CHANNA MASALA/MUSHROOM MASALA

Servings: 3 Cooking Time: 1hr

INGREDIENTS
• Chickpea 200gms
• Onions 2 Medium sized
• Tomatoes 1 ½ Medium sized
• Green chilies 3 no’s
• Chili powder ½ tsp
• Garam masala 1 tsp
• Cumin powder ½ tsp
METHOD:
• Finely chop the onions and slit the green chilies length wise.
• If it’s a frozen pack, you can soak the chick peas in water for one hour. Otherwise soak it overnight.
• Put the chickpeas in a micro safe dish and add twice the amount of water and little salt. Keep it in the microwave for half an hour. Keep checking and stirring it in between once or twice.
• In another micro safe dish, add the tomatoes and keep it in microwave for 2-3 mins until the skin starts peeling.
• Remove the skin smash the tomatoes well and little water. Keep it again inside the microwave for 5 minutes till the tomatoes are cooked well.
• Then add the onions, green chili, chili powder, and Garam masala and cumin powder. Stir it well and keep it inside the microwave for another 10 minutes.
• Then add the cooked chick peas, little butter and keep it inside for another 5 mins.
• Garnish it with coriander and chopped onions.

** Lays chips can be crushed and added on top just before serving. You ll get a very nice crunchy taste. This is purely optional. We like this taste so we add it.
** The same procedure can be followed and chickpea can be substituted with other kind of dry beans like kidney beans, pink beans etc...
**For mushroom masala, folllow the same procedure and in the end you can add the mushrooms instead of cooked chickpea. Mushrooms will cook in less than 10 minutes.