Aloo Chaat Recipe (Potato Chaat)

Ingredients

• Potato

  Flesh and skin, raw

  2 potato, large or 738g

• Oil

  Submarine Sandwich - Wegmans

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Ginger root

  Raw

  1 tsp or 2g

• Green peppers

  Hot chili, raw

  1 pepper or 45g

• Cumin

  Spices, cumin seed

  ½ tsp, ground or 2g

• Salt

  Table

  ⅛ tsp or 0.8g

• Chaat Masala

  Mehran

  ⅓ tbsp or 3g

• Chili powder

  Spices

  ⅜ tsp or 1g

• Fresh cilantro

  Coriander leaves, raw

  1 tbsp or 1g

• Nylon Thin Sev

  Mirch Masala

  ¼ cup or 7g

• Pomegranates

  Raw

  ⅛ cup arils (seed/juice sacs) or 22g

• Lemon juice

  Raw

  ⅝ tsp or 3g

• Fresh cilantro

  Coriander leaves, raw

  ⅜ cup or 6g

• Mint

  Freshdirect

  5g

• Garlic

  Raw

  1 clove or 3g

• Ginger

  Spices, ground

  10g

• Chickpeas

  garbanzo beans, bengal gram, mature seeds, raw

  1 tsp or 4g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  1 tbsp or 15g

• Salt

  Table

  ¼ tsp or 2g

Directions

1. Preparation
2. Wash and peel potatoes. Cube them to 1 inch pieces and soak in water until used.
3. Optional - To make green chutney, add coriander leaves, pudina, garlic, ginger, fried gram and salt to a mini blender jar. Add 1 tbsp water. Make a fine smooth green chutney. Set this aside.
4. How to make Aloo Chaat - Method 1 - No deep fry
5. Boil potatoes till al dente. They must be just cooked without turning mushy. You can steam or pressure cook or boil them in a pot. Cool these completely and cube.
6. Add oil to a pan and heat it. Add ginger or garlic and green chili.
7. Next add the potatoes and saute on a high flame until golden and little crisp. Turn off the stove.
8. Method 2 - Deep fry
9. Parboil cubed potatoes for few minutes. Drain and wipe off excess moisture.
10. Heat half cup oil in a deep pan. When the oil is hot enough drop the potato cubes and deep fry until crisp and cooked through. Remove to a mixing plate.
11. Make aloo chaat
12. Next to the hot fried potatoes, add red chilli powder, chaat masala powder, very little salt and cumin powder.
13. Add green chutney, tamarind chutney or lemon juice. Check the salt and spice.
14. Mix well and transfer aloo chaat to a serving plate.
15. Add some coriander leaves, sev and pomegranate arils or raisins and cashews. Serve aloo chaat immediately.
16. Recipe by: Swasthi (source: https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/aloo-chaat-recipe/#wprm-recipe-container-36887)