Instant Pot Chana Masala | Zero Oil Chole | Punjabi Chole
Instant Pot Chana Masala is a Punjabi dish with authentic flavours and is loved in Punjab a lot. Punjabi Chole, usually, takes several hours and your good efforts but in this recipe, you don't need to cook tadka separately, as this a One-Pot Chole Recipe. Punjabi Chole is much loved in North India especially, Punjab. Because of its flavours and spicy tangy taste. You can club this Zero Oil Chole with almost everything, which includes, Roti, Naan, Kulchas, Rice, Poori or everyone's love Bhature :) This One Pot recipe has proved as a saviour to me many times as it needs least efforts of yours.
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 cup Kabuli chole / White chole
Ingredients
- 1 Onion
- 1 Tomato
- 3-4 Garlic
- 1/2 inch Ginger
- 2 Green Chillies (Slit) (Optional)
Dry masalas
- 1 tbsp Chole Masala
- Salt to taste
Other Ingredients
- 3-4 pieces Dry Amla or 1 tbsp Amla Powder
- 1 tsp Tea or 1 tea bag
Instructions
- Firstly, add soaked chole in a pressure cooker.
- Now, add amla pieces or amla powder in it. If you don't have amla pieces or amla powder, you can add tea or tea bags for colouring. I use amla powder because along with a beautiful colour it adds a tangy taste to chole.
- Next step is to add roughly sliced onion, tomato, ginger and garlic. You can add slit green chillies if you want your Punjabi chole spicy.
- Add salt to taste. At last, add 3-4 cups of water. We will add chole masala later on.
- Finally, cover the lid of the pressure cooker and allow it to cook for 30 minutes at medium flame.
- After 30 minutes, check the chole by pressing them with the back of your spatula. If they are still hard or uncooked, add 1 cup water and again keep them on a medium flame for more 10 minutes.
- In the end, add chole masala and mix well.
- Your Zero oil Chole is ready to serve. Garnish it with chopped dhania leaves. Serve it with rice, roti, poori or bhature.
Notes
Instant Pot Chana Masala is a Zero oil Chole recipe in which we don't have to cook tadka separately. We do all the cooking in one pot(Pressure cooker) only. Punjabi Chole is not only a popular dish in Punjab but also in other states too. In this recipe, I have mentioned an instant recipe which requires a minimum effort of yours. .....Just club all the ingredients in the pressure cooker and you are done. Here are some points you can take care of:-
- This is a Zero Oil Chole Recipe so adding cooking oil is not necessary. But adding 1 tsp desi ghee will add a rich taste to your Punjabi Chole.
- Secondly, preferably add amla pieces or amla powder because amla will add tangy flavour along with the colour.
- Thirdly, after opening the lid press chole with the back of your spatula. It will make your gravy thick.