Roasted Chickpeas

Ingredients:

• 2 cup white chick peas (or black gram /kabuli channa)
• 1 bay leaf / cassia leaf
• 1/4 tsp garam masala

Tempering:

• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp red chili powder
• 1 tsp chat masala
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp dry mango powder ( aamchur powder)
• 1/4 tsp pepper powder
• 1 tsp salt ( or to taste )

Method:

• Washed white chick peas well and let them in soak over a night. Then cooked them in a pressure cooker with cassia leaf  and garam masala till two whistles. Then spread them in a thin layer and let them become dry bit.
• Now, add the oil in a pan once it get hot add red chili powder, pepper powder, chaat masala, turmeric, coriander and salt and stir well cast.
• Now, add chickpeas into the mixture and mix them well and turn off the heat and let them side for half an hour. so that chickpeas absorb mixture properly.
• Now, take same pan and on medium heat roast chickpeas well until they become light brown in color. while doing this let stir them so that they get roasted well.
• now you hot and crisp chickpeas is ready, you can eat them any time by storing in a airtight jar.