Ayesha's Kitchen

One of my favorite dishes………

Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

• 3 ½ cups chickpeas/ 3 tins boiled chickpeas  (I prefer uncooked dry chickpeas, soak them overnight in a deep mixing bowl with lots of water and they will be fine, ready to boil in the morning)
• 2 medium sized onions (sliced)
• 100g butter (optional, when I am making fancy fancy I top my dish with a  small scoop of butter otherwise I prefer olive oil)
• ¼ cup oil
• 1 tbspn ginger (freshly crushed)
• 1 tbspn garlic (minced)
• 2 green chillies
• 2 tbspns coriander leaves (chopped)
• Salt
• 1 tspn red chilli flakes
• 1 tbspn chaat masala
• 1 tspn garam masala
• 1 tspn cracked black pepper
• 1 tspn coriander powder
• 1 tspn cumin seeds
• 1 tspn chicken salt (reduce the amount of salt if you are adding this or chicken cube)
• 1 kg chicken pieces

TO BOIL CHICKPEAS

• Some water to boil chickpeas
• 1/3 tspn of baking soda
• ½ tspn cumin powder
• ½ tspn garam masala
• Some salt

Procedure:

-In a large saucepan with a lid, put soaked chickpeas with water, baking soda, cumin powder, garam masala and salt and boil covered until the chickpeas are very tender.

-Meanwhile they are boiling, in a separate large, deep pan, melt butter; add oil, ginger, garlic, red chilli flakes and chaat masala and fry. Add onion and fry until onion are golden brown.

-Add chicken and cook until the chicken is golden. Now add 1 cup of water and all the spices except garam masala.

-When the chicken is tender and very little water remains, add chickpeas with the water we used for boiling and stir.

-Cook on low heat to simmer.

-Top with some garam masala, coriander and chillies and serve hot with chapattis, naan, dahi, and red onion salad.