North Indian
Chole Rice Bowl
Chole Rice Bowl is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups chickpeas (chana)
- 4 cups cooked rice
- 2 onion
- 3 tomato
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 2 green chilies
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 2 tsp chole masala
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 4 tbsp neutral oil
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Soak the chickpeas overnight, then pressure cook them with the salt and water until soft.
- Heat the oil and let the cumin seeds sizzle, then cook the onion, garlic, ginger, and green chilies until golden.
- Stir in the pureed tomato, chole masala, coriander, red chili powder, and turmeric and cook until thick.
- Add the cooked chickpeas with their liquid, mash a few, and simmer for 15 minutes until rich.
- Spoon the chole over warm rice, top with cilantro, and serve.
Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chole Rice Bowl, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Chole Rice Bowl carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Pulses, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chole Rice Bowl takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chickpeas, rice, and tomato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from North India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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