CURRIED GARBANZO BEANS

Ingredients:

Ingredients:
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8 oz       Garbanzo beans       
to taste   Green chili (optional)
12 cloves  Garlic
2" piece   Ginger
to taste   Pepper
1          large Cardamom
6          Cloves
1"         Cinnamon stick
to taste   Salt
Paprika 
4 oz       Oil
Mango      powder
3          Onions
Dried pomegranate seeds
4          Tomatoes

Method:

Method:
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Clean, wash and soak the beans overnight.  Boil them in the same water
with salt, 1 small finely chopped onion, 4 cloves garlic, 4 large
cardamom, a 1" piece of ginger and 6 cloves.  Simmer in pan about an
hour or until tender, or pressure cook for 7 minutes at 15 psi.

Heat oil.  Fry thinly sliced remaining onions and cloves of garlic.
Cook until mixture browns and dries up.  Add finely chopped tomatoes and
cook 4-5 minutes more.

Add the beans and cook for 10 minutes more.  Add the mango powder and
pomegranate seeds, grated ginger and simmer over low heat for 15-20
minutes.

Before serving, pour 1 oz. (2 T) sizzling ghee over the beans.