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Chana-Aloo Chat / Chickpeas-Potato Salad

Homemade, protein rich, appetiser, snack, Indian style salad / chat, party, street food with easily available ingredients.

Recipe Cooked, Photographed and Written by Praveena

PrepTime:5 mins   MixTime:10 mins   Cuisine:Indian

Chana (chickpeas) and Aloo (potato) chat is an Indian version of salad with a touch of Indian masala.

This, Chana Aloo Chat / Chickpeas Potato salad, is rich in Protein from the chickpeas, has Carbohydrates from the Potatoes and has essential nutrients from herbs we added. Its a perfect dish suitable for salad, as s starter, or as a snack too. Or In fact its perfect as a filling for any bread, just like we had. 🙂 

I even happily make this in the mornings for my kids lunch boxes. Of course, I do get the chickpeas soaked the previous day itself. My children are very much pleased with this salad. While my hubby loved it as a filling with the flat-bread (pic below). 

You can just play with the ingredients in this recipe. Ya, any salad gives such flexibility, right! Try my version of this PERFECTLY healthy salad! 🙂   

Chickpeas-Potato Salad as a filling in seeded Flat breads

Before starting to cook, don’t forget to see the Tips mentioned at the end.

I already have a post on how to soak, boil and get chickpea sprouts, link here : Sprouts

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Related Posts 

  1. Chickpea Sprouts – Mango Salad
  2. Thalimpu Senagala / Chana Tadka / Seasoned Chickpeas
  3. Indian Masala Sandwich

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Ingredients:

  • Boiled Potatoes – 2 (medium size)
  • Chick peas/ Chana / Senagalu – – 2 cups (boiled)
  • Coriander/ Kothimeera – 4-5 twigs
  • Mint/ Pudina – 1 fistful of leaves
  • Salad Tomatoes – 12
  • Onion – 1 
  • Ginger – 1 inch piece
  • Green Chillies – 2
  • Lemon Slices – 2
  • Sev/ Crushed Crisps – 2 tablespoons
  • Cream/ Greek Yogurt/ Plain Curd – 2 tablespoons (optional)

Ingredients for dressing:

  • Tomato Sauce/Ketchup –  2 tablespoons
  • Tamarind Sauce/ Sweet&Sour Sauce – 2 tablespoons
  • Lemon Juice – 2 tablespoons
  • Olive Oil – 2 tablespoons
  • Red Chilli Powder/ Kaaram/ Paprika – ½ teaspoon
  • Dried Herb Mix – ½ teaspoon
  • Indian Chat Masala/ Curry Masala – ½ teaspoon
  • Salt – as per taste

Special Ingredients:

  • Sev/ Crushed Crisps
  • Mint/ Pudina
  • Coriander/ Koththimeera
  • Tamarind Sauce/ Sweet & Sour Sauce
  • Lemon

Step wise pics Procedure ‘Chana aloo chat / Chickpeas potato salad’:

  • Firstly, get all the veggies finely chopped.
    Veggies chopped for the salad
  • Take the boiled potatoes and gently cut them into bite size cubes.
  • Take the cubed potato pieces and chickpeas into a wide mixing bowl.
  • Add all the ‘Ingredients for dressing’.
  • Just give a gentle mix, that the spices and sauces are well coated to the chickpeas and potatoes.
  • Next, transfer all the chopped vegetables into the same bowl.
  • Using 2 spoons in both the hands, very gently fold in everything.
  • Top it up with the Sev/ Crushed Crisps as in pic below.
  • Optionally, while serving this salad just smear some fresh cream/ plain yogurt on the top. Done!!
    Chana-Aloo Chat/ Salad ready to be served

Tips:

  • You can use black chickpeas (or) chickpea sprouts in this recipe.
  • Adjust the salt and spice as per your taste.
  • You can replace potatoes with any other vegetable or eliminate them.
  • This is quite a filling salad recipe, very much suitable as a starter for any party, platter.
  • Instead of dry herbs mix which I added, better to add any other fresh herbs.
  • Vegans can just eliminate the cream in the recipe.
  • This, Chana aloo chat / chickpeas potato salad, can be chilled in refrigerator and served, especially in summers.
  • It stays good up to a week when refrigerated.

Result:

  • The taste of this, Chana aloo chat / chickpeas potato salad, is tangy and sweet, while the texture is crunchy and soft.
  • We had them just like a salad, part of our meal.
  • And on the next day we had them as a filling, for the seeded flat bread. It was just yummilicious.
chana aloo chat / chickpeas salad
Chickpeas-Potato Salad served in wide bowls
chana aloo chat / chickpeas potato salad
Chickpeas-Potato Salad as a filling in seeded Flat breads

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Chana – Aloo Chat / Chickpeas – Potato Salad (Indian Version)

VegCookBook by Praveena
Homemade, protein rich, appetiser, snack, Indian style salad / chat, party, street food with easily available ingredients.
Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 15 mins
Course Appetizer, Salad, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
  

Salad Ingredients

  • 2 count Potatoes (medium size) (boiled)
  • 2 cups Chickpeas/Chana/Senagalu (boiled)
  • 4 to 5 twigs Fresh Coriander/ Kothimeera
  • 1 fistful Mint / Puthina
  • 12 count Salad Tomatoes
  • 1 count Onion
  • 1 inch piece Ginger
  • 2 count Green Chillies
  • 2 count Lemon Slices
  • 2 tablespoons Crushed Crisps / Sev
  • 2 tablespoons Greek Yogurt/Curd / Cream (optional)

Ingredients for Dressing

  • 2 tablespoon Tomato Ketchup / Sauce
  • 2 tablespoon Tamarind sauce / Sweet & Sour Sauce
  • 2 tablespoon Lemon Juice
  • 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
  • ½ teaspoon Red Chilli Powder/ Smoked Paprika
  • ½ teaspoon Dry Herb mix
  • ½ teaspoon Indian Chat Masala / Curry Masala
  • as per taste salt

Instructions
 

  • Firstly, get all the veggies finely chopped
  • Take the boiled potatoes and gently cut them into bite size cubes.
  • Now, take the cubed potato pieces and chickpeas into a wide mixing bowl and add all the ‘Ingredients for dressing’.
  • Just give a gentle mix, that the spices and sauces are well coated to the chickpeas and potatoes.
  • Next, transfer all the chopped vegetables into the same bowl.
  • Using 2 spoons in both the hands, very gently fold in everything.
  • Top it up with the Sev / Crushed Crisps.
  • Optionally, while serving this salad just smear some fresh cream/ plain yogurt on the top. Done!!

Notes

Please see the MAIN POST for step wise pics & TIPS!
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