Vegetarian Bunny Chow

Ingredients (Serves 6):

3 small loaves of bread
1 cup chick peas - soaked overnight (or canned chickpeas)
2 carrots - diced/chopped into this strips
1 onion - finely chopped
1 potato - diced/chopped into this strips
1 tomato - finely chopped
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp garam masala powder
1/2 tsp red chili powder
2 green chili - finely chopped
2 garlic pod finely diced
1/2 tsp grated ginger
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp oil
Salt
Water

Method:
1) Boil chick peas in a container filled with water with 2 tsp of salt for 5-10 minutes. Add potato and carrots, boil until the chickpeas and the veggies are soft. Drain and keep aside. Reserve 2 cups of water.
2) Heat oil in a pan. Add garlic, wait for it to change colour. Add mustard seeds and wait for it to splutter.
3) Add onion and wait for it to change colour. Add tomato, grated ginger, green chili and fry for a minute.
4) Add red chili powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder, tomato paste and fry for 10 seconds.
5) Add the cooked chickpeas and veggies. Add 2 cups of water. Bring to boil. Check for salt.
6) Cover and cook for 5 minutes on meidum heat. Add lemon juice and mix.

To make bunny chow:
1) Cut a small load of bread into two halves.
2) Take one half of the bread and scoop out the soft white bread inside leaving about a 1cm thick wall.
3) Fill the insides with curry.
Enjoy! :)

Chettinad Channa

Ingredients:
Onion - 1 (thinly sliced and cut to 1 cm length)
Tomato - 1 (thinly sliced and cut to 1 cm length)
2 cups Kabuli channa (soaked overnight)
1 to 2 cups coconut milk
Peppercorns - 5 to 6
Coriander seeds - 1 Tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp
Dry red chilli - 2
turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Cardamom pods - 2 (Remove skin and use seeds only)
Curry leaves - 8 to 10
Green chilli - 1
Poppy seeds - 2 Tbsp (soaked in 2 Tbsp warm water for 15 minutes)
garlic pod - 1
Oil - 2 Tbsp
Salt

Method:
1) Cook channa in microwave for 15 minutes with water until soft. Drain the water and keep aside the channa. (Note: You may pressure cook it as well)
2) Dry roast peppercorns, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, dry red chilli, cardamom seeds, curry leaves. Once it cools down grind it.
3) Add green chilli, garlic pod and poppy seeds to the powder and grind it into a paste.
4) Heat oil in a frying pan. Add onion and fry until it starts to change colour.
5) Add masala paste and fry for 2-3 minutes
6) Add tomato and fry for 5 minutes
7) Add channa, turmeric powder, salt and fry for 10 minutes on low heat.
8) Increase the heat back - Add coconut milk and let it boil for 10 minutes.
DONE!!!

Chole masala

Owe this delicious recipe to Archana's (Urs) MIL :) Thanks aunty! :)

Ingredients(Serves 6):
3 tomato -chopped
2 medium sized onion - chopped
1 cup chickpea - Soak overnight.
1/2 tsp ginger - chopped
1 Tbsp kasoori methi
1 tsp garam masala
3 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp fennel seeds
2 Tbsp oil
1 cup water
Salt (~1tsp)

Method:
1) Cook chickpeas until soft
2) In a wok, heat 1Tbsp of oil. Add ginger abd fry for a minute. Add onion fry until it turns translucent. Add tomato fry for 3-4 mins.
3) Once cool, grind this into a smooth paste along with 2 Tbsp of boiled chickpeas, 1 cup water, salt, chilli powder. Add more water if you need the garvy to be more thin.
3) Add 1 Tbsp oil in a wok. Fry cumin and fennel seeds. Add the paste and remaining chickpeas. Bring it to boil
4) Garnish with kasuri methi
DONE!!!
Serve with hot chapathi.. :)