Tangy and spicy Chaats are highly popular fast food varieties in India. The gravy part of the chaat is mainly made with green/white dried peas or garbanzo beans. This chaat is served with potato patties and garnished with finely chopped tomatoes, freshly chopped coriander leaves and mixture. This dish is delicious & healthy evening whole some meal. For this recipe we need to prepare Peas-chaat and Aaloo tikki/patty separately. Aaloo tikki/patty recipe:
Ingredients:
- 4-5 Medium size potatoes/Aaloo
- 1 tbsp. Ginger & garlic paste
- 1 ½ tbsp. Green chili paste
- Required amount of salt
- 1 tsp. Chaat masala
- 1 tsp. cumin powder
- 1 tsp. Coriander powder
- 2 bread slices
- 1 tsp. lemon juice
- Oil for shallow frying
- Cleanly wash potatoes, each potato cut into half and pressure cook them with little bit of salt.
- Remove brown part sides of the bread then cut it like a small pieces and sprinkle few table spoons of water on top of the bread pieces; keep it for 15 minute.
- Once the boiled potatoes are completely cools down then peel the skin and grate all boiled potatoes.
- Now gently mash soaked bread slices and combine with grated potato mixture and then gradually add salt, ginger & garlic paste, green chili paste, Chaat masala, Coriander powder, and lemon juice and mix them well.
- Grease your hands and take small amount of above mixture and make it like a patty shape; keep it aside. Do the same thing with rest of the mixture.
- Heat the wide non-stick skillet and shallow fry the patties on both sides with little bit of oil until the patties outer layer turns golden brown color.
Peas-Chaat recipe:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup dry green peas
- ¼” ginger
- 3 green chilies
- 1 tbsp. thick tamarind paste
- ¼ cup of canned tomato puree/ finely chopped tomatoes.
- Small piece of Jaggery (optional)
- Hand full amount of mint leaves
- Few coriander leaves
- Required amount of salt
- 1 ½ tbsp. chaat masala
- 1 tsp. Coriander powder
- 1 tsp. Cumin powder
- ½ tbsp. butter/cooking oil
- Wash and soak dry green peas at least 4 hours.
- Cook the soaked peas in the pressure cooker up to 6-7 pressures. (Make sure peas should not be mashed)
- Blend Ginger, green chilies, coriander leaves and mint leaves with some amount of water like a chutney paste.
- Put the butter in the wide & deep skillet then add the ground masala and then fry it about 2 minutes.
- Then add tomato puree/chopped tomatoes; cook it for about 5 minutes.
- Now add tamarind paste, jaggery, chaat masala, coriander powder, cumin powder, cooked peas and required amount of salt; cook it for about 5 minutes.
- Now add the required amount of water and cook the chaat at medium heat.
- Adjust the spiciness according to your taste.
Garnishing ingredients:
- Chopped tomatoes
- Chopped onions
- 1 tbsp. chaat masala
- Store brought/homemade snack mixture.
- Yogurt (optional)
First place an Aaloo tikki in the serving container, pour the peas chaat on top of the tikki then garnish with chopped fresh tomatoes, onion, little bit chaat masala, Yogurt and Mixture.