Aloo Chaat Recipe (Street Style)
Aloo chaat, a beloved street food snack, features fried crispy potatoes tossed in a medley of spicy and sweet chutneys, along with various ground spice powders. The dish is then beautifully garnished with curd, pomegranate arils, and sev, creating a delightful combination of flavors and textures.
Ingredients
For Frying Potatoes
- 250 grams potatoes or 2 large or 3 medium potatoes
- 4 tablespoons oil for shallow frying
Other Ingredients
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper powder
- ½ teaspoon kashmiri red chili powder
- ½ teaspoon roasted cumin powder
- ½ teaspoon dry mango powder (amchur powder)
- ½ teaspoon chaat masala powder
- black salt or pink salt or white salt as per taste
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped mint leaves
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped coriander leaves
- ½ teaspoon finely chopped green chilies or 1 green chili – optional
- 1 tablespoon Tamarind Chutney or add as required
- 1 to 2 teaspoons lemon juice or add as per taste
- 1 to 2 tablespoons pomegranate arils for garnish – optional
Instructions
Frying Potatoes
- Rinse potatoes a couple of times in fresh water and then peel them. Chop the potatoes in small bite sized cubes.
- Heat oil in a frying pan or kadai (wok). Keep the heat to medium. Use any neutral oil with a high smoking point to fry the potato cubes.
- Add the potato cubes. You can fry potatoes in one or two batches depending on the size of the pan or kadai.
- When one side become light golden, turn over and fry the second side. Keep on turning the potatoes as required for even frying.
- Fry till the potatoes turn crisp and golden. Make sure to fry well so that the potato cubes are not raw or half cooked from the center.
- Remove with a slotted spoon. place the fried potatoes on kitchen paper towels.
Making Aloo Chaat
- When the potatoes are still hot, take them in a mixing bowl.
- Add all the spice powders mentioned above. You can adjust spice powders as per your requirements.
- Also add black salt or white salt as per taste.
- Add the finely chopped mint leaves and coriander leaves.
- At this step you can also add finely chopped green chillies. Note that green chilies give pungent and hot notes while eating. Add only if you can eat raw green chilies.
- Toss and mix well.
- Then add sweet tamarind chutney and lemon juice.
- Toss and mix everything very well, so that the chutney, spice powders and lemon juice is evenly coated on the fried potatoes.
- Place the aloo chaat in a serving bowl. While serving you can garnish with some pomegranate arils. You can also garnish with sev if you want.
- Serve aloo chaat as an evening snack or a starter snack.
Nutrition
Calories: 160kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 2gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 66mgPotassium: 377mgFiber: 3gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 190IUVitamin C: 13.6mgCalcium: 33mgIron: 3.2mg
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