Chana-Aloo Chat / Chickpeas-Potato Salad

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! 🙂   

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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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.
  

  

• 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!!
  

  

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.

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

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

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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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