Chole Tikki Chat

This blog is for typical street food Chole Tikki which can be easily made at home. If you are chat lover then this is must try and I am sure your family will love it.

This dish is a two-part preparation, chole, and tikkis . Chole is prepared by soaking white chana overnight in water to make them easier to cook. They are drained and cooked in a pressure cooker. The chana is then mashed and fried with onions, spices to make a curry which is the chole (gravy).

The tikkis are made from boiled mashed potatoes. Two or three of these tikkis are covered with the stew-like chole as a sauce and garnished with finely chopped onions, coriander leaves, spicy chutney, and sweet and sour tamarind chutney.

Here is detailed recipe for Chole Tikki Chat:

INGREDIENTS :

FOR CHOLE:

1 cup chole boiled 
1-2 pinch hing
1 onion
7-8 cloves of garlic crushed
1 cup tea water
2-3 tablespoon oil
1 teaspoon jeera
1 tablespoon kashmiri red chilli powder
1 tablespoon chole masala
1 teaspoon amchur powder / chat masala
salt to taste

FOR TIKKIS:

3 big potatoes boiled
2-3 pieces of bread
1 carrot grated
1 beetroot grated
1/2 cup paneer grated
1/2 cup cheese grated (optional)
1/4th cup coriander leaves 
1 teaspoon amchur masala / chat masala
1 teaspoon jeera powder
1/2 cup semolina for coating
1 cup oil for frying tikkis

FOR SERVING:

1 onion
1/2 cup coriander leaves (garnishing)
tamarind chutney
coriander chutney
1/2 cup dahi
1 teaspoon chat masala

METHOD:

FOR CHOLE:

1. Soak chole overnight. Next day in a saucepan boil one cup of water with 1 tablespoon of tea powder when water starts to boil strain and keep the water aside.

2. In a pressure cooker boil chole and at this point of time add tea water along with necessary water and salt.

3. Meanwhile take 1 onion and chop it finely. Take 2-3 tablespoon of oil in a pan. Let it become hot add jeera and let it splutter then add hing.

4. Add onions and garlic paste and cook till onions become translucent and turn brown. Meanwhile from boiled chole take 1-2 ladle chole and grind it into a paste and add it to onions.

5. Once onions and chole paste start to leave oil add kashmiri red chilly powder,chole masala,amchur/chat masala and add remaining chole and stir. Once chole starts to boil you can garnish it with coriander leaves and jeera powder.

FOR TIKKI:

1. Boil potatoes and keep aside. Take pieces of bread you can either wet them and then squeeze excess water and break into pieces or else you can grind pieces of bread in a mixer.

2. Grate carrot,beetroot,paneer and cheese and mix it with potatoes and bread.

3. Add salt,amchur masala/chat masala,jeera powder and coriander leaves. Knead a soft dough while combining all the ingredients together.

4. Roll into small or medium size discs of your choice or else you can you heart shape cookie cutter and give that shape also. Coat with semolina and deep fry until golden and crispy.

FOR SERVING:

1. In a plate firstly arrange tikkis then pour chole such that tikkis get drowned in it. 

2. Add dahi ensure that you whip dahi nicely. Add tamarind chutney , coriander chutney or any other chutney of your choice.

3. Add chopped onions and chopped coriander leaves. Sprinkle chat masala and jeera powder and serve immediately.

POINTS TO BE NOTED:

1. This chole recipe goes along with bhature also.

2. You can add additional tadka on top of chole by taking 1 tablespoon of ghee in tadka pan let it heat add jeera 1 teaspoon, a pinch of hing and 1 teaspoon chole masala and pour over ready chole and close the lid immediately it helps in keeping the flavours intact.

3. You can always make tikkis and keep in fridge fry them once your guests are about to come.

4. Those who do not like tamarind chutney can opt for khajoor chutney and one can also opt of pudina chutney instead of coriander chutney.