Code2Cook | Vegetarian and Healthy Recipes Collection: Moong dal tikki with chole

When we stayed in US, we missed street food very much. Being new in cooking, I was always stepping back to cook street food, I mean normal cooking itself is a big task how can I think of chat items... But once we both tried our hands on making chat at home. And it was awesome. Did not follow any recipe simply trial n error, check it out.

Ingredients: Sufficient for three people

For Tikki/Pancake

1 Cup moong dal/ yellow lentil dal

1 Medium sized onion finely chopped

1 Tsp ginger paste

2-3 Green chilies chopped finely

1 Medium sized tomato cut into small cubes, seeds should be removed

2 Tblsp green coriander leaves chopped finely

A pinch of asafoetida

2-3 Slices of wheat/white bread

Salt as per taste

Chat masala as per taste

For Chole

1 Cup dry green peas

1/4 Tsp baking soda

2 Big tomato chopped finely

1 Tsp ginger-garlic paste

1 Tsp chole masala

1/4 Tsp garam masala

1 Tsp cumin seeds

1/2 Tsp red chili powder

1/2 Tsp turmeric powder

Salt as per taste

2-3 Tblsp green coriander leaves finely chopped

Method: Wash and soak the lentil for half and hour. Pressure cook it until one whistle comes. Moong dal does not take much time to cook, so one whistle is sufficient. Keep this aside for sometime. Now heat oil in a pan and add asafoetida and chopped onion. Just cook for 2 min and pour this in a mixing bowl. Now add ginger paste, green chilies, chopped tomatos, chopped coriander, chat masala, salt and bread slices after crushing them. Mix this well so that chat masala and salt become even. To this add boiled lentil and mix well. Make small small tikkis with this mixture and roast on the hot griddle until both the sides are brown.

Soak dry green peas for 6-8 hours. Pressure cook this with addition of baking soda and 1 tsp salt. Pressure cook this untill 5-6 whistle comes. Now heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds & onion. Cook this untill onion becomes golden in color. To this add ginger-garlic paste and chopped tomatos. Cook them untill tomatos starts leaving oil in the corner of the pan. After this add turmeric powder, red chili powder, chole masala and garam masala. Garnish this with chopped coriander leaves and now chole curry is ready to serve :).

Serve this with tikkis and have it together.... yuuuuuuuuuuummmy :).