Chic Peas Masala or Ghugni Bengali Recipe

This is a Bengali recipe, very simple to make and taste delicious.

Ingredients

Chic peas or kabuli chana – 2 cups

Chopped onion – ½ cup

Chopped potato – 100 gm

Ginger – cut into long thin stick 1 inch

Cumin seed powder – ½ tsp

Coriander powder – 1 tsp

Aniseed powder – ¼ tsp

Garam masala – 1 tsp

Bay leaf – 2

Oil – ½ cup

Salt as per taste

Method

 Soak chic peas overnight and pressure cook them for 20 to 25 minutes. Heat oil in a pan and add bay leaf, diced potato and diced coconut and fry until brown. Then add chic peas. Keep on stirring and cook for five minutes, then add cumin powder, coriander powder, black pepper powder, garam masala, and turmeric powder and fry for more five minutes. Add water and salt to taste and continue cooking till all the water is absorbed. In another pan, heat oil or ghee, add broken red chillies and aniseed and fry till they splutter. Pour this on the chic peas masala and mix well. Add ginger sticks and stir. Remove from fire, garnish with chopped onions, and coriander leaves and serve with paratha.