Easy, healthy, extremely versatile Pakistani street style chickpea salad, the aloo channa chaat. One snack that is filling and you can never get bored off.
3cupcooked chickpea or 2 chickpea cans or 1 cup dry chickpea, cooked, see notes
1cupcubbed potato or as needed
1teaspooncumin powder
½teaspoonred chili powder
½teaspoonturmeric
½teaspoonsalt or as needed
½cupwater or more as needed
Yogurt sauce
1cupyogurt
1tablespoonsugar
½teaspoonchat masala
other
¼cuptamarind chutneyrecipe in notes
1onion chopped
1 tomato chopped
¼cupcorriander leaves chopped
2green chillies sliced, optional
Lemon juice
Papri
Chat masala
Red chilli flakes
Instructions
Put all ingredients of chickpea potato gravy in a pot and cook for 5-7 minutes on medium heat until potatoes are soft. Remove from heat and set aside.
Mix all the ingredient of yogurt sauce in the bowl. Set aside.
To assemble:
In the serving bowl layer warm chana and aloo gravy. Cover with 3-4 table spoon sweet yogurt and 1 table spoon imli chutney. Finish with onions, tomato, cilantro, lemon juice, and chilies (if using). Garnish with chaat masala, red chilli flakes and crunchy papri. Serve immediately.
Notes
Chickpea: Use good quality fresh dry chickpeas and not old once, if cooking from scratch. Old ones tend to stay hard after cooking.For softest chickpea, soak dry chickpea overnight with a pinch of baking soda. Once chickpea has puffed up, discard the water. Fill fresh water in the pot (enough water to cover chickpea completely and 1 inch above it). Boil chickpea with a small onion (cut in four parts) and salt until soft. You can also pressure cook. You should have a chick pea in a thick gravy with dissolved onions in the end.Tamarind Chutney2 tablespoon tamarind 4 tablespoon sugar¼ teaspoon salt¼ teaspoon cumin powder¼ teaspoon red chilli½ cup waterPut all ingredients in the saucepan and cook for 2 minutes until tamarind dissolves. Remove the seeds and strain the liquid to remove any particles. ( This is a quick tamarind chutney recipe but any sweet and thin imli chutney can be used.)