This is my first entry in chaat section. While in India, I never tried preparing any chaat because we used to get very good chaats at a walkable distance from home.
Some 3 years back, I never had any roadside chaats. But once I tasted it, I felt the taste is better than any good restaurants. So I just stopped eating them in restaurants and always used to have in roadside chaat vehicles. By god’s grace I never fell ill because of them, So it encouraged me to eat it more.
This is the first ever chaat I prepared.
Ingredients: Maida or all purpose flour 1/2 cup Wheat flour 1/2 cup Cumin powder 1/2 tea spn Oil Sweet chutney 2 tbl spns Curd or yogurt 1 cup Potatoes(cooked) 2 Red chilli powder 1 tea spn Chaat masala 1 tea spn Coriander leaves 4-5 strands Tomato(finely chopped) 1 Salt
Method : Mix wheat flour, maida(or all purpose flour), salt and little water to make a dough. Cover it with damp cloth and keep aside for 10min. Make small balls of the dough, roll it into tiny puris (make it to chapathi size and cut into small puris) and deep fry them in oil. Mash potatoes lightly with hand. Keep the puris in plate, stuff them with potatoes. On this, spread sweet chutney, then a layer of curd or yogurt. Spread salt, chilli powder, chaat masala, coriander leaves, tomato and serve.
Serves : 3 Preparation time : 30min
From many days I am thinking about sharing the recipes of some of the delicious chutneys I make. Some of them, I haven’t tried here for a long time, so I cannot post the pictures. As and when I prepare them, I will upload the pictures also.
Sweet chutney is a must in most of the chaats. It gives sweet, sour taste to the chaat. I don’t like very sour taste, so reduced the amount of tamarind paste.
Ingredients: Tamarind pulp 2 tea spns Sugar/Jaggery 2 and 1/2 tbl spns Red chilli powder 2 tea spn Jeera powder 1/2 tea spn Green chilli(slit into two) 1 Salt As per taste
Method: Mix all the ingredients with 1/4th cup water. Cook on a low flame mixing occasionally till the mixture becomes thick. Discard the green chilli. Use as and when required. It can be preserved for 4-5 days in refrigerator.
Preparation time : 15min
