May 05, 2020

CHAAT

Happy Tuesday everyone. Hope you guys are doing well and are safe. I have created a poll on my Instagram about what should I post today and most of you asked for a snack recepie so here it is.
Today's recepie is my personal favourites, I am mad for this snack and I love it from the bottom Of my heart ---chaat.
Yeah sorry for some over excited felling above. Whenever I hear the name of chaat my mouth starts watering and I guess many of you have the same feelings.
During this lockdown the only street food I miss or crave for, are these Street side chaats.
Today's recepie is all about very easy, quick chat. Listening the name of chaat again and again many of you had already started missing these mouthwatering snack.
Also today's recepie is a lockdown recepie, that means you don't have to look for a lot of ingredients for this recepie, we will prepare it with very basic ingredients which you will easily found in your kitchen. These ingredients are mostly daily used ingredients.
KNOW ABOUT THE DISH:---

  • There are those who say the word Chatt originated from its literal meaning 'to lick'.however no one truly knows the origin.
  • It is believed that chat has its origin from Shah Jahan's royal kitchen.
  • The story goes-- in the 16th century, during the time of Shah Jahan, there was spread of cholera, many attempts were made to control it, but none worked.
  • Then the Sahi hakim came up with a treatment of strengthening the imunity of patients by consuming the foods which is loaded with spices but light for the stomach.
  • He realised that the only way to prevent this water borne disease was to add a liberal dose of spices and tamarind. Hence, the food came to be called chatpatti.
  • However no one knows the veracity of these stories.

INGREDIENTS:---(easily serve 2 people)
  • Boiled potatoes:-- 4 medium size (diced)
  • Papad:-- 4medium sized
  • Tamarind ---
  • Jageery--- 
  • Black salt--- 2tsblespoon
  • Curd---- half cup
  • Pepper corns--- 10-15 balls
  • Cumin seeds--2tablespoon
  • Fennel seeds--2tablespoon
  • Corriander seeds--- 1/2 teaspoon
  • Allu bhujiya
  • Corriander leaves
  • Red chilli powder:-- 1 teaspoon 
  • Onion --- 1 medium size(finely chopped)
  • Cooking oil-- 4tablespoon
METHOD:---
  1. Take a mixing bowl, add the diced potato peices and add salt according to your taste and mix them well.
  2. The first step will be to prepare the tamarind chutney.
  3. For that take 7-8 tamarind strands in 1/2cup of warm water and add1/2 cup of jaggery powder to it. Leave them in water for 15-20 minutes. After that keep the pulp of tamarind in water and through the seeds .
  4. Mix them well and you easy, instant tamarind chutney is ready.
  5. You can use sugar instead of jaggery too.
  6. Now let's prepare the chat masala, for that, take a pan or tawa and dry roast the cumin seeds, feneel seeds, Corriander seeds, peeper corns. Don't burn them , it will hardly take 3minutes.
  7. Take a grinder pot and grind these dry roasted masala with black salt and red chilli powder. And here you homemade chaat masala is ready.
  8. For the next step, take a tawa, heat 4 tablespoon of oil and shallow fry the potatoes from each side so that they get a crispy yellow layer.
  9. Take them in a plate after they are fried. Now take the papads and just roast them on heat, you can also deep fry them.
  10. These papads will play the role of crispy papdis in your chaat.
  11. Again take a mixing bowl and add those shallow fried potatoes, 5tablespoon of the chaat masala prepared, 1tablespoon of curd and 1tbalespoon of tamarind chutney. And mix them well.
  12. Time for plating, take a serving plate, crush 1papad in the plate, add the masala mixed potatoes on top of it, add 2-3 tablespoon of curd on top. Also add 1-2 tablespoon of chopped onion.
  13. Now add 2more tablespoon of tamarind chutney on top of chopped onion. Sprinkle 1tablespoon of chat masala prepared, some aalu bhujiya and some Corriander leaves. 
  14. At last add 1papad crushed on top of everything and wallah your instant chat is ready.
Hope you liked the recepie, this recepie will hardly take 20 minutes and is to die for. Comment down below if you liked the recepie or what other street food recepies you want us to post. 
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