community. This contest is interesting and unique and I would love to share my favourite Indian food and place where I love to eat.

I am gonna share my mother's recipe of chole puri which I love to eat all the time.

Indian food is rich and flavorful in every bite. It's hard to choose one particular dish but here is my most favourite dish chole and puri.

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First I'm gonna talk about the homemade food and share the recipe with you all.

Homemade Favourite Food

Chole Puri

Chole puri is a Indian food and loved by everyone around India.
We make this recipe sometimes on special occasions and most of us indian loved this recipe.

It's my favourite Indian pleasure food which is wholesome and tasty.
Let's talk about the ingredients we need to make this yummy recipe.

Ingredients

β–ͺ️ Chickpeas
β–ͺ️ Onion
β–ͺ️ Tomatoes
β–ͺ️ Ginger and garlic
β–ͺ️ Spices
β–ͺ️ Whole spice
β–ͺ️ Salt

Step 1

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Take raw chickpeas according to your preference and soaked them overnight. Wash them thoroughly and pressure cooked it with 1 table spoon of salt.
Now I add 3 tomatoes into the pressure cooker with chickpeas so that the tomatoes cooked well and it's easily incorporate with the paste.

Step 2

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While our chickpeas cooks we chopped the onions and garlic.
We already soaked them overnight so it wouldn't take too long to cook the chickpeas. It took around 25-30 minutes.
After it cooked I took out the tomatoes from pressure cooker.

Step 3

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Now chopped Ginger slices and take whole spices such as bay leaf, black peppercorns, cinnamon stick, black cardamom and cumin seeds.
And put all the whole spices into the hot oil.

Step 4

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Now add hing and chopped onion into the oil and cook until the onion turns golden brown.

Step 5

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Now add turmeric powder I am cooked tomatoes into the pan and let it fry for 2-5 minutes.

Step 6

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Now we add all the Powder spices like turmeric powder, red chilli powder, black pepper powder and salt as per your taste. Let it cooked for good minutes.

Step 7

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Now cook the paste will until the oil gets separated from the paste. Then we add water and cook the paste for few more minutes then we add cooked chickpeas into paste and let it go ok for 10 to 15 minutes.

Our chole is ready to serve with puries.

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How much it cost

The whole dish will cost around 375 to 400 INR and approximately 5.39 USD if we buy everything according to this recipe.

Favourite food of Restaurant

Place : The GT Road

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The GT road restaurants one of my favourite places to have my favourite food which is in Delhi near Connaught Place.
Ambience and surrounding of this restaurant is so good and it has buffet serving system.
You can totally enjoy your day evening with your family members and friends. The quality and taste of the food is so good and most importantly staff and service is brilliant.

I love the taste of there chole dish. It was so rich and flavorful.

Location : The GT Road

https://w3w.co/evoke.spinning.clincher

Cost Per Head

It will cost around 1000 INR and 13.49 USD for per person.

That's all about this post.
Thank you.

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Β  Β· Β 4 years agoΒ 

Chola puri looks so tasty, but it's a bit expensive πŸ˜‚...btw i wish you best of luck...

#affable #india

No that's for restaurant not for chole puri.
And 1000 for buffet serving with unlimited whatever you want, you can have unlimited buffet and as many time as you want is quite ok. But you have to be foodie. @aamir07
Thank you

Amaging attempt,you are entitle for rewad from @boi,I wish you best of luck
Overall nice diary w/ gorgeous photography w/ talented content shared w/ us

Keep posting and be conncted

@kalalbitoni
#affable

Thank you so much @layersinn means a lot.

That restaurant seems to be classic.
You have also good culinary skills.
You are good at dancing, craft and are a good cook also.

Thank you @krishna001 for your compliments.
Stay blessed and safe.

It will cost around 1000 INR and 13.49 USD for per person.

quite expensive haha it must be worth it .

nothing can beat the taste of homemade food it tastes decent.
wonderful post ,thank you for participating in boifood contest. good luck.

Yes quite expensive but you can have unlimited buffet. It's good for someone who is foodie and have good capacity for eating. Hehe

Thank you so much @rishabh99946.

Β  Β· Β 4 years agoΒ 

Chole puri and chole bhature seems to be taking the lead in the favorite food list. I think more and more people are into it. Also this one however I have noticed to be the expensive place for eating like 1K is a bit much. Thanks for posting in the contest. :)

#affable #india

Yes, it's expensive but you can have unlimited buffet which means variety of foods from starters to main course, desserts, cake, pizza, even momos almost everything you think of.
It's good for someone who eats good amount of food.
Thank you so much @skysnap

Β  Β· Β 4 years agoΒ 

Nice diary from you. Keep it up!

Thank you

Β  Β· Β 4 years agoΒ 

Chole Bhature looks amazing, @kajalbitoni, Thanks for sharing
the recipe with us, and the details are explained very well . keep posting.

It's chole puri, thank you for amazing comment.

Β  Β· Β 4 years agoΒ 

@kajalbitoni, first of all congratulations for your participation. Your chickpeas looks colorful and delicious. All the best. Keep sharing your day with us and stay blessed.
I wish I could get a chance to have your cooked food. πŸ˜‚

God knows may be one day😁😁 Thank you @pulook

@kajalbitoni, what have you done my dear!! Your chickpeas make me feel hungry. By the by what is the green in colour stuff you serve with puris and chole?
Congratulations for your participation, best of luck.

Β  Β· Β 4 years agoΒ (edited)

That's mint and coriander curd chutney.
Thank you so much dear @sduttaskitchen

Β  Β· Β 4 years agoΒ 

Thanks for sharing recipe with us. Cholle Bhature looks delicious.
Keep posting

#affable

Thank you, it's chole puri.
Stay safe

My mouth is watering after seeing your chhole purri. It's looking so tasty πŸ˜‹. Your mother recpie is much good.
Thanks for sharing yoy day.

#affable
#india

Thank you so much @shivamkumar001

So nicely presented contest entry. Good luck.

Thank you so much.

Β  Β· Β 4 years agoΒ (edited)

Very nice entry. This has given me idea about cooking chole poori .

It will cost around 1000 INR and 13.49 USD for per person.

Oh that is huge.

Wish you good luck

Yes, but it's buffet serving with unlimited.
Thank you

but it's buffet serving with unlimited.

Oo cool then :)

@kajalbitoni Wow I can see that how to prepares this step by step but chole puri 's looking so much yummy and delicious , keep sharing your recipe with us .

Keep posting πŸ‘ like this

#affable #india

Thank you so much πŸ™‚

Β  Β· Β 4 years agoΒ (edited)

My warm greeting to you @kajalbitoni for winning such a wonderful contest. Women are always good at the sense of food or selecting the best food and you have proved that.

Regards
@printskill

Thank you for your lovely greetings.

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Thank you

Yummy πŸ˜‹ you recipe is looking really amazing πŸ‘.

Thank you so much.

Delicious thali of chhole puri..I love it..
Thanks for sharing ur wonderful diary .
#india

Thank you so much