Ingredients
- Chickpeas – 1/2 kg
- Onion 4 nos
- Shallots – 6 or7 nos
- Garlic -7 or 8 nos
- Ginger – 1 nos
- Curry leaves – 3 or 4 sprigs
- Tomatoes – 2
- Green chilli – 4 or 5 nos
- Coconut slices – 1/2 cup
- Dry red chilli – 4 or 5 nos
- Cardamom – 3 nos
- Cloves – 3 or 4 nos
- Cinnamon – 1 nos
- Black pepper – 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tbsp
- Red chilli powder -1 tbsp
- Coriander powder – 1 tbsp
- Fennel seed – 1 tsp
- Cumin seed – 1 tsp
- Mustard seed – 1 tsp
- Oil – 3 or 4 tsp
- Salt – 1 or 2 tsp
Method
- Firstly we have to rinse brown chickpeas .then soak for 6 hours.
- Then crush ginger and garlic ,set aside.
- Heat oil in a pan add shallots and dry red chilli ,fennel seed and cumin seed
- Add cardamom, star anise, cloves, cinnamon and black pepper.
- Add grated coconut and roasted them well.
- Drain soaked chickpeas and set aside.
- Heat oil in a pan add coconut pieces ,sauce them well.
- Add crush ginger garlic paste ,saute well
- Add chop onions and green chilli
- Then add some curry leaves and saute them well.
- Add turmeric powder ,coriander powder and red chilli powder ,saute them well
- Then add chopped tomatoes ,saute till they become soft.
- Add soaked chickpeas, saute them well.
- Sprinkle some salt for taste.,saute them well.
- Pour sufficient amount of water and mix them well.
- Cover and cook till the chickpeas become well cooked.
- Grind the roasted ingredients and set aside.
- Remove the lid and saute them well.
- Then add roasted grinded masala with water .
- Saute them well, and cook for 6 to 7 minutes.
- Remove from fire and set aside.
- Heat oil in a pan add mustard seed ,and let them splutter.
- Add dry red chilli and shallots, saute them well.
- Then add curry leaves ,saute them well
- Add some red chilli powder and fry them well.
- Then pour some water and boil them well.
- Then pour the mixture in to the chickpeas curry pan ,mix them well.
- Serve the chickpeas curry with rice cake.
Ingredients For Rice cake
- Rice flour – 2 cup
- Grated coconut – 1 cup
- Water – 1 or 2 cups
- Salt – 1 or 2 tsp
Method
- Take a bowl add rice flour and salt, mix well
- Then sprinkle little amount of water and mix with fingers.
- Then we take a puttu steamer and layer with grated coconut
- Again we add rice flour mix ,then layer with grated coconut
- Then again we add rice flour mix
- Finally we add grated coconut and level it up.
- Close the puttu kutty and steam well.
- Heat water in a steamer .
- Place this mould on top of the steamer .
- Steam passing through the lid hole
- shows that the puttu is cooked and ready.
- Then we detach the mould from the boiling water bath
- And push the rice cake with a long stick on to a serving plate.
- Serve the tasty rice cake with chickpeas curry.
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