How to cook Chikar Cholay? post your recipe please.
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My recipe is in my thread
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/household-affairs-and-cuisine-corner/568577-relished-feasts.p
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what's that? never heard of CHIKAR! is it a Punjabi word?
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^ CHIKKAR is punjabi word for keechar (mud)
We make it in a different way !
boil the soaked chanay separately and add them to the masala and cook until really tender. then using a potato masher, crush the chanay in 3-4 places (sub chanoan ka qeema nai kootna - in my mom's language:D) so some of the chanay will be mashed and thicken the gravy
I LOVE them with imli ki chutney yumm
the masala is made as follows:
blend an onion,2 tomatoes, 1tbsp tomato paste, a maggi/knorr chicken cube, 4 tbsp yogurt, salt, green chillies,1/2 tsp red chilli powder,haldi,cumin powder and zeera powder. bhoon this masala in oil with 1-2 cinnamon sticks nicely adding some water if needed. then add boiled chanay alongwith its water and cook on dum for 25-30 minutes and then do the mash-thingy
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This recipe I use for simple channey, and I crush channey with hamam dasts, but chikkar choley i make the way i posted
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I make simple chanay almost like the recipe you wrote 
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I add soaked red/orange daal (i think its masoor, i always forget the names) to the channas before boiling, if i am using uncooked. If i use canned channas i boil the daal seperately. and i think adding zeera adds loads of flavor.
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oh really 
, but i find the recipe of my chikkar choley to be like muddy not the one i use for simple channy
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^ap kay recipe ki kya baat hai 
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Arey nahin nahin, it my mom's recipe. That simple one also goes great only my opinion about it is that it has less CHIKKAR :D.
Some people also put masoor daal in Chikkar choley
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People, I am sorry but none is giving away the right recipe if they have the moong/masoor ki daal missing in it which is a very important part of the real chikkar cholay. Without it, the channay dont get mixed up well and there is no chikkar cholay without that.
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I add soaked red/orange daal (i think its masoor, i always forget the names) to the channas before boiling, if i am using uncooked. If i use canned channas i boil the daal seperately. and i think adding zeera adds loads of flavor.
THIS, people.
Chikar Choley
Hi everyone
can someone please give me a good recipe for chikar choley!!!
i’ve been looking everywhere but can’t seem to find a decent one (punjabi style)
please let me know
thanks
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yeh chikar kia hotaa hai? is it like chic peas?
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cholay is chic peas, chikar cholay is the name of dish
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hayeN? ulTaa farmaa rahii haiN kia? chhole is a dish made of either chic peas, green chanaa, gol maTar or whatever…here, chikar chic peas qism kii koii cheez hai aur issse banii huii dish chikar chhole kahlaatii hogii…meraa sawaal thaa k chikar kia cheez hai? 
yahan to cholay chic peas ko kehty hain or chikar cholay me black color ka chic pea use hota hy.google kr lain aap ko smjh a jaye ga or mujhy bhe ache tarah sy explain kr dijye ga 
I like chikar cholay
Chikar is a punjabi word which means keechar
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really? :o to, khaane kaa aisaa naam kiuN rakkhaa k jiske khaane se pahle hii ubkaaiyaaN aane lageN? 
Sara thread hi ruin kar diya kkf bhai ne