Aloo chana chaat
Aloo chana chaat is a very healthy chaat that can be easily made with ingredients available at home. It is a very popular street food in North India
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
For cooking chana
- 1 cup black chana/Kabuli chana(chickpeas)
- a pinch of hing / asafoetida
- a few drops of oil
- salt as needed
- water as needed
Rest of the ingredients
- 2 potatoes
- 1 medium-sized big onion
- 2 green chillies
- 1 piece of ginger
- juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tbsp sweet chutney
- 1 tsp chaat masala
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- ½ tsp amchur powder(dry mango powder)
- a pinch of black salt
- coriander leaves as needed
- regular salt as needed
Instructions
- Soak the chana overnight in water. The next day, drain the water, add the ingredients mentioned under ' for cooking chana', and pressure cook for 3 whistles. Pressure cook the potatoes also separately along with this.
- Once done, drain the chana and peel the potatoes. Chop the onion, chillies, ginger, and coriander leaves finely.
- Take all of this with half the quantity of coriander leaves in a bigger bowl. Roughly mash or chop the potatoes before adding and give it all a mix
- Next, add the sweet chutney, and the other spice powders given in the list. Squeeze the lemon and add more salt as needed.
- Transfer contents to individual serving cups and garnish with coriander leaves