Kabuli Chana Recipes, Chickpeas, Chole Recipes
Chole recipes. Kabuli Chana recipes collection. White chickpeas also popularly known as Kabuli Chana are legumes with high protein content. It is a small, beige-colored bean that looks like a wrinkled hazelnut. They are widely used in Indian and Middle eastern cuisine. They have a nutty and creamy flavour, which makes them versatile.
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Chole, Punjabi Chole Masala, Chole Recipe
From salads to curries, they are very easy to cook and one of the best ingredients you can keep in your kitchen shelf. Apart from being rich in proteins, they have numerous other health benefits. They are high in fiber, rich in Folate, Vitamin B9, magnesium, and also, they are good for diabetics and help in weight loss.
Indian Kabuli Chana Recipes
Chole, an authentic dish from North India is a popular breakfast all over Punjab and Delhi. It can be eaten with piping hot bhature or kulchas. Infact, Chole is also the main ingredient of various chaat recipes like Chole Tikki Chaat, Chole Samosa Chaat.
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Chole Tikki Chaat
You can replace the regular potato tikki with a paneer tikki or Potato and Methi Tikki to make flavorful Paneer Tikki Aur Chole, Potato and Methi Tikki with Chole. These chaats are generously smeared with whisked curds, peppy chutneys, tongue-tickling masalas and finally garnished with sev, coriander or pomegranate seeds.
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Paneer Tikki Aur Chole
The most important component to make the perfect Chole is the masala.
You can add readymade chole masala or a home-made Chole Masala Powder. Using this, you can make various chole dishes like the pindi chole, peshawari chole etc.
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Pindi Chole, Punjabi Pindi Chana Recipe
You can even add boiled kabuli chana to make various rice-preparations like the Kabuli Chana Biryani, Kabuli Chana Kofta Biryani or the Achari Chana Pulao.
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Kabuli Chana Biryani
Here is a list of some of my favorite kabuli chana recipes :
1. Kabuli Chana and Paneer with Mixed Vegetables
2. Masala Chickpeas, Kabuli Chana Tea Time Snack
3. Mixed Dal with Spinach and Kabuli Chana
4. Chawli and Kabuli Chana Pulao
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Mixed Dal with Spinach and Kabuli Chana
Healthy Kabuli Chana Recipes
Boiled chickpeas are a great addition to salads. They make them filling and adds a bite to it. The Mixed Sprouts Beetroot with a sweet, tangy and spicy dressing is rich in Vitamins and a nutritious & tasty salad for weight watchers.
You can even combine whole grains like quinoa with kabuli chana to make a healthy Quinoa, Rocket Leaves and Chickpea Veg Salad.
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Quinoa, Rocket Leaves and Chickpea Veg Salad, Buddha Bowl
Craving chaat while dieting? The Chick Pea Salad with Minty Curd Dressing is a tongue-tickling , tangy salad that will satisfy your cravings. Bored of eating salads all the time? You can quickly stir-fry Chick Pea, Broccoli and Carrot with oriental ingredients.
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Chick Pea, Broccoli and Carrot Stir Fry, Protein Rich Recipe
Middle-Eastern Chickpea Recipes
The famous mezze platter consists of various chips and dips, pickled veggies and other Mediterranean delights like falafel, pita bread, lavash. Hummus is an authentic Lebanese dip made by combining chickpeas with tahini, curd, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil.
You can even enhance the taste of this traditional dip with the addition/ substitution of ingredients to make assorted hummus like Spinach Hummus, Thecha Hummus, Garlicky Hummus.
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Spinach Hummus with Cucumber Sticks ( Tiffin Treats)
Using these various hummus, you can even make lip-smacking, quick sandwiches like the Toasted Hummus Sandwich with Vegetables and Lebanese Toasted Sandwich with Spicy Garlic Hummus.
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Toasted Hummus Sandwich with Vegetables
Falafel are deep-fried, kabuli chana fritters.
They can be eaten as appetizers or you can even stuff them inside pita pockets with a curd dressing to make healthy, sumptuous snacks like Falafel in Whole Wheat Pita Pockets.
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Falafel in Whole Wheat Pita Pockets, Diabetic Friendly
Enjoy our kabuli chana recipes | Chickpeas | Chole Recipes collection below.