CHANA CHAAT | CHICKPEA CHAAT
Chana Chaat | Chickpea Chaat is a lip smacking, tasty, snack with flavours that are sweet, salty and tangy all present in one dish. It is popular as street food, especially in North India.
Ingredients
- 2 cups chickpeas boiled
- 1 cup potato boiled, peeled, diced
- ½ cup cucumber diced
- ½ cup tomato diced
- ¼ cup onion finely chopped
- ¼ cup semi ripe mango finely chopped
- ¼ cup peanuts boiled or roasted
- ½ cup yogurt optional
- ¼ cup coriander finely chopped
- 8-10 mint leaves chopped
- ½ cup green chutney
- ½ cup date tamarind chutney
- 1 tsp chaat masala
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp red chilli powder
- 1-2 green chillis finely chopped, optional
- 2 tsp garlic chutney optional
- ½ cup sev thin
Instructions
- Use canned chickpeas or boil the raw ones.
- To boil chickpeas, soak them overnight in warm water.
- Next day drain out the water, wash the chickpeas.
- Cook them in a saucepan with enough water and about ½ tsp salt. Alternately, pressure cook them for 3-4 whistles. If you use the IP, set it to the pressure cook mode.
- Drain out the water from the cooked chickpeas.
- Mix the chickpeas, potato, cucumber, tomato, onion, coriander, mint, peanuts, mango in a mixing bowl.
- Add salt, chaat masala, green chillis if using any and the red chilli powder.
- Mix well.
- Divide the mixture between two bowls if you are having it as a light meal or in four bowls for starters.
- Top the chaat with the sev and chutneys.
- Add yogurt if using any.
- Serve immediately as you want the crunch of the sev to remain.
Notes
- If you want to serve the chaat as a starter, mix the chaat with all the ingredients except for the chutneys, yogurt and sev. Serve those on the side.
- Adjust the spices according to your taste.
- The basic chana chaat has chickpeas, potato and onion with the chutneys. Feel free to add any other ingredients of your choice.