This recipe provides instructions for making Channa Masala, a popular Indian dish of chickpeas in a spicy tomato-based gravy. It includes soaking and cooking garbanzo beans or kabuli channa, then sautéing onions, ginger-garlic paste and various spices like cinnamon, cumin, chili powder and coriander in oil. Tomatoes are added and simmered to make the masala gravy, which is then mixed with the cooked chickpeas. The finished dish is garnished with cilantro and served with Indian flatbreads or rice.