DRY BLACK CHICK PEAS / MASALA KALE CHANE / SOOKHE KAALE CHANNE

 Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
Serves: 6

Ingrdients:

200 gms kale chane / black chick peas
2 tomatoes roughly chopped
1" ginger roughly chopped
1-2 green chilies
2 tbsp refined oil
a pinch of hing 

1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp dhania powder (coriander powder)
1 tsp garam masala powder or channa masala or catch sabzi masala
1/2 tsp degi mirch powder
salt to taste

Method (Vidhi):

1. Wash and soak black gram or chick peas overnight in normal water or atleast for 3-4 hours in warm water.
2. Drain out water and add 3-4 cups water with a tsp of salt and cook the chick peas in a pressure cooker till they become soft. Simmer the gas after 2-3 whistles and cook further for 15-20 minutes. Ckeck after the pressure releases and if required cook further as required.
3. Mean while grind tomatoes,ginger and green chilies in a mixer. Keep aside.
4. Heat oil in a pan and add hing then crackle cumin seeds and add tomato paste in it.
5. Cook till half the water of tomato paste evaporates then add all the spices and cook further till the masala leaves the sides of the pan.
6. Now check the water in boiled chick peas, if there is not much water in it then you can add the cooked masala to the boiled black chick peas other wise cook till the water evaporates or you can drain out the water and make kale channe ka soup out of it.
7. After adding masala cook till you reach the desired consistency. If you like you can mash some of the chick peas.  
8. Check salt and if required add some more salt, garnish with chopped coriander and serve hot with aate ka halwa and puris. These no onion sookhe kale chane are served on durga ashtmi as prasaad.