What’s Cooking Wednesday and Bookmarked Recipes #49 – Khatte Chole / Sour Chickpeas

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When I was planning to participate in Foodalogue’s virtual tour around the world – a journey of eating food from various countries but also to raise awareness for Bloggeraid, I was actually quite ambitious and wanted to submit several recipes – but in the end just submitted one because, well, life got in the way. So I have a whole store of various Indian recipes to share with you over the next few weeks. Today’s comes from the same 1983 edition of Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cooking book that held my Foodalogue submission. The updated version of Madhur Jaffrey’s cookbook on Amazon is very similar to the one I own and I recommend the book highly.

This is also going to be my submission for this week’s Bookmarked Recipes since I had so much fun participating last week. The host this week is Laurie from Mediterranean Cooking in Alaska. I actually literally had this recipe bookmarked for a long time in Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cooking – I love chickpeas in many forms and this version is excellent. It’s sour and tangy and just yummy. The only change I made was cut back the oil to 2 tablespoons.

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Khatte Chole / Sour Chickpeas
Bookmarked from Madhur Jaffrey, Indian Cooking

2 1/4 cups chickpeas
7 1.2 cups water
3 onions, chopped
2.5 tsp salt
1 green chili, chopped
1 TBS ginger, grated
4 TBS lemon juice
6 TBS oil
2 tomatoes, skinned
1 TBS coriander
1 TBS cumin
1/2 tsp turmeric
2 tsp garam masala
1/4 tsp cayenne

Khatte Chole / Sour Chickpeas
Originally uploaded by City Girl Lifestyle

Put the chickpeas and their soaking liquid into a large pot and bring to a boil. Cover, lower heat and simmer gently for an hour and a half or until chickpeas are tender. Strain and save the cooking liquid. Put 2 tbsp of the chopped onions, ½ tsp salt, green chili, ginger and lemon juice into a tea cup, mix and set aside. Heat the oil in a heavy, wide, casserole-type pot over a medium-high flame. When hot, put in the remaining chopped onions. Stir and fry for 8–10 minutes or until the onion bits develop reddish-brown spots. Add the tomatoes. Continue to stir and fry another 5–6 minutes, mashing the tomato pieces with back of a slotted spoon. Put in the coriander, cumin and turmeric. Stir and cook for another 30 seconds. Now put in the drained chickpeas, 1¾ cups of their cooking liquid, 2 teaspoons of salt, the garam masala and cayenne. Stir to mix and bring to a simmer. Cover, turn heat to low, and cook very gently for 20 minutes. Stir a few times during this period. Add the mixture in the tea cup. Stir again to mix. Serve hot or lukewarm.